A question of the next step for a new modder....

[DJD]

I've got (or almost got) a workable mod I'd like to get out for others to kick around, get some feedback etc etc.

 

What is the best way to go about this ?

[TheGreyGhost]

Hi

 

Once you've built your mod, I'd suggest you first get a few of your real-life friends to try it out and flush out some of the bugs for you.  Especially multiplayer Open To LAN.

 

Once it's ready for public consumption you can post it on a site like

http://www.minecraftforum.net/

or

http://www.planetminecraft.com/

 

It's not too tricky, once you've created an account you can upload your mod - PlanetMinecraft will upload a file, for minecraft forum you will need to post a link to your file hosted somewhere else (for example, https://www.dropbox.com/).  PlanetMinecraft will only accept .zip for some reason, but all you need to do is rename your .jar to .zip.

It's worth spending a bit of time on the mod description, installation instructions, and a few good screenshots and a short YouTube showcase will help a lot too.

 

A google will also show you a few tutorials on getting your mod properly packaged, versions etc correct.

 

-TGG

 

 

[Choonster]

You can also host your mod on CurseForge. You slowly earn points based on the number of people who download the mod, these points can be spent on Amazon/Steam gift cards or money via PayPal. A couple of years of WoW AddOns hosted on Curse earned me enough points for US$100, so it's not a huge amount of money; but it's better than nothing.

 

You can also upload to CurseForge through their Gradle plugin, though I haven't done this myself.

[TheGreyGhost]

@dieSieben

Yeah I don't know why they have that rule.  Their uploader also has some serious bugs which means it often doesn't work.  But apart from that the site is really good and very popular.

 

-TGG

[DJD]

Thanks all...

 

Its called Brix and its (at the moment) a creative mode tool for design purposes (think diablo3 and how it uses a few parts to randomize dungeons in various ways).

 

I'm a few weeks away from any kind of release anyway- got to clean up the code, remove some debug stuff etc etc)...

[American2050]

You can also host your mod on CurseForge. You slowly earn points based on the number of people who download the mod, these points can be spent on Amazon/Steam gift cards or money via PayPal. A couple of years of WoW AddOns hosted on Curse earned me enough points for US$100, so it's not a huge amount of money; but it's better than nothing.

 

You can also upload to CurseForge through their Gradle plugin, though I haven't done this myself.

 

Do you have any link to read on Curse how that points system works?

 

Thanks.

[Choonster]

Do you have any link to read on Curse how that points system works?

 

Thanks.

 

There's an FAQ here and some other links here.