1.7.x

I see you had a huge pull request for everything i have and then some but i've been trying to get into some MC development, and this is a mod i very much wanted to see updated to 1.7.10 for use on my server as well as just to do get into the swing of things as well as do some some educational vids eventually... so, here's my push just since I did the work and, anyway, maybe you can judge whether you could use my help on anything where I wouldn't be stepping on your toes, or perhaps even find anything of use. 

note: I knew that this was very possibly going to overlap your stuff and in fact grabbed the source after the last big push, but I figured anything I could do to start getting the hang of it wouldn't be wasted, and, indeed, just seeing that it wasn't that hard to get into it, and that in a day I could get this done made me psyched to do even more. :).  also, note: I apologize for the triple commit there, it was actually one commit, an attempted revert because I pushed with the wrong user ID, followed by a merge; if you can point me towards getting it into a single commit I'd be happy to do so, although at this point I doubt you'll need it so I think I prefer to get a little sleep. :)