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Whelp I'm back here again, lol, I have been seeing a lot of people not really understanding some of the changes in 1.6, so I decided that I would shed some light on it. Considering I was also going to start some tutorials again since I have been wanting to, and have the time now that school is out, I figured that this would be the perfect time to abuse this. This time I will keep it going and have plans to keep it on a scheduled basis, I will be adding new tutorials every Monday, Wednesday, Friday. On Saturday I will also do a tutorial but I will do something a little different, I will pick a tutorial out of some suggestions that you offer, and will do that. Please, and I beg, don't spam the comments with suggestions instead PM me with them, I prefer to keep the comments full of solutions to peoples problems, or comments. I will also have a poll of things I would like to do at the top that you can vote on to see, and it will go to the top of my list of things to do. I also ask if you do read these tutorials, and are really determined to mod, make sure you follow the golden rule: "Learn java first before attempting to mod", it literally will save you a lot of time. Other rules suggestions will be below the tutorials. Bear in mind if something that has a slot but nothing in it, it means it is coming just give it time. I am working on my mod, as well as these tutorials, and my language.

Simple Mod Base:

Simple Block:

Simple Item:

Creative Tab:

Basic Custom Block Rendering (TESR / IIR):

Rules:

Misc:

Credits:

Nice to see you getting back into the tutorials Leah
And as I said in IRC, I will always be there for you no matter what, tis what friends do.
Good luck on the tutorials, some of these might help me with updating

Quote from MCE626

just a question, by custom rendering in the poll do you mean like custom shaped blocks? or is it mobs?

Whole section on items, mobs, blocks and entities.

Alright that should do it for today, I added:

• Simple Mod Base
• Simple Block
• Simple Item

Let me know if you like the format of the tutorials I figured GIthub Gists are good for this, if not I could always switch it around. These first few tutorials will probably be in multiples but later on it will start to dwindle down as they will get more complex and I don't have the time for them. But for now enjoy :D.

XD Vyax

Thank you for taking you're time to write tutorials again, there's a huge need for good quality tutorials and over saturation of crappy ones so it's great to you back! In my experience rendering tutorials are popularly requested. Also a general TileEntity tutorial could probably do as well, since many people seem to struggle with understanding them for some reason.
Beyond that getting a real tutorial to Core mods would be nice, although I considered figuring core mods out to be a nice bar for when you know programming so good that you can play with ASM and core mods

Anyways, welcome back!

Thank you

Excellent tutorials! I'm currently working on writing the underpinnings of my new mod, and this helped clear up some of the 1.6 differences. Pam, have you posted that on your thread? I'm sure that if you asked for update help there, one of your users could help. I of course understand why you wouldn't want to do that, but it's always an option.

Quote from MatrexsVigil

So, I'm trying to get my Weee! Flowers mod using tile entities for the sixteen flower crops.

I've managed to do everything except the crops don't show their textures and when broken, they drop nothing.

Any help you could give me with this would be fantastic. So many people are waiting for me to update! >.<

BlockPamFlowerCrop

package assets.pamweeeflowers;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Random;
import cpw.mods.fml.relauncher.Side;
import cpw.mods.fml.relauncher.SideOnly;
import net.minecraft.block.Block;
import net.minecraft.block.BlockFlower;
import net.minecraft.client.renderer.texture.IconRegister;
import net.minecraft.creativetab.CreativeTabs;
import net.minecraft.entity.player.EntityPlayer;
import net.minecraft.item.Item;
import net.minecraft.item.ItemStack;
import net.minecraft.tileentity.TileEntity;
import net.minecraft.tileentity.TileEntityFurnace;
import net.minecraft.util.AxisAlignedBB;
import net.minecraft.util.Icon;
import net.minecraft.util.MathHelper;
import net.minecraft.world.IBlockAccess;
import net.minecraft.world.World;
import net.minecraftforge.common.ForgeDirection;
public class BlockPamFlowerCrop extends BlockFlower
{

