Upgrading forge and gradle about vsminecraft

[brezeeger]

OK, I figured it out. It's not completely straightforward - especially to a new mod maker. I'll try to make a step-by-step solution. Throughout this, I did a number of compiles, and closed/reopened visual studio (though closing the solution and reopening probably would've also worked).

Step 1) Back it all up. Just in case.

Step 2) Download the desired forge-version-mdk.zip file. Extract it somewhere safe. When you rebuild, it will probably download this all again, but it may yell at you because of gradle being a different version.

Step 3) Replace the gradlew and gradlew.bat in your solution directory with the gradlew and gradlew.bat from the forge src zip file.

Step 4) In your solution directory, there is the gradle directory leading to the gradle-wrapper.jar and gradle-wrapper.properties. Replace those with the equivalents in the downloaded forge src zip file.

Step 5) In the build.gradle file: change
mavenCentral() to jcenter()

classpath 'net.minecraftforge.gradle:ForgeGradle:1.2-SNAPSHOT'
to
classpath 'net.minecraftforge.gradle:ForgeGradle:2.0-SNAPSHOT'

apply plugin: 'forge'
to
apply plugin: 'net.minecraftforge.gradle.forge'

version = "1.8-11.14.1.1357" to version = "1.8-11.14.4.1563"

Step 6) Go to your ProjectName.javaproc file. Look for all instances of 1.8-11.14.1.1357 and replace them with the forge version of your choice. Two JarReference tags, one Content tag, and MinecraftForgeVersion at the top. Note, these can not necessarily be edited in Visual Studio. In particular, the reference leading to GradleStart...

Step 7) Do the same thing as step 6 in the .classpath file. On compile, one of these may generate the other, but I don't know which way it goes.

Step 8) Same thing again, except for classpath.vs.build.xml

Step 9) Same thing again, except the .project file.

I believe steps 6-9 will properly update the 'references' code section in the solution.

Step 9) Copy the forge-version-mdk.zip file, and paste it into project/packages/com.microsoft.minecraftmod.0.5.4.0/tools and then replace the 'mdk' with 'src'

Step 10) In the solution - the .gradle folder. Add the 2.7 folder (or whichever newer version of gradle you are using) to the project, and exclude the 2.0 folder from the project (assuming gradle is updated). This may require an attempted clean/rebuild to create this folder.

Step 11) It may be necessary to copy the eclipse folder from the forge zip and replace the eclipse folder in your solution.

Step 12) Clean solution/project and rebuild.

I believe this is everything I did, and it works on my end. However, I may have missed a step. There was a lot of flailing as I've never worked with Java or gradle before. Basically, it is just a matter of replacing old files with new files, updating the build.gradle file, and catching all references to the old stuff and replacing it with the new. Best of luck!