In the same way that thexbear deviated from the official release of lemmy, minecraft mods will deviate you from the official release cycle of minecraft, and if you deviate too far (or one of your mods stops getting active development) then you get stuck in an old version with no way to upgrade due to dependence on custom/legacy code.
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Hexbear has, for this very reason, inadvertently vindicated my outright refusal to use Minecraft mods and only play vanilla.
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In the same way that thexbear deviated from the official release of lemmy, minecraft mods will deviate you from the official release cycle of minecraft, and if you deviate too far (or one of your mods stops getting active development) then you get stuck in an old version with no way to upgrade due to dependence on custom/legacy code.