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Yes, yes they are. And adding new types is a right pain, because if you don't change the texture right and change it back everything just falls apart.

Particles. Are a b*tch if you want them to look like something that Minecraft doesn't have. Fortunately for you, the void particle exists and is what you want. I forget what class Minecraft uses where it figures out what string matches what particle (FX[something something]?) but you can find it by just tracing through existing code (hover over a function and you'll get the Javadoc, click the green dot in the upper left corner or the name of the function to jump to that point in the code). It's only four jumps through a couple of vanilla classes (start with world.spawnParticle). Once you find the name you're looking for (I know that redstone is "reddust" for instance) you can just use that instead of "flame" when calling spawnParticle.

Take a look at how I do it here. Class is kind of a mess, but you're looking for packet ID 5 (ctrl-f "case 5") there's also a comment that says "lightning" It's not the greatest thing in the world, but it might help you.

Or you could do it during Init / Post Init like a normal person. There's basically no reason to shove things into the common proxy.

forge-1.6.4-9.11.1.965-installer.jar Mutant_Creatures_v1.3.6_mc1.6.2(1).zip 1.6.2 does not equal 1.6.4

...You really shouldn't do that in the proxy class. That needs to run both client and server side.

It's likely less intense than I'm thinking, but I haven't been under a lot of pressure to do it, and have been working on other projects.

Sounds like I can start tinkering then. The changes from 1.6 to 1.7 pretty much mean I have to learn everything all over again, and I wasn't willing to do that and hunt down every bloody undeobfuscated command at the same time. I've fallen out of doing mods lately (other than maintaining my one popular one) but I'll make sure to remember that 1.7 is pretty much usable at this point.

if(par2Block == Blocks.obsidian) ? Seriously dude, basic Java.

Tangentially related: How many of these reasonably common functions are still obfuscated at this point?

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Might want to start with a number greater than 1. If its too slow, make the number bigger. If its too fast, make the number smaller. (Note: bare-handed strength is approximately 0.25)

Do you have @NetworkMod(clientSideRequired = true, serverSideRequired = false) Or do you have @NetworkMod(clientSideRequired = true, serverSideRequired = false, clientPacketHandlerSpec = @SidedPacketHandler(channels = {"MyMod"}, packetHandler = PacketHandlerClient.class), serverPacketHandlerSpec = @SidedPacketHandler(channels = {"MyMod"}, packetHandler = PacketHandlerServer.class)) ?

public float getPlayerRelativeBlockHardness(EntityPlayer par1EntityPlayer, World par2World, int par3, int par4, int par5){ } ?

config = event.getSuggestedConfigurationFile(); whateverval = config.get("MyCategory","MyNamedValue").getInt();

It's almost like people are incapable of reading and looking at existing thread titles.

Without code we can't help you, although this is particularly puzzling: java.lang.NullPointerException: Rendering item at net.minecraft.item.ItemStack.getItemDamage(ItemStack.java:266) NPE at getItemDamage() ?!

There are three kinds of programming errors: Off-by-one errors and bad reference errors.

The item you'd want to use metadata (as NBT data items will never stack). For the crop you're going to have to use a tile entity rather than a standard block, as metadata is already being used for growth stage.

All I did was correct an error he'd already made. You have to make sure you're retrieving the right TE. How you go about getting/saving references is up to you.

Well yes. But I left that as an exercise to the reader.

You mean mcmod.info?

Also stop using the language registry. http://www.minecraftforge.net/forum/index.php/topic,16331.msg82795.html#msg82795

Well if your Item extends Item (anywhere in its hierarchy), then in the Item class there's getStrVsBlock Use that

You need to start somewhere else. All of those things are fairly advanced operations.