Old modder new forge

[rogue-agent]

Hello,

my name is Thomas, you can call me that. I'm wondering about a lot the changes that have happened during my down time.

 

I'm currently working at Wooden3 studies(we have nothing to go public with yet) and I started to gain interest in continuing the development of my mod NeXTech which is still at 1.7.10 because I never saw a reason to update to newer versions.

Now I find myself in a crofuffle because the Java version doesn't work with the Gradle version and the Java version with the Intellij. Updating gradle doesn't help and well I could probably setup a VM with all the old versions but finding the old versions will also be huge pain in the ass.

 

I thought of starting my development on the mod on 1.15.2 but the tutorial on setting up intellij idea for development loses its support for that.

Could anyone point anywhere, because I have no plan right now how to pick up my pieces and continue developing.

 

One more thing. I'm also interested in developing for older versions as they still are used and popular like 1.6.4, 1.5.2, 1.2.5 and b1.7.3

Happy easter and best regards

Thomas

Edited April 12, 2020 by rogue-agent

[_Cruelar_]

Which IntelliJ version are you using as I had some issues with Gradle and IntelliJ today as well with 1.12 Forge though?

Also before modderators hop in and tell me don't hijack other people's posts, I was able to fix my issue by using an older version of IntelliJ again (sweet old 2017.3 I used before updating, 2017.3 doesn't work well with 1.14 though. Just something to note)

Edited April 12, 2020 by _Cruelar_

[rogue-agent]

  On 4/12/2020 at 2:11 PM, _Cruelar_ said:

Which IntelliJ version are you using as I had some issues with Gradle and IntelliJ today as well with 1.12 Forge though?

Also before modderators hop in and tell me don't hijack other people's posts, I was able to fix my issue by using an older version of IntelliJ again (sweet old 2017.3 I used before updating, 2017.3 doesn't work well with 1.14 though. Just something to note)

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Hey,

I'm using the newest community version as our company is still deciding on getting the enterprise version.

[DaemonUmbra]

For modern versions SDW no longer exists, you just import the build.gradle as a project and intellij does the work that SDW used to do during the import.

[rogue-agent]

  On 4/12/2020 at 5:24 PM, DaemonUmbra said:

For modern versions SDW no longer exists, you just import the build.gradle as a project and intellij does the work that SDW used to do during the import.

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So everything is setup and ready? It feels weird because the minecraft files used to be easier to find... and what about setupIntellij runs?

 

Edit:

I'm being silly, I generated the runs and ran mc now everything looks fine.

Edited April 13, 2020 by rogue-agent

[rogue-agent]

So what about the older versions of minecraft, are you leaving them dead in the water?

Edited April 14, 2020 by rogue-agent

[Ugdhar]

  On 4/14/2020 at 7:26 AM, rogue-agent said:

So what about the older versions of minecraft, are you leaving them dead in the water?

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They are still available, and as far as I know can be made to work.

However no support is given for versions below 1.14.4, moderators lock threads and request the user upgrade if they wish to receive support. So development of anything < 1.14.4 and the dev is on their own, or free to look for support outside of forge's channels.

[rogue-agent]

  On 4/14/2020 at 9:43 AM, Ugdhar said:

They are still available, and as far as I know can be made to work.

However no support is given for versions below 1.14.4, moderators lock threads and request the user upgrade if they wish to receive support. So development of anything < 1.14.4 and the dev is on their own, or free to look for support outside of forge's channels.

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I can understand that the dev team probably is not the biggest and living of ad revenue and donations probably requires a second job to make everything work, and the team is probably not even like 15 people or so. But still it feels very corporate like. And I would like to hear a dev on this rather than a community moderator because the information is a different per point of view.

But I was not asking for support for older versions, more that I wanted to know the old specs, what java versions and so on I need to use, they only have that information if nobody has uploaded anything.

Edited April 14, 2020 by rogue-agent

[Ugdhar]

Have you read the LTS link at the top of every page? That's from the devs on the subject.

[rogue-agent]

I don't know the abbriviation for LTS so I thought that was just a error message people were getting like back in the years when they had messages like that. I'll read it , thanks for the hint!

[rogue-agent]

Is there an archive of blog posts? I'd like to go thru them and check what happened back in 2014 because I'm gonna probably continue with the 1.7.10 modding. It just is my favourite update.

[Ugdhar]

  On 4/16/2020 at 9:31 AM, rogue-agent said:

Is there an archive of blog posts? I'd like to go thru them and check what happened back in 2014 because I'm gonna probably continue with the 1.7.10 modding. It just is my favourite update.

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If I were going to dev for unsupported versions, I would probably just use google/forum search. Support requests here (not sure if that includes "is there an archive for xxx outdated version?") for old versions get locked by moderators.

[rogue-agent]

I was not asking for older versions as they are all in files.minecraftforge.net but for the archived blog posts.

[Ugdhar]

  On 4/16/2020 at 10:10 AM, rogue-agent said:

archived blog posts

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Which blog are you speaking of? Do you mean the forums? I searched "1.7.10" and got posts going back to 2012. Anything beyond that you'd have to search the web I'd imagine. Good luck to you!

[rogue-agent]

I meant the news posts. They might contain more information on the java versions and intellij and so on. But Thanks will check that out.