Universal Adaptive Backport — Changelog

Forge 1.12.2 Port — Initial Development Release

Multiversion Support

• Reorganized UAB into a multiversion project with independent Forge 1.7.10 and 1.12.2 targets.
• Ported the existing content and gameplay systems to native Forge 1.12.2 implementations.
• Added shared feature configuration, build automation, update metadata, and compatibility checks.
• Added server-client configuration synchronization and mismatch detection.

Blocks, Items & Crafting

• Ported modern building blocks, wood families, decorative variants, and crafting recipes.
• Added functional barrels, smokers, blast furnaces, stonecutters, looms, cartography tables, composters, and smithing tables.
• Implemented modern smithing templates, armor trims, equipment upgrades, and associated loot.
• Added deepslate ores, raw ore drops, amethyst geodes, copper oxidation, and modern resource generation.
• Added archaeology, decorated pots, suspicious blocks, ancient crops, and modern loot.
• Ported modern boats, chest boats, bamboo rafts, signs, shulker boxes, and optional storage upgrades.

Mobs & Gameplay

• Ported modern aquatic, Nether, overworld, and hostile mobs with their respective AI, spawning, interactions, and rendering.
• Added dolphins, turtles, axolotls, frogs, bees, foxes, goats, piglins, hoglins, striders, sniffers, allays, wardens, breezes, and numerous additional creatures.
• Added modern mob equipment, breeding mechanics, bucket capture, status effects, and specialized behaviors.
• Implemented modern crossbow mechanics, tridents, wolf armor, wind charges, and related enchantments.
• Added village raids, Trial Spawners, vaults, and finite encounter systems.

World Generation & Structures

• Added modern ocean, Nether, and surface biomes with their vegetation and environmental features.
• Ported coral reefs, kelp, bamboo, mangroves, cherry trees, pale oaks, moss, and additional vegetation.
• Implemented deepslate layers, amethyst geodes, underwater ruins, shipwrecks, and buried treasure.
• Added bastions, pillager outposts, Ancient Cities, trail ruins, and Trial Chambers.
• Added persistent structure generation, loot protection, and safeguards against unwanted chunk loading.

Visuals, Audio & Quality of Life

• Ported modern block models, entity renderers, animations, and item appearances.
• Added configurable lighting improvements, End sky effects, Nether ambience, particles, and environmental sounds.
• Added modern music discs, note-block instruments, and jukebox functionality.
• Implemented the F3/F4 gamemode selector, updated loading displays, and additional client preferences.
• Added modern movement adjustments, item buoyancy, sleeping percentages, and numerous vanilla behavior improvements.

Compatibility & Stability

• Added optional Iron Chests and Baubles integrations.
• Improved interoperability with modded ores, inventories, flowers, crops, and world generation.
• Preserved native Forge events, permissions, inventory data, and existing world identities wherever applicable.
• Fixed crashes involving aquatic fluids, raw ore harvesting, and invalid item drops.
• Improved entity population limits, chunk-safe generation, rendering compatibility, and inventory synchronization.
• Corrected feature attribution and migrated legacy configuration settings without discarding user preferences.

Note: Forge 1.12.2 support remains a development port. Additional testing, compatibility fixes, and feature validation are still required before it reaches parity with the maintained Forge 1.7.10 version.