How can I circumvent the block on the gradle versions prior to 4.3?

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I’m trying to build a minecraft mod to add to a modpack running on Minacraft 1.6.4. For that, I’m using an old version of forge, which runs on Gradle 1.8. However, when I try to sync the project, it says that I need at least Gradle 4.3, which would be fair, if Forge didn’t have breaking changes between every versions.

I’m thus forced to find a way to make it work with Gradle 1.8.

Any ideas?

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As you speack about “sync”, I guess you talk about the IDE.
If your IDE only supports Gradle 4.3+, then you cannot “circumvent” that.
You can only either use an older verison of the IDE that still supports the ancient Gradle version you want to used,
or not try to sync the Gradle project.
You can either just set up the project manually in the IDE, or use the idea or eclipse plugin to generate project files that you then open in the IDE, without doing a proper sync.