Okay so I haven't done any coding since 1.2.5, that was with modloader and now I am trying forge, and I am trying to read through and watch tutorials to learn everything I am needing to learn but I have a problem:

 

Every tutorial I watch on anything advanced, or any tutorial I read, just shows me how to make what they are making, no explination. Its always "follow this right here, put this here, add these here" I have never found one that actually steps me through explaining "this number here determines this" or "this line makes this happen" so I was just wondering if anyone knew a really good and in-depth tutorial that they would recommend for making a GUI/Tile entities (more specifically, I was wanting to make a crafting table of sorts for my mod, it would function like a crafting table with a custom GUI and custom recipes specifically to it)

Custom recipe stuff is pretty advanced, as you have to do matching of multiple items (in a specific placement!) to a single output.

 

I suggest starting off (especially considering you haven't been modding for both a long time, or with Forge at all) with simple blocks and items.  They aren't exactly trivial to create properly right now.

For a crafting table, you don't need a tile entity, as you do not need to save any information, rather just see if what you put in is valid...

But I don't know any good tutorials, I would recommend basically copying the vanilla class, tweak some things to see what they do, and search for where it gets the recipes, modify it so it gets your own list

A place for pretty good tutorials is http://modwiki.temporal-reality.com/mw/index.php/Main_Page, it could be really helpful to get you started. It gives a basic tutorial on how to make a basic tile entity and one that holds inventory with a GUI. You could change around where the slots are placed and make it work like a crafting table if you wanted.

Thanks for the help guys!!

 

 

CoolAlias's tutorial has some pretty decent commentary:

 

https://github.com/coolAlias/Forge_Tutorials/blob/master/InventoryItemTutorial.java

 

Bedrock Miner is usually good at explaining stuff, too:

 

https://bedrockminer.jimdo.com/modding-tutorials/#advanced

 

Both of those are for 1.8.9 or earlier. Shadowfacts tutorials are usually good at explaining this as well and are for 1.10 and later:

 

https://shadowfacts.net/tutorials/forge-modding-1102/

CoolAlias's tutorial has some pretty decent commentary:

 

https://github.com/coolAlias/Forge_Tutorials/blob/master/InventoryItemTutorial.java

 

Bedrock Miner is usually good at explaining stuff, too:

 

https://bedrockminer.jimdo.com/modding-tutorials/#advanced

 

Both of those are for 1.8.9 or earlier. Shadowfacts tutorials are usually good at explaining this as well and are for 1.10 and later:

 

https://shadowfacts.net/tutorials/forge-modding-1102/

 

Thanks, you guys are awesome! Man the modding support community back in 1.2.5 was dead compared to you guys!