Minecraft Modding 101: Creating Your First Custom Mod

Minecraft Modding 101: Creating Your First Custom Mod

Executive Summary

Minecraft modding is a fun and rewarding way to customize your gameplay experience. This guide will walk you beginners through the basics of Minecraft modding, from setting up your development environment to creating and publishing your own mods.

Introduction

Minecraft is a sandbox video game that allows players to build with a variety of blocks in a 3D procedurally generated world. The game has a large and active modding community, which has created thousands of mods that add new content, features, and functionality to the game.

Getting Started

The first step to Minecraft modding is to set up your development environment. This includes installing the Java Development Kit (JDK), Minecraft Forge, and a text editor or IDE.

Once you have your development environment set up, you can start creating your first mod. The basic structure of a Minecraft mod is a Java class that extends the MinecraftForge class. In this class, you can define new items, blocks, entities, and other game objects.

Subtopics

1. Installing the Necessary Software

• Step 1: Install Java SE Development Kit (JDK) for your Operating System.
• Step 2: Get Minecraft Forge and run as administrator to install the necessary files.
• Step 3: Install an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), like IntelliJ or Eclipse.
• Step 4: Find Minecraft’s root directory appdata.minecraft.
• Step 5: Create a “mods” folder within the root directory.

2. Creating Your First Mod

• Step 1: Create a new Java class within your IDE.
• Step 2: Extend MinecraftForge within the new Java class file you created.
• Step 3: Add an @Mod annotation including your unique mod id inside your class.
• Step 4: Have fun and be creative with the code within your mod to alter or create something new.

3. Registering Items and Blocks

• Step 1: To add a custom item in Minecraft, extend Item.
• Step 2: To add a custom block, create a new class extending Block.
• Step 3: Use the Minecraft Forge’s Registry Events to register your item and/or block.
• Step 4: Provide three items, “modid”, “name”, and “registry” when registering items and blocks.

4. Modifying the World Generation

• Step 1: To customize world generation in the game, understand how biomes generate terrain.
• Step 2: Using ForgeRegistry’s addGeneration method to add new biome variations.
• Step 3: Register a biome’s dimension category, including flat or nether.
• Step 4: Define biome generation for surface, vegetation, and temperature.

5. Creating a Custom GUI

• Step 1: Implement 1.14 Forge GUI style using the ISupplier inferface.
• Step 2: Implement IForgeRegistry to instantiate GUI in Minecraft forge.
• Step 3: Obtain GUI dimensions (width & height) in calculateGuiSize.
• Step 4: Initialize GUI with Mod Screen name, global position, custom GUI width & height.
• Step 5: Position GUI location on screen inside drawGuiContainerBackgroundLayer.
• Step 6: Define GUI behavior, component positions, and text.

Conclusion

In this guide, we have covered the basics of Minecraft modding. By following the steps in this guide, you can create your own custom mods and share them with the world.