I wasn’t exactly sure if this was where I should put this but I suppose it will work. Do you ever think a build of Sponge will be released for minecraft version 1.7.10?
No.
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No. 1.7.10 is several years old, it’s way past time to move on. Sponge is always growing and improving and supporting an outdated version would not only slow progress but also likely cause many other problems. We need to stop looking back at the past, sure 1.7.10 was very fun at its time but the newer Minecraft versions offer so many new opportunities and it keeps on growing.
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Back when sponge was being built. They would need stuff to show the makers of forge. So forge would change how mods worked. (So one could run server forge mods without the client).
This means there are some very unstable versions of sponge out there for 1.7.10 but like everyone is saying. Its not going to happen.
Sponge has a 3 tier path. There is “bleeding” which is experimental builds for the latest version of minecraft.
Then there is “stable” these are beta builds for the 2nd to latest minecraft version.
Ans last they have ‘dropping support soon’ (not sure what its actually called) where its the minecraft version before the stable one.
All of the sponge versions listed above still get maintenance and support. But thats about it. It only goes forward from there. Not backwards.
To give a more precise reasoning as to why 1.7.10 was never worked on:
At the time that Sponge started, Forge had not had support for vanilla clients on forge servers with forge mods that did NOT require a client mod to be installed (in which case, SpongeForge servers would HAVE to have at least forge installed) with Minecraft 1.7.10. In 1.8.0, Forge added vanilla client support, and that was the first version Sponge API was being built upon. Alongside the structural changes in Minecraft’s implementation that SpongeAPI was being designed around (some concepts such as BlockStates were only introduced in 1.8) could ONLY have been done with 1.8 and above.
Likewise, with the constant progression of development with Minecraft itself, we could not feasibly maintain newer features being added/changed to SpongeAPI when the project had just started off.
At this point, with all of the advances that we’ve made with Sponge’s API and implementation, it’s not feasible to "back port’ any of of the changes to 1.7.10, and maintaining such a version would drain the already limited time of the team.
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