Posted September 19, 20178 yr (I assume) Since mods are built without any minecraft or forge code, do I only have to update my mod when newer versions break my code? Or do I have to release a new version with every forge update, or just with every minecraft update ? I haven't added dependencies for a specific forge or minecraft version in my code.
September 19, 20178 yr Usually every Minecraft update. Apparently I'm a complete and utter jerk and come to this forum just like to make fun of people, be confrontational, and make your personal life miserable. If you think this is the case, JUST REPORT ME. Otherwise you're just going to get reported when you reply to my posts and point it out, because odds are, I was trying to be nice. Exception: If you do not understand Java, I WILL NOT HELP YOU and your thread will get locked. DO NOT PM ME WITH PROBLEMS. No help will be given.
September 19, 20178 yr Well, it is very unlikely for a mod to not require an update, but it is possible. An easy way to prove you do need to update is to copy your mod source into a new folder, update the build.gradle to download the latest Forge version, create the updated workspace and IDE project and open in your IDE. If you see a bunch of errors then you need to update! Based on my experience, every Minecraft update requires source code update. Even little things like changing the packages, to fundamental things like moving to the block state system. But a very very simple mod, where the classes it references haven't moved, been renamed (including names of methods) and none of the method parameters have been changed, then you might get away with it. I have also found times where I've had to update during same MC version as Forge usually has an inital period of development for each MC version where things can change a bit. But I think they try as hard as they can not to break things within the same MC version, so it is rare. Check out my tutorials here: http://jabelarminecraft.blogspot.com/
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