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Okay, so we have MCP setup and forge installed. So now we get to actually start modding! So lets start by going into our main MCP folder. once in our MCP folder we want to locate a folder called "src". Open that up. Inside that there should be a folder called "minecraft". Open that one up as well. Now inside this folder there should be a couple of files.(cpw, ibxm, net, paulscode, Etc...) Now we want to create a new folder in here and name it whatever you want! Such as your name or the name of your mod. In my case, I named my folder "Keegandoc". Once this is done, open up your newly created folder. Now we want to make another folder in here. This too can be named whatever you want. In my case, I named it "Tutorial". Once this is done we Have officially setup our mod package!

Now that we have our package made, we need to open up eclipse to actually start modding! If you open up eclipse for the first time, it might ask you to locate your workspace. The location of our workspace is going to be in a folder called "eclipse" in our main MCP folder. once eclipse builds our workspace, we should be ready to go! Now if you are new to eclipse you may have a little bit of trouble navigating but trust me, you will get used to it. Now, on your left hand side we want to go over to the "Project Browser". There should be a folder there called "mincraft". Click the little arrow next to it. Now it expanded! Its magic! (Not really) Once you have done that, open up the folder titled "src". Now this is where we are going to be doing most of our work. Now you need to look for the folder/package we created in our MCP/src/mincraft folder. In my case it is called "Keegandoc.Tutorial". Once you locate it, you want to right click it and go to "new" And then "class". A window should pop up. We dont want to mess with anything but the name of our new class. We want to name it something unique because its going to be our main mod class. In my case, I just named it "KeegandocMod". You can do something along the same lines as that. Now we have our main mod class! Time to add some code and make a item!

Now to make things easy for you, i'm just going to give you the src for all your mods! Or in english, I'm going to give you the code pre-written so all you have to do is copy+paste and rename things! Pretty easy, huh? So for our main mod class (The one we just created), the link to the src or code can be found here. Once you get there (It should be paste bin), copy all of the code and head back over to your main mod class. Delete all the code in there making it completely fresh and paste the code you copied into your main mod class. Now you should get a few errors but its okay, we're gonna fix them! lets start from the top, you should first notice that your package name at the top is wrong. So to fix this, just rename it to the package that you have. So if your package name was "Test.Tutorial", you would change Keegandoc.Tutorial to Test.Tutorial! Now scroll down a bit until you find where it says "Basic Needed Forge Stuff". Now where it says "@Mod(modid="KeegandocMod",name="Keegandoc's Mod",version="v1")" You want to change the KeegandocMod to your mods main class name. Then change Keegandoc's Mod to the name of your mod and change the v1 to whatever version your mod is on. Now scroll down a little bit more and find where it says " Public class KeegandocMod" and change KeegandocMod to the name of your mods main class name. Now you should have a few more errors. These errors are for the item we are creating. So lets get those into order shall we?

Okay so we have declared our mod and now its time to make our item! So in our main mod class you should have one error now. So lets go fix it! The error is the word ZincIngot underlined. The reason for this is because its not declared with its own class. So hover over the error and a little box should come up. You want to click on where it says "Create class 'ZincInngot'" Another box should appear. Just hit enter or click finish. Now we have a new class for our item! Now we need to set up the code for that class. The src can be found here. Delete any code in there and paste the new code in. Now we just have to rename a few things and we will officially have a item!