@SideOnly(Side.CLIENT)
public Icon[][] iconArray;

public String[] cropName = { "white", "orange", "magenta", "lightblue", "lime", "pink", "darkgrey", "lightgrey", "cyan", "purple", "blue", "brown", "black", "yellow", "red" };

	 protected BlockPamFlowerCrop(int par1)
	 {
		 super(par1);
		 this.setTickRandomly(true);
		 float f = 0.5F;
		 this.setBlockBounds(0.5F - f, 0.0F, 0.5F - f, 0.5F + f, 0.25F, 0.5F + f);
		 this.setCreativeTab((CreativeTabs)null);
		 this.setHardness(0.0F);
		 this.setStepSound(soundGrassFootstep);
		 this.disableStats();
	 }
	
	 public int idDropped(int i, Random random, int j)
	 {
		 //We will use our own drop function
		 return 0;
	 }
	 protected boolean canThisPlantGrowOnThisBlockID(int i)
	 {
		 return i == Block.tilledField.blockID;
	 }
	 public AxisAlignedBB getCollisionBoundingBoxFromPool(World world, int i, int j, int k)
	 {
		 return null;
	 }
	 public int getRenderType()
	 {
		 //set our RenderID
		 //return PamWeeeFlowers.FlowerCropRenderID;
	 return 6;
	 }
	 public boolean renderAsNormalBlock()
	 {
		 //use custom renderID
		 return false;
	 }
	 public boolean isOpaqueCube()
	 {
		 //Xray sides appear on the sides of the block while this is true;
		 return false;
	 }
	 public TileEntity getBlockEntity()
	 {
		 //get a TileEntity.
		 return new TileEntityPamFlowerCrop();
	 }
	 public static TileEntityPamFlowerCrop getFlowerCrop(World world, int i, int j, int k)
	 {
		 TileEntityPamFlowerCrop crop = (TileEntityPamFlowerCrop)world.getBlockTileEntity(i, j, k);
		 return crop;
		 //This will do all the casting and checking we need
	 }
	
	 /**
	 * Apply bonemeal to the crops.
	 */
	 public void fertilize(World world, int i, int j, int k, EntityPlayer entityplayer)
	 {
	 //Primative bonemeal function
		 ItemStack helditem = entityplayer.inventory.getStackInSlot(entityplayer.inventory.currentItem); //get selected slot
		 TileEntityPamFlowerCrop crop = getFlowerCrop(world, i, j, k);
		 if (crop != null && helditem != null)
		 {
			 if (helditem.itemID == Item.dyePowder.itemID && helditem.getItemDamage() == 15) /* If it is white dye */
			 {
				 crop.applyBonemeal();
				 entityplayer.inventory.decrStackSize(entityplayer.inventory.currentItem, 1); //decrease current item id slot by 1. Remove 1 bonemeal.
			 }
		 }
		 return;
	 }
	 public void updateTick(World world, int i, int j, int k, Random random)
	 {
		 super.updateTick(world, i, j, k, random);
		 if (world.getBlockLightValue(i, j + 1, k) >= 9)
		 {
			 //Removed a bunch of stuff involving metadata. addGrowthStage() will do it all.
			 float f = getGrowthRate(world, i, j, k);
			 if (random.nextInt((int)(260F / f)) == 0)
			 {
				 TileEntityPamFlowerCrop crop = getFlowerCrop(world, i, j, k);
				 if (crop != null) /* still need to make sure we have a tileentity */
				 {
					 crop.addGrowthStage(); //right click grows it one stage
				 }
			 }
		 }
	 }
	
	 /**
	 * Gets the growth rate for the crop. Setup to encourage rows by halving growth rate if there is diagonals, crops on
	 * different sides that aren't opposing, and by adding growth for every crop next to this one (and for crop below
	 * this one). Args: x, y, z
	 */
	 private float getGrowthRate(World par1World, int par2, int par3, int par4)
	 {
		 float f = 1.0F;
		 int l = par1World.getBlockId(par2, par3, par4 - 1);
		 int i1 = par1World.getBlockId(par2, par3, par4 + 1);
		 int j1 = par1World.getBlockId(par2 - 1, par3, par4);
		 int k1 = par1World.getBlockId(par2 + 1, par3, par4);
		 int l1 = par1World.getBlockId(par2 - 1, par3, par4 - 1);
		 int i2 = par1World.getBlockId(par2 + 1, par3, par4 - 1);
		 int j2 = par1World.getBlockId(par2 + 1, par3, par4 + 1);
		 int k2 = par1World.getBlockId(par2 - 1, par3, par4 + 1);
		 boolean flag = j1 == this.blockID || k1 == this.blockID;
		 boolean flag1 = l == this.blockID || i1 == this.blockID;
		 boolean flag2 = l1 == this.blockID || i2 == this.blockID || j2 == this.blockID || k2 == this.blockID;
		 for (int l2 = par2 - 1; l2 <= par2 + 1; ++l2)
		 {
			 for (int i3 = par4 - 1; i3 <= par4 + 1; ++i3)
			 {
				 int j3 = par1World.getBlockId(l2, par3 - 1, i3);
				 float f1 = 0.0F;
				 if (blocksList[j3] != null && blocksList[j3].canSustainPlant(par1World, l2, par3 - 1, i3, ForgeDirection.UP, this))
				 {
					 f1 = 1.0F;
					 if (blocksList[j3].isFertile(par1World, l2, par3 - 1, i3))
					 {
						 f1 = 3.0F;
					 }
				 }
				 if (l2 != par2 || i3 != par4)
				 {
					 f1 /= 4.0F;
				 }
				 f += f1;
			 }
		 }
		 if (flag2 || flag && flag1)
		 {
			 f /= 2.0F;
		 }
		 return f;
	 }
	
