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I can address the first point, at least. Forge-equivalent wasn't meant to mean identical; I'd be absolutely delighted to see a better (that is, existent) API, it just needs to support about the same things. Which does not include coremod hackery.

And yes, you'd need to create a client mod. Sure, it's a compromise, but it'd still be an improvement over the current state of affairs.

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We're actually working on this, first with a rewrite of our item/block behavior system to be modular and moddable using lamdbas.

Then we will be adding a way for plugins to provide new textures in resource packs.

Once that's all done, we will create a client Forge mod to allow for plugins to add new blocks rather than reuse existing ones.

We also have a pretty nice modular system for AI tasks, but it needs more stress testing with a pathfinding implementation before we start finalizing the API for it.

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