I've googled it several times and can't seem to find any Event tutorials that make sense to me. Would someone recommend a more comprehensive/informative tutorial? I watch wuppy's 29 video, but that just didn't cut it for me.

 

Also it would be good if someone could provide an example, say how to create an explosion when a certain block (say gold) is placed

 

Thanks guys

I have a tutorial on events here: http://jabelarminecraft.blogspot.com/p/minecraft-forge-172-event-handling.html

 

I have some examples in the tutorial.

 

Is making an explosion when a block is placed what you're trying to do? Is it your own custom block, or a vanilla block? If it is a custom block then you probably don't need event handling (although you certainly can use events for custom blocks if you wish).