	
	 @SideOnly(Side.CLIENT)
	 public Icon getIcon(IBlockAccess par1IBlockAccess, int par2, int par3, int par4, int par5)
	 {
	 int cropID = 0;
	 int stage = 0;
	 TileEntityPamFlowerCrop tileentitypamflowercrop = (TileEntityPamFlowerCrop)par1IBlockAccess.getBlockTileEntity(par2, par3, par4);
	 if (tileentitypamflowercrop != null)
	 {
		 cropID = tileentitypamflowercrop.getFlowerCropID();
		 stage = tileentitypamflowercrop.getGrowthStage();
	 }
	 return this.iconArray[cropID][stage];
	 }
	 @SideOnly(Side.CLIENT)
	 public void registerIcon(IconRegister ir)
	 {
	 this.iconArray = new Icon[15][2];
	 for (int i = 0; i < 15; i++)
	 {
		 for (int j = 0; j < 2; j++)
		 {
		 this.iconArray[i][j] = ir.registerIcon("pamweeeflowers:" + this.cropName[i] + (j));
		 }
	 }
	 }
	
	
}

ClientProxyPamWeeeFlowers

package assets.pamweeeflowers;

import cpw.mods.fml.client.registry.ClientRegistry;
import cpw.mods.fml.client.registry.RenderingRegistry;
import net.minecraftforge.client.MinecraftForgeClient;

public class ClientProxyPamWeeeFlowers extends CommonProxyPamWeeeFlowers
{
@Override
public void registerRenderThings()
{
RenderingRegistry.registerBlockHandler(new PamFlowerCropRenderHandler());
RenderingRegistry.registerBlockHandler(PamWeeeFlowers.FlowerCropRenderID, new PamFlowerCropRenderHandler());
}
}

PamFlowerCropRenderHandler

package assets.pamweeeflowers;

import javax.swing.Renderer;

import net.minecraft.block.Block;
import net.minecraft.client.renderer.RenderBlocks;
import net.minecraft.world.IBlockAccess;
import net.minecraft.world.World;
import cpw.mods.fml.client.registry.ISimpleBlockRenderingHandler;
import cpw.mods.fml.client.registry.RenderingRegistry;

public class PamFlowerCropRenderHandler
implements ISimpleBlockRenderingHandler
{
public PamFlowerCropRenderHandler()
{
PamWeeeFlowers.FlowerCropRenderID = RenderingRegistry.getNextAvailableRenderId();
}

public int getRenderId()
{
return PamWeeeFlowers.FlowerCropRenderID;
}

public boolean shouldRender3DInInventory()
{
return false;
}

@Override
public boolean renderWorldBlock(IBlockAccess world, int x, int y, int z, Block block, int modelId, RenderBlocks renderer)
{
if (modelId == PamWeeeFlowers.FlowerCropRenderID)
{
TileEntityPamFlowerCrop tileentitypamflowercrop = (TileEntityPamFlowerCrop)world.getBlockTileEntity(x, y, z);
if (tileentitypamflowercrop == null)
{
return false;
}

int cropID = tileentitypamflowercrop.getFlowerCropID();
int stage = tileentitypamflowercrop.getGrowthStage();

if ((block != null) && ((block instanceof BlockPamFlowerCrop)))
{
BlockPamFlowerCrop pamflowerCrop = (BlockPamFlowerCrop)block;

renderer.setOverrideBlockTexture(pamflowerCrop.iconArray[cropID][stage]);
renderer.renderBlockCrops(block, x, y, z);
renderer.hasOverrideBlockTexture();

return true;
}

return false;
}
return false;
}


@Override
public void renderInventoryBlock(Block block, int metadata, int modelID,
RenderBlocks renderer) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub

