Jakj recently posted a thread where he mentioned news that Forge and Bukkit were becoming mutually exclusive, this chap is pointing out that someone has created a build of Forge which is compatible with Bukkit for 1.4.2
I'll continue to get more and more out of date because the merge between SSP and SMP rendered Minecraft unplayable on my PC.
Because fuck yeah, totally unnecessary features that make the game unplayable.
I haven't explored very far out of the desert, but I can get all the rubber I need for now from the jungle anyway, just hack down a rubberwood tree and feed it into a sawmill.
Shitlord is a very nice seed, spawned me in a jungle, desert to the north, hills to the south and snow plains to the east. So all the biomes you could ever want.