Minecraft modding has been getting better - the long 1.7.10 generation helped a lot.<p>&gt; patching bytecode<p>There is a lot less patching bytecode going on now, and it is now handled by Forge.<p>&gt; unofficial APIs ... like Minecraft Forge<p>Unofficial APIs are what happen when nobody else provides them. It&#x27;s <i>far</i> too late for any &quot;official&quot; mod API that <i>isn&#x27;t</i> Forge, because the massive[1] amount of modding that already exists is just not going to be re-written.<p>The best thing that could happen would be to bless Forge as &quot;official&quot;.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bot.notenoughmods.com&#x2F;1.7.10.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bot.notenoughmods.com&#x2F;1.7.10.html</a>