Missing dependency message variants for [Wrong version], [Forge], and [Multiple errors]

[robijnvogel]

I'd like to know your thoughts on the following matter, so please don't hesitate to speak your mind:

I really like this Forge feature, where it shows you an error screen after mod loading phase 1/7 if one of your mods is missing a dependency.

There are a few things, however, that I think this message is missing, and two of these are demonstrated by the linked screenshot.

1. Version: If you have a version of the missing dependency mod installed, but the version number is too low, this does not get relayed to the user via this screen. A custom message for this situation would help.
2. Forge: If it is your Forge version that is outdated, this screen tells you that the a certain version of the "forge mod" is not installed. The average Minecraft user knows Minecraft Forge as a mod-loader, not as a mod. This may cause confusion and from my experience it does confuse many. A custom message for this situation would help as well and it wouldn't be bad to state that Minecraft Forge is outdated as well. Even including a link to files.minecraftforge.net in the message would not be a bad idea, I think.
3. Multiple: If you are missing multiple dependencies, which, if you build quite massive modpacks like I do from time to time, could happen regularly, this screen only shows you the first missing dependency. You'd have to restart Minecraft including this dependency to get an error for the second missing dependency. And so on...
   Especially when you are building a large modpack, this can rob you of quite a lot of valuable time. This is why I'd suggest trying to show all missing dependencies instead of just the first one that happened to come up.

 

Some other thoughts regarding multiple missing dependencies:

• There are simply too many mods with dependencies to remember all of them by heart. Even if you remember some of them, when building a pack of 60+ mods, it's guaranteed that you forget some dependencies, unless you have some super brain.
• The percentage of mods that actually have dependencies that you forget about, doesn't make it worth your time to check dependencies for every mod you download from CurseForge.
• The Curse launcher is an abomination and should be forbidden. #MultiMCGroupie

If someone could add links to this thread to the lines of code on Github that deal with the creation of this error message, it may be possible for me to create a pull request.

So what do you think, do these sound like a good idea?
In your reactions, please stick to the numbering I used in this post.