Book description
In Full Color!
In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, Sams Teach Yourself
Minecraft® Mod Development in 24 Hours will help you
transform Minecraft® into anything you can imagine--and share
your vision with millions of players worldwide! You’ll learn
all the mod development skills you need as you walk through a
complete step-by-step project, complete with a mob, new tools, new
armor, food, ores, and much more. Every lesson builds on what
you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation
for building any mod and creating any world!
Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the
most common Minecraft® mod development tasks.
Quizzes and exercises at the end of each chapter help you
test your knowledge.
Notes present interesting information related to the
discussion.
Tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform
tasks.
Cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice
on how to avoid them.
Learn how to...
Set up the environment where you’ll write your mod
Create the basics for your mod with the Forge API
Establish a framework that makes it easier to build complex mods
Work with recipes and other small modifications
Create multiple recipes, items, blocks, and entities at once
Cook up food items that heal your players
Make custom pickaxes, shovels, and completely original tools
Use Tile Entities to create complex and unique mods
Create interesting custom armor for players
Generate entire worlds, including ores and plants
Design and generate new structures with MCEdit
Understand Entities and create Entity Models with Techne
Code mobs with a custom Entity Model
Manufacture Throwables
Edit Minecraft® functionality without breaking other mods
Structure, package, and release your mod
Master Java programming techniques you can use far beyond Minecraft®
This book was not created by and is not endorsed by Notch Development AB Corporation/Mojang Synergies AB Corporation.
Table of contents
- About This eBook
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents at a Glance
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You!
- Reader Services
- Introduction
- Part I: Introduction
- Part II: Items
- Part III: Blocks
- Part IV: World Generation
- Part V: Entities
- Part VI: Final Pointers
- Appendix A. Additional Code Fragments
- Index
Product information
- Title: Minecraft™ Mod Development in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2014
- Publisher(s): Sams
- ISBN: 9780133900552
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