Version 1.5.1 introduced wireless communication via modems, and the mod was ported to Minecraft 1.5. The release of version 1.42 for Minecraft 1.3.2 allowed printing on paper, and since version 1.45 advanced variants of blocks have become available. Since version 1.4, turtles have been able to interact with the "physical" world by mining and placing blocks and attacking with weapons.
In version 1.3.1 for Minecraft 1.2.3, monitor blocks were implemented and position determination through triangulation became possible. The mod was also based on the Forge modding framework since this version. On February 23, 2012, Ratcliffe released version 1.3, which contained turtles, a type of programmable robots. In version 1.2, the possibility to exchange software and data between computers with floppy drives, floppy disks and "redpower" network cables appeared. In the years that followed, Ratcliffe continued to update the mod to new Minecraft versions and over time, several features were added, such as the ability to communicate with the Internet via http in ComputerCraft version 1.1. On January 27, 2012, Ratcliffe posted a screenshot of the file host MediaFire's website, showing that the mod had been downloaded more than 100,000 times. On the same day, dozens of people responded enthusiastically to the forum post, and the mod quickly gained popularity. That same day, he created an account on the forum and posted about the mod he made for Minecraft 1.0, with a link to a website and wiki he created for the mod. On December 24, 2011, Daniel Ratcliffe uploaded a video to YouTube demonstrating how ComputerCraft works.