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Quote from stealthbaz»

Hey Alex, just wanted to say thanks for doing this! I am an engineer, but I haven't ever tried to mod Minecraft. I'm already well into the Item tutorial and glad to make some progress! So thanks, and keep it up!

Added a poll! What should I cover next!?

EDIT: I have decided not to use the poll.

Quote from alexcouch»

I am in the process of creating some minecraft forge modding tutorials.
Setting Up Configurations Items Blocks Creative Tab Crafting and Smelting Tools Ore Generation Armor Dungeon/Chest Hooks More to come...
My series are going to be in depth with lots of code snippets. There are not a lot of 1.11 tutorials out there right now that are in depth and beginner friendly. If you have any suggestions on what I should cover, drop it in a thread reply below!
If you have any questions, please do research before emailing or dming me regarding anything.

Minor feedback, but in the Item tutorial, I got a little hung up when you described making

"create a package called "assets.<modid>", so in our case it would be "assets.tut". Within this we will create another package called "models.item". Within this create a new Untitled Text File."

And later, you tell us to

So let's go ahead and create a texture package called "assets.tut.textures.items"

Eclipse does odd things when you make the first sub-package but with nothing in it. ("assets.tut") then try to make another package within it.

Its probably simpler to just instruct us to make 2 packages: assets.tut.models.item and assets.tut.textures.items and then have us fill stuff in after.

Also, until you do end up making a paint tutorial, its probably useful to just give a bare minimum, and tell folks to make a 16x16 png that is the texture.

( I don't know if higher dimensions work.. I think I started at 32x32.. but in my thrash of discovering that my assets.tut.models.item package was incorrect, I googled around to learn that the textures are typically 16x16.. so I shrank it thinking that might be the cause.

Also, when ever you DO make the paint tutorial, I'd include some portion in there of how to open up the existing textures.. just so you can see how they are made now for reference.

Great stuff tho! I look forward to moving on!

Looks nice. haven't modded since 1.8 and am hoping to get back on the train.

Ah yes, my bad. I am in a different view than you. I am in hierarchical view, so that's probably what I based the package making off of. Lemme correct the intro.

You can choose this view by going to the small downward arrow at the top right of your package explorer. (Shown Below). Click it and go to Package Presentation > Hierarchical , and that should clear everything up. I will definitely add that to the first entry! Thank you for your feedback! It is much appreciated!

Also, I will be working on the paint.NET tutorials very soon.

Here is what it looks like

P.S.: I couldn't get an image to show up in my post so I just linked to it. It's an imgur link.

Quote from mistereel»

Hey Alex, thanks for doing this, but when I try to run the first time (at the end of the configurations tutorial), the game start, but after a bit of loading (before it's finished) it crashes and gives this message: "Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: Using incremental CMS is deprecated and will likely be removed in a future release".

Quote from alexcouch»

Hey, I did a bit of research and turns out that it gives you that error when you have an incorrect naming convention.

https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCL-774

Could I see you package names and your modid?

Great tutorials, looking forward to the rest. But you've done a great job so far.

Hey guys, what should I do a tutorial on next? I'm thinking armor

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.couchdoescode.tut.proxy.ClientProxy

Are you sure you are pointing your proxies at the right file locations? Make sure that your reference is pointing at the exact location of your ClientProxy.

Quote from mistereel»

oh wow, i feel incredibly stupid now, i just copy-pasted from your guide, and forgot to change couchdoescode.tut to mistereel.testmod (which it should be). Now it is working.. Thanks, next time something doesn't work, I'll make sure i don't make copy-paste errors haha

Though in my defence, i know no java at all (which i know i should, and I'm planning to change it), so apart from copy pasting i can't really do anything..

The best practice is to NOT copy-paste. It is to type it all out.

Here is a link to some java tutorials. I might actually make my own java tutorials though

Hey guys thanks for the awesome compliments! Please check out my mod that is current in it's very early WIP stages, Mara: The Ultimate Nightmare. Thanks again everyone! I'll be updating my mod AND my tutorials very soon!

Quote from alexcouch»

I am in the process of creating some minecraft forge modding tutorials.
Setting Up Configurations Items Blocks Creative Tab Crafting and Smelting Tools Ore Generation Armor Animated Textures Custom Block Models Dungeon/Chest Hooks Mobs Biomes Trees Liquids Dimensions
My series are going to be in depth with lots of code snippets. There are not a lot of 1.11 tutorials out there right now that are in depth and beginner friendly. If you have any suggestions on what I should cover, drop it in a thread reply below!
If you have any questions, please do research before emailing or dming me regarding anything.