1.7.10 Fossils & Archaeology fail on load - SOLUTION
I am still playing Minecraft a few evenings a week, and hour or two here and there, but I'm months behind in posting the adventures and game logs here. I wanted to do a quick post to explain how I solved an issue that was keeping an old world from loading. If you have a 1.7.10 modded world using the Fossils and Archaeology mod, and your world stopped working after August 2024, this might help you. The error I was getting was "Fatal errors were detected during the transition from CONSTRUCTING to PREINITIALIZATION." This was frustratingly vague, giving no clue about which actual mod was causing the issue. I tried to visit one of my worlds that loaded fine last summer and now it fails during startup. Anne & I put a lot of work into that world when I was hosting it on Scalacube for most of 2023. I didn't want to lose the whole thing. With some online answers I was able to track it down to this: Llibrary v1.5.2 It sounds like this mod, which is requir...
