It was recently requested of me to update my Minecraft mod Cooperative Advancements to version 1.15.2, which actually surprised me a bit--I didn't think anyone really used the mod. I hadn't touched that code since I originally wrote it, and I found that there was a bit of a painful re-learning process to get it to build. I had to wrangle lots of different error messages (I prefer using Visual Studio Code, which still is not fully supported by Forge to this day), but I eventually got the mod building properly in it's original state. After that point it was smooth sailing porting it to both 1.15.2 and 1.16.5.

I wrote the mod originally for personal usage in custom mod packs, where there were huge collections of advancements that are daunting alone but make for a fun cooperative experience once you can work together with friends to work at them. For those of you reading that use the mod, I hope you enjoy using it in more modern Minecraft modpacks! Check out the new versions at CurseForge here.

Just a quick update to talk about a small mod I wrote for Minecraft 1.14, Cooperative Advancements.

In my spare time, I have been playing Minecraft with the Valhelsia modpack, but I found that having separate advancement progress between players was a regression from other modpacks I've played in the past. Having multiple players on the server be able to work towards a common goal of completing advancements is pretty fun! In older versions of Minecraft, the Together Forever mod could be used to synchronize advancements, but this mod has not yet been updated to the latest version. I decided to write a quick mod (my first time doing so), that helps share advancement progress for all players on a server. It's seriously simple--took me about an hour to throw together, and you can check it out here, if you're interested.

Currently, the mod simply grants an advancement to each player on the server whenever someone earns one. It also synchronizes all player advancements whenever someone logs in. Currently, it does not synchronize advancement progress between players, but that is a potential future feature.