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Hey glad to hear you got it working. You see the thing is I had to wrap up this mini project quickly as I was getting a bit busy with other stuff. I should have detailed the installation better and you're totally right about the forge versions. Since the 1.12 update forge had been changing a lot of stuff. It's my laziness for not looking out for future and past version compatibility. I will look into bugs, compatibility and feature additions another time but feel free to keep posting here.

Here's an update on the mod:

Turns out it wasn't too hard to code and especially because someone on the forge forums provided the perfect solution to another modder who was trying to do the same thing. At the moment, the cycle duration is set by me in code and cannot be changed ingame once you load the mod. So at this point the mod is actually done because you've said that:

Quote from reaverofdarknes1»

That would be most excellent!

Don't make it too complicated. Simplicity is best. What I want most out of it is that it's bug-free and compatible with other mods. Ideally I'd bump the day/night length to 3x or 6x its current length (20 minutes). If you put in any options, they'd probably fit best just in the menu outside of the game. No need to change the setting while in-game I figure, unless that actually makes it easier to program it. I intend to set it once and then never change it.

So I set the duration of 1 cycle to 3x its original and here is the mod if you believe it's good enough. Although I haven't tested this mod for its bugs and compatibility, I believe you will not have problems with it. Plop the jar in your mods folder and that's it. To revert take it out of the mods folder and restart minecraft. Otherwise, let me know of any bugs and whether you want some sort of ability to set the duration yourself.

This is my first mod and its main feature is giving you a craftable item that strikes lightning where you look.

This mod adds:

• Lightning Bolt Item - right click to strike lightning where you look (42 durability)



Recipe: 3 blaze rods, 2 gold nuggets

• Fire Be Gone Item - right click to extinguish fire blocks and entities in 10 block radius (1 use)



Recipe: 4 splash water bottles, 1 water bucket

• Lightning Charger Block - right click on this with a lightning bolt item to repair it



Recipe: 1 lightning bolt item, 1 diamond block, 3 obsidian

• Tutorial Pickaxe Item - unrelated item I created while following SilentChaos512's modding tutorials

Installation:

1. Download and install minecraft forge
2. Run Minecraft once to load forge
3. Download and place this mod's jar file in your .minecraft/mods folder and for forge servers also place in your server's mods folder
4. Run Minecraft

https://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/lightning-bolt-mod

I may try my hand at this later but I'm only a newbie still finishing up my first mod so don't expect too much from me.

Quote from UpcraftLP»

I've done it myself a few weeks ago, try looking at it. (GitHub)

You'll basically need a ChunkProvider, a ChunkManager, a WorldProvider and a Teleporter class.

Register them in your init method like this. Call it from your CommonProxy class.