}


}

TileEntityPamFlowerCrop

package assets.pamweeeflowers;

import cpw.mods.fml.relauncher.Side;
import cpw.mods.fml.relauncher.SideOnly;
import net.minecraft.block.Block;
import net.minecraft.client.renderer.texture.IconRegister;
import net.minecraft.entity.item.EntityItem;
import net.minecraft.entity.player.EntityPlayer;
import net.minecraft.item.ItemStack;
import net.minecraft.nbt.NBTTagCompound;
import net.minecraft.network.packet.Packet;
import net.minecraft.network.packet.Packet132TileEntityData;
import net.minecraft.tileentity.TileEntity;
import net.minecraft.util.Icon;
import net.minecraft.world.IBlockAccess;

public class TileEntityPamFlowerCrop extends TileEntity


{

public TileEntityPamFlowerCrop()
{
}

public void readFromNBT(NBTTagCompound nbttagcompound)
{
//Load the data
super.readFromNBT(nbttagcompound);
FlowerCropID = nbttagcompound.getShort("FlowerCropID");
GrowthStage = nbttagcompound.getShort("GrowthStage");
}

public void writeToNBT(NBTTagCompound nbttagcompound)
{
//Save the data
super.writeToNBT(nbttagcompound);
nbttagcompound.setShort("FlowerCropID", (short) FlowerCropID);
nbttagcompound.setShort("GrowthStage", (short) GrowthStage);
}



public void invalidate()
{
super.invalidate();

int i = GrowthStageCount[FlowerCropID] - 1;
int j = 0;
int k = 0;

if (worldObj.rand.nextInt(1) == 0)
{
j++;
}

if (GrowthStage > 0 && worldObj.rand.nextInt(2) == 0)
{
j++;
}

if (GrowthStage == i)
{
if (j < 1)
{
j = 1;
}

j += worldObj.rand.nextInt(2);
k = 1;
}

/// Added Here
if (GrowthStage == -1)
{
j = 0;
k = 0;
}

///
if (FlowerCropID < SeedDrops.length && j > 0)
{
DropItem(SeedDrops[FlowerCropID], j);
}

if (FlowerCropID < HarvestDrops.length && k > 0)
{
DropItem(HarvestDrops[FlowerCropID], k);
}
}

public void DropItem(int Item, int Count)
{
float f = 0.7F;
double d = (double)(worldObj.rand.nextFloat() * f) + (double)(1.0F - f) * 0.5D;
double d1 = (double)(worldObj.rand.nextFloat() * f) + (double)(1.0F - f) * 0.5D;
double d2 = (double)(worldObj.rand.nextFloat() * f) + (double)(1.0F - f) * 0.5D;

if (FlowerCropID > 13)
{
EntityItem entityitem = new EntityItem(worldObj, (double)xCoord + d, (double)yCoord + d1, (double)zCoord + d2, new ItemStack(Item, Count, 0));
entityitem.delayBeforeCanPickup = 10;
worldObj.spawnEntityInWorld(entityitem);
}
else
{
EntityItem entityitem = new EntityItem(worldObj, (double)xCoord + d, (double)yCoord + d1, (double)zCoord + d2, new ItemStack(Item, Count, FlowerCropID));
entityitem.delayBeforeCanPickup = 10;
worldObj.spawnEntityInWorld(entityitem);
}

return;
}

public void setFlowerCropID(int ID)
{
FlowerCropID = ID;//used by the seed item
}

public int getFlowerCropID()
{
//Base value for fetching other values
return FlowerCropID;
}

public void addGrowthStage()
{
//Run this instead of metadata functions
if (FlowerCropID < GrowthStageCount.length) /* Check if the CropID is in range to avoid a crash */
{
if (GrowthStage < GrowthStageCount[FlowerCropID] - 1) /* If it hasn't hit the max for that CropID, add a stage. Subtract one because the start stage was already used. */
{
GrowthStage++;
}
}

