Suggestion #3792

I'v been told that the skyblock servers are ran on 1.8, im assuming that goes for every server.
I'd like to suggest to a newer version of minecraft, such as 1.13 or 1.14.
Reason being is that 1.8 is restricting me from building cool and efficient things on skyblock. [No observers, blocks spawn above water once touched with lava etc]
I'm not sure how hard this would be to do but please take it into consideration.