[1.6.4] Several Things

[alphawolf918]

Hi, I've been modding 1.6.4 Minecraft for about a year now and I've come very far I believe, but there are several things that I need help with. If I could get help with even just one of these, it would be great:

 

• Armor. I've tried this before, but I'm a bit confused about is setup and how it works, so adding one has thus far eluded me. Nevermind, turns out I just found one for this... it's in 1.7.2 but it looks compatible with 1.6.4 as well so I'll try that first and update this if it doesn't work, but I'm confident that it will.
  
• GUI / Inventory. I would love to be able to make GUIs for certain blocks and manipulate inventories.
  
• Boss mobs.
  
• Water mobs.
  
• How to implement Blender models into Java form and/or load them in Eclipse Java files.
  
• How to reference another mod I made from within a different mod, and how to reference a mod like BuildCraft in my mod.
  
• Redstone modding / manipulating it.
  

I also write Minecraft modding tutorials for 1.6.4, and I know I'm behind, but this is what I know and it's easy for me to understand. I need to get into 1.7, but frankly I don't understand half of the setup. So I do write what I know (which I will go out on a limb and say is a pretty good bit, all things considered), and it's been great, I've written several mods already. But I would love to expand my knowledge, and I've been searching for months, but I can't find any tutorials in 1.6.4 about these topics. So if anyone could help me out or at least point me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks to anyone who at least took time out of their day to read my post, anyways. I hope to hear back from someone shortly.

[jabelar]

>> How to reference another mod I made from within a different mod, and how to reference a mod like BuildCraft in my mod.

 

I think this is actually more of a general Java topic.  But it depends on a few things.  For your own mods, you have the control of the build process so I think you would define part of one or both mods to build as deobfuscated API for those fields and methods you want to access between the mods.  Then the other project can reference it (I think as linked library?) within both the development and runtime environment if you put it into your build path.  If you're using another person's mod with public API then you can do a similar thing. 

 

You should refer to CoolAlias' tutorial on APIs: http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/mapping-and-modding-tutorials/1571434-tutorial-modding-with-apis#

[alphawolf918]

Thanks for the reply, and I'll look into that.

 

Seems like Minecraft Forums are down right now though, according to that link, odd.