Sams Teach Yourself Minecraft Mod Development in 24 Hours

Sams Teach Yourself Minecraft Mod Development in 24 Hours

<b>In Full Color!</b> <br>In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, <i>Sams Teach Yourself Minecraft Mod Development in 24 Hours</i> 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!<br> <br> <b>Step-by-step instructions</b> carefully walk you through the most common Minecraft mod development tasks.<br> <b>Quizzes and exercises</b> at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.<br> <b>Notes</b> present interesting information related to the discussion.<br> <b>Tips</b> offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks.<br> <b>Cautions</b> alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.<br> <br>Learn how to...<br> <ul> <li>Set up the environment where you€ll write your mod</li> <li>Create the basics for your mod with the Forge API</li> <li>Establish a framework that makes it easier to build complex mods</li> <li>Work with recipes and other small modifications</li> <li>Create multiple recipes, items, blocks, and entities at once</li> <li>Cook up food items that heal your players</li> <li>Make custom pickaxes, shovels, and completely original tools</li> <li>Use Tile Entities to create complex and unique mods</li> <li>Create interesting custom armor for players</li> <li>Generate entire worlds, including ores and plants</li> <li>Design and generate new structures with MCEdit</li> <li>Understand Entities and create Entity Models with Techne</li> <li>Code mobs with a custom Entity Model </li> <li>Manufacture Throwables</li> <li>Edit Minecraft functionality without breaking other mods</li> <li>Structure, package, and release your mod</li> <li>Master Java programming techniques you can use far beyond Minecraft</li> </ul> This book was not created by and is not endorsed by Notch Development AB Corporation/Mojang Synergies AB Corporation.