Starting modding, what tutorials to use?

[McJty]

Hi all, I want to start how to learn to mod on the 1.7.2 version of MineCraft. I can find lots of tutorials on how to use Forge and modding with forge in general but most of them are for 1.6.4 or older versions. Are there any good resources on modding with Forge and 1.7.2? And how useful are the 1.6.4 tutorials still? Has a lot changed between 1.6.4 and 1.7.2 with relation to Forge?

 

Thanks for any info you can give me.

[Kwibble]

Try looking up ScratchForFun on youtube. He has some great tutorials for 1.7.x (as well as a very cool accent).

Then there is also TheGrovesyProject101, another very good *tutorialer*

[McJty]

Thanks for these suggestions. I will most certainly look at them. However as I'm often offline when I have time to read documentation I'm hoping more for documentation I can print out or download so I can read it without internet connection. Is any of that possible?

[Kwibble]

Well... Funny you should ask that. There isn't really that much documentation sorry. There is some great Forge documentation, but then again...

You'll have to keep searching for good in-depth stuff.

[McJty]

Ok thanks. It also seems that there is no real API reference either? How do you get to know what kind of functions or API the forge classes support and what these do?

[Kwibble]

Forge isn't really an API per-se. The only real API stuff is the Registries (GameRegistry, NetworkRegistry etc.), and the Event Buses (MinecraftForge.EVENT_BUS, FMLCommonHandler.instance().bus() [i think]). Aside from that...

 

Javadocs mainly, that's what we use. And just guessing by what things are named... But that can lead to interesting results sometimes