MinecraftForge Functions - Where can I read about?

[American2050]

I think I should have done/ask this time time ago.

 

Is there a place where I can get information about all the functions that we have available and how to implement them?

 

Thanks.

[Draco18s]

Basically the whole of Minecraft is open to you.  What is your goal?

[American2050]

Well, basically know "everything" we have available to use. Let's say I want to make a block that has to check if other specific block is above it. (Or below, or close, and so on)

 

I'm almost sure there is some function to check for neighbors blocks. But instead of learning all that from Tutorials, where can I look at those... Or it's just by digging around the Minecraft code?

[Draco18s]

That's all vanilla.  When a block gets an update, it's given a world object and it's location. 

world.getBlock(x, y+1, z);//block above

[deadrecon98]

  On 2/18/2015 at 10:07 PM, American2050 said:

I think I should have done/ask this time time ago.

 

Is there a place where I can get information about all the functions that we have available and how to implement them?

 

Thanks.

 

Yes there is! It is a relatively new site called www.google.com. This site can answer almost any question you put into it!

[charsmud]

There are javadocs available for Forge at files.minecraftforge.net, that should give you enough information. 

[TheGreyGhost]

Unfortunately, as you've probably already discovered, the documentation for Forge is a bit patchy and of "highly variable" quality.

 

There are a number of tutorial sites around which help.  The Tutorials section on this board has some good ones.

 

You might also find this one useful

http://greyminecraftcoder.blogspot.com.au/p/list-of-topics.html

and the accompanying sample project

https://github.com/TheGreyGhost/MinecraftByExample

 

But most of the time it comes down to trial and error, reverse-engineering the vanilla code, and good debugging skills...

 

-TGG

 

[Draco18s]

  On 2/19/2015 at 2:56 AM, TheGreyGhost said:

Unfortunately, as you've probably already discovered, the documentation for Forge is a bit patchy and of "highly variable" quality.

 

Because it's a right pain in the arse to update them.

[American2050]

  On 2/19/2015 at 2:48 AM, charsmud said:

There are javadocs available for Forge at files.minecraftforge.net, that should give you enough information.

 

Yes thanks Charsmud, I found the Java docs and it helps a lot, at least to know everything there is available to use (Or most I guess)

 

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Unfortunately, as you've probably already discovered, the documentation for Forge is a bit patchy and of "highly variable" quality.

 

There are a number of tutorial sites around which help.  The Tutorials section on this board has some good ones.

 

You might also find this one useful

http://greyminecraftcoder.blogspot.com.au/p/list-of-topics.html

and the accompanying sample project

https://github.com/TheGreyGhost/MinecraftByExample

 

But most of the time it comes down to trial and error, reverse-engineering the vanilla code, and good debugging skills...

 

-TGG

 

Thanks TheGreyGhost. Yes, I saw some of the tutorials are really helpful, and yes trial and error or finding a tutorial that explain exactly what we are looking for are the best alternatives apparently.

 

I have done easy things mostly when doing a mod, but I'm trying to learn more to go forward more advanced stuff.

 

Thanks for all the answers