Minecraft™ Mod Development in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself

Hour 14. Generating Plants

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

Creating a custom WorldGen class

Adding code to SamEventHandler

In Hour 11, “Making Your Blocks Unique,” you created a plant. However, unless you somehow get seeds to the player, the plant can’t be used. It is quite common for plants to be generated in the world, such as cacti, grass, and flowers in vanilla Minecraft. To do this, you need a WorldGen class just like was used in Hour 13, “Generating Ores,” to spawn the ores in the world. The only difference is that this time you must make ...