Drop Legacy Support

Embrace progress, shed complexity, and thrive in the ecosystem—join the movement and drop legacy version support to ignite innovation.

✨ New features

By dropping support, you can use new features that Minecraft and the API offers. Notable additions include Boss Bars, titles, Display Entities, hex colors and much more.

By supporting archaic versions, you increase the complexity of your plugin. Not only are you forced to code different outcomes among different versions, but you will have to use significantly more NMS, which requires individual support for every patch.

1.8 is over 7 years old. Backwards compatability for 12 major versions is extremely painful.

♻ The ecosystem

Many APIs and integrations have already dropped support for older versions. Notable examples include the IntelliJ Minecraft plugin, CoreProtect and mcMMO.

You can take advantage of the plugin development ecosystem with compatability guarantees and interoperability with facilitating plugins, frameworks and integrations.

Due to the reduced community activity and limited features of older versions, the developer support network is not nearly as wide as that of newer versions.

🤐 The stigma

The 1.8 community is the loud minority. Many instill fear into developers through unfairly trashing and falsely reviewing plugins who don't support these ancient versions.

Do not be discouraged. Many users will thank you and welcome the new features and time you can dedicate to the non-dinosaurs.

The truth is that the 1.8 community is not as large as it used to be. As of 2023, 1.8.8 accounts for only 5.6% of total servers.

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Don't be part of the problem.

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