RIP: Forge Essentials

My Fellow Peoplez,

Today Shadow and I were attempting to experiment with Forge Essentials, to begin carrying out the second phase of our master plan.  Unfortunately, it hadn't occurred to anyone (including myself) to check to see if there was actually version of Forge Essentials for Minecraft 1.6.2.  Point of fact, there HAD been one for 1.6.4 since as early as a few weeks ago -- but this one has officially been pulled due to severe stability issues, which would make its usability for servers impractical.  To make matters worse, 1.6.2 had apparently been skipped entirely by the development team, and in fact the whole progress of the project in general looks suspect.

Ironically, our greatest achievement (updating to Gulliver for Minecraft 1.6.2) ended up being our greatest impediment to reviving this feature set for those who still remember it on Dravics. MCPC+ was considered and attempted, but definitely not an option due to how Gulliver Server needs to be installed (at this time).

However, all is not lost, as we DO have Forge, and we CAN have access to other comparable mods that can perhaps not replace, but certainly salvage as many server tools as possible, at least to get our player ranks enabled.

Over the next few days I will be testing out these server-side mods:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1893356-162-forge-hpermissions-forge-server-permission-mod/

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1835347-164-forge-server-tools/

If you have any other 1.6.2 server mods that can help recreate some Forge Essentials core mods (and could potentially be compatible with Gulliver), please let me know here or on the forums). Otherwise, we will do the best we can for now, and hope that a with a little patience, we can migrate to a better solution soon.

It will certainly help that the new Gulliver update will include an improved and non-destructive server installation method, one that may just give us another chance.at FE or MCPC+.