[Solved][1.8]How to create a block & possibly an Item

[Mecblader]

I feel noobish asking this question, but I can't figure out how to create a block and render it correctly in 1.8. I tried searching for block creation tutorials, but all I could find is Wuppy29's website, but I can't open his website for some reason. So I tried to copy minecraft's code, but I still cant figure it out. Could someone eighther point me to another tutorial or give me an over view of what I need to do. Also I heard that creating blocks now requires .json files, I just wanted to note that I have no experience with them.

[ulfgur]

I'm totally new as well, and was having similar problems... yesterday? Yesterday, I think. Anyways, I've been building my mod off of this, and it's worked out great!

 

http://www.minecraftforge.net/forum/index.php/topic,27474.msg140662.html#msg140662

[Mecblader]

No matter what i try the block renders with a null texture and i cant figure out why.

[Mecblader]

Finally I solved it, i don't know if it was intentional but the resource location thing does not accept underscores in the file path, but after a TON of refactoring, it works!

[chris999]

It's good that you solved it.  JSON files are just text files with data in them.  You can open them up in notepad to see the data or use a viewer like https://json-csv.com