worldObj.markBlockForRenderUpdate(xCoord, yCoord, zCoord);
worldObj.notifyBlocksOfNeighborChange(xCoord, yCoord, zCoord, worldObj.getBlockId(xCoord, yCoord, zCoord)); //Updates the block so it displays properly
}

public void setGrowthStage(int Stage)
{
//In case you need an override
if (FlowerCropID < GrowthStageCount.length)
{
int MaxStage = GrowthStageCount[FlowerCropID] - 1; //Make sure we don't get above max

if (Stage > MaxStage)
{
GrowthStage = MaxStage;
}
else
{
GrowthStage = Stage;
}
}

worldObj.markBlockForRenderUpdate(xCoord, yCoord, zCoord);
worldObj.setBlock(xCoord, yCoord, zCoord, worldObj.getBlockId(xCoord, yCoord, zCoord));
}

public int getGrowthStage()
{
//In case you need to check the stage
return GrowthStage;
}

public void applyBonemeal()
{
//Set it to the Max Stage
if (FlowerCropID < GrowthStageCount.length)
{
int MaxStage = GrowthStageCount[FlowerCropID] - 1; //Make sure we don't get above max
System.out.println("I'm Growing");
GrowthStage = MaxStage;
}

worldObj.setBlock(xCoord, yCoord, zCoord, worldObj.getBlockId(xCoord, yCoord, zCoord));
}

private int FlowerCropID = 0; //This will be set in a custom seed item during placement
private int GrowthStage = 0; //should always start at 0

private int[] GrowthStageCount = {3,//White
3,//Orange
3,//Magenta
3,//Lightblue
3,//Lime
3,//Pink
3,//Grey
3,//Lightgrey
3,//Cyan
3,//Purple
3,//Blue
3,//Brown
3,//Green
3,//Black
3,//Yellow
3};//Red

//There are 8 default wheat stages. We will put 8 for CropID 3 so we can go through all stages.

private int[] SeedDrops = {PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//White
PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//Orange
PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//Magenta
PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//Lightblue
PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//Lime
PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//Pink
PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//Grey
PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//Lightgrey
PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//Cyan
PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//Purple
PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//Blue
PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//Brown
PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//Green
PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//Black
Block.plantYellow.blockID,//Yellow
Block.plantRed.blockID};//Red

//These are seed drops in the same array format. Just fill it with Item/Block IDs.
private int[] HarvestDrops = {PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//White
PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//Orange
PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//Magenta
PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//Lightblue
PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//Lime
PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//Pink
PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//Grey
PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//Lightgrey
PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//Cyan
PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//Purple
PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//Blue
PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//Brown
PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//Green
PamWeeeFlowers.pamFlower.blockID,//Black
Block.plantYellow.blockID,//Yellow
Block.plantRed.blockID};//Red


}

Try going to my github I have a mod there that is for 1.6.1 that has crops in it.

Quote from FyveSeven

Excellent tutorials! I'm currently working on writing the underpinnings of my new mod, and this helped clear up some of the 1.6 differences. Pam, have you posted that on your thread? I'm sure that if you asked for update help there, one of your users could help. I of course understand why you wouldn't want to do that, but it's always an option.

Thanks

Quote from MatrexsVigil

I've posted it several places and e-mailed some coders who are waaay better than me. Hopefully I'll get an answer soon so flowers can once again spawn in Minecraftia. xD

Here is your reply ;PWhat should I do for wednesday anyone have any comments?

Tutorial will come later today I have some personal matters to attend to right now so look for them around 7pm EST

By "Advanced Tile Work" you mean Tile Entities?

Quote from Geo_Terra

By "Advanced Tile Work" you mean Tile Entities?

Yes I mean TE's

Is there a way to give an item a hit distance like if im selecting the item i can have a hit distance of 5 block away?

Quote from Geforce132

Could you please make a PacketHandler tutorial? . Im trying to make my mod SMP compatible, but since i add new TileEntitys, i need a packet handler.

Alright I will add that to my list this saturday

Quote from ralphyrafa

Is there a way to give an item a hit distance like if im selecting the item i can have a hit distance of 5 block away?

I presume so...yes

I am sorry if this is a very stupid question but what exactly do I do with the code in the tutorials. Where am I supposed to save the file or paste the code to?