The modding API has been vaporware for so long it inspired a friendly roasting by the Yogscast - in the form of an animated cover of "Stop the Cavalry". https:

The modding API has been vaporware for so long it inspired a friendly roasting by the Yogscast - in the form of an animated cover of "Stop the Cavalry". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-zthYFjk6s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-zthYFjk6s Practically speaking, for some time now Forge has been the community-made SDK that has replaced. There are a handful of others, but a vast majority of mods use Forge. At this point, given how many mods are already written[1], it would probably be really hard to introduce an "official" API and/or SDK unless it has explicit support for Forge. [1] one probably-incomplete list: http://modlist.mcf.li/version/1.7.10 http://modlist.mcf.li/version/1.7.10 edit: It seems MS's devkit does have Forge support baked in. edit2: It's worth mentioning that Yogscast's "Where's the modding API" cover mentioned above was published on Dec 20, 2013.