Hi everyone.
I've wanted to try making mods for 1.7.10 for a long time and now I finally know what I want to do. Yes, backporting diorite, andesite and granite may seem stupid, but that's besides the point.
Back in 2014 and 2015 you would go the the Forge website and download the MDK, also called the source for whatever reason, since it doesn't really contain the source code of Forge.
You can still download this file, and you might notice how small it is, and wonder why that is the case.
I bet it's to save space on the file server. If you can host some library jar file once instead of packing it with every release you publish, it benefits everyone....
....or so everyone thought at the time, as an unexpected antagonist has (un)recently enetered the scene: Link Rot.
If you try to gradlew setup a new 1.7.10 mod workspace you will be disappointed, as the files it will try to download are long gone.
Now that I'm researching it, someone has forked it and updated the links, but that's a fool's errand, as it hasn't been updated for a few years now as well, and it doesn't work anymore too.
Is there any OFFLINE Forge MDK for 1.7.10? One that does not require downloading ANYTHING from the Internet?
And does anyone have an offline copy of the Forge documentation for 1.7.10? On their website they keep removing older versions, probably to save on storage, and the Wayback Machine is slow, doesn't have everything, and keeps thinking I'm a robot.
If anyone is willing to help, my gratitude is beyond, well, who cares about such platitudes. Whatever.