I could have titled this post “The REAL Reason I Built This Place”, but that didn’t feel particularly subtle — or timeless. Regardless, there’s probably no faster way to date a blog than by writing a Minecraft modding tutorial. Minecraft is a game in constant motion: frequent, substantial updates tend to break mods between versions as the underlying systems and APIs shift dramatically. I suspect this is why most Minecraft modding tutorials are so incomplete, outdated, or cryptic — who wants to pour energy into extensive documentation when they’d have to re-write it every year just to keep up?
Still, that didn’t stop me from being inspired.
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