Alas poor (insert mod name here), I knew it well...

[Airoch4]

I was just lamenting the loss of some of my favorite mods from the Technic pack in the past iterations. I am jazzed beyond telling at the inclusion of Thaumcraft 2, and I'm happy to see a lot of my favorite mods are still around and kicking, but just the same...

When I first stumbled upon Technic, it was at version 5.9... or somesuch. It had at a stable (enough) state the Zeppelin, Millenaire, the old EE, and there was still wiggle room enough to go in there and add Power Converters myself with the proper tweaking.

I had spawned next to a house in a forest, full of bandits who attacked immediately, who I dispatched and knocked out the wall in their basement for instant loot and instant base. I tunneled and cleared out massive spaces underground to store water for my Buildcraft machines, built a Zeppelin with things in the right spot so that I could pop out a block in the bottom to lower a pipe to pump oil and drill for resources, and carry it all back and run the pumps to pull it all down into my subterranean base. I would fly over Millenaire villages and drill right through the roofs to find minerals if I wanted to.

I was around for when the launcher came out, and I was totally excited for the increase in stability and modularity it promised. But I missed my zeppelins.

Then come time the Millenaire mod was dropped. Now I couldn't even torment my pathetic nearby neighbors... or, you know, help them or whatever.

This all got me thinking... Where was the notification for these mods getting dropped? Did I miss the memo? Was there something somewhere that said why they were not in anymore?

This is more for my own curiosity and nostalgia than anything else. I really enjoy the Technic Pack as it is today, and I know I can load up the old version just fine.

But if anybody knows where I can find the message, on a board or email or youtube video anywhere that explains why these were dropped, I'd have some closure and be thankful.

[racingpro]

Zeppelins was buggy as hell and didn't play nice with just about any other mods. Millenaire was very lag inducing for a lot and thus was removed. Millenaire can still be added back in to the latest 1.2.5 version, and zeppelins may be able to be added to.

/Closure

[MechaCrash]

Most of the time, if a mod is dropped, it's because it's either no longer being updated, or wildly unstable. I know Millenaire was dropped due to instability, at least, but not the others. Before we got 4096 block IDs working, there was also the chance that a mod would be dropped because it was redundant with another mod and the space was needed for something different.

I don't know if the changelog lists the why of a mod's removal, but it does list it, I think.

[bwillb]

Then come time the Millenaire mod was dropped. Now I couldn't even torment my pathetic nearby neighbors... or, you know, help them or whatever.

This all got me thinking... Where was the notification for these mods getting dropped? Did I miss the memo? Was there something somewhere that said why they were not in anymore?

The warning was all over the forum for the several weeks that Technic 7 was in dev version only.

Major mods that were removed and why:

Millenaire: Lag. can still be added manually just fine if your PC can handle it.

Better Dungeons: Lag. can still be added manually just fine if your PC can handle it.

Forestry: Mod author threw a fit about it being in the pack and added malicious code. Malicious code is no longer active. Can be added manually just fine.

Zepplins: Very buggy and unstable. can still be added manually, but is also still buggy and unstable.

BetterThanWolves: Not compatible with Forge. Will never be compatible with Forge. Cannot be added manually with any measurable amount of success.

[Airoch4]

/golfclap racingpro, MechaCrash, bwillb; thanks for the posts guys

Forestry: Mod author threw a fit about it being in the pack and added malicious code. Malicious code is no longer active. Can be added manually just fine.

LOL amazing!