MC Forge Mod Dev Blog: Adding a Configuration GUI - 1.16 Version
The very first blog post for this series covered how I created a configuration GUI screen for a Minecraft Forge mod targeting Minecraft 1.14.4 and above, despite the fact that the related framework and library classes have been removed from Forge, and the core developers have decided that it should never be added back. I am extremely disappointed to see LexManos, the leader of Forge, harshly rejecting more than one year of hard work of @Cadiboo, the developer who started that linked pull request, with a willy-nilly closure of the pull request. This not only means another dissatisfaction of mine with the Minecraft Forge project but also my obligation to maintain an up-to-date method for creating a mod configuration screen. From my private communication with @yuesha-yc, a Minecraft mod developer who followed me on GitHub after reading my blogs and a current student of the high school I graduated from, I learned that my blog posts about a platform with extremely incomplete documentation can be very useful to developers of that platform. Thus, I will endeavor to share my knowledge about Minecraft Forge mod as before to the greatest possible extent. …