What version to choose?

[Grim1ight]

Hi! Before i modded only on 1.7.10, what minecraft version to choose now?

[Zerahi]

i went right to 1.10.2 from 1.7.10 most of the 1.8 -1.9 code applies so you can look at tutorials for them to get close, anything after 1.7.10 is a bit hard to find examples for but not impossible (github has a few) i'm fairly far into my complex mod i started a week ago

[SHsuperCM]

1.10.2 all day every day

[larsgerrits]

Always develop for the latest version available. There is no reason to stay behind on older versions.

[SHsuperCM]

Always develop for the latest version available. There is no reason to stay behind on older versions.

 

well there is the "stable version" versions that people do... these were 1.4.7,1.5.2,1.6.4,1.7.10 and the next one should be 1.10.2 from what i see...  unless mojang decides to release 1.11 or something... (or 1.12 since its microsoft and they like to skip versions )

[Ugdhar]

You'll only get forums help if you're using the latest Minecraft version, otherwise chances are any help requests will be met with "upgrade to 1.10.2, using 1.x.x you're on your own" (which makes sense, if everyone did that, everything would be current.)

[Ernio]

Umm... since when 1.8, 1.8.9 or 1.9 was "unstable"? #rhetorical

 

And yes - 1.10.x or nothing.

[SHsuperCM]

well, yes.. the actual modder support forums help people with latest versions more.. but the community decided that

1.4.7, 1.5.2, 1.6.4, 1.7.10 were the so called "stable versions" which made alot of mods for these versions... other versions are not "unstable" but you can see that there arent alot of mods of these versions... 

 

the "stable versions" are mods that go in big modpacks and such... you wont find someone using 1.8.3 to make a modpack and there arent alot of mods for that version.....

[Zerahi]

no the mod packs pick a version with a lot of mods and set it all up nice then wait for enough mods for a new pack, so make mods for current and be in the new packs =P

[Draco18s]

FWIW, a mod build on 1.9.4 will run on 1.10.2 and vice versa, unless it uses a feature introduced to Forge more recently.

99.99% of all mods work on both, so build your mod on 1.10.2