A bit of background: Some time ago I followed a couple of tutorials for getting started which got me through to creating the mod from scratch and adding a single new block. 95% of that stuff was boilerplate, so a few tangential questions:

1. Is there a boilerplate/template project I can fork from git or something so that I don't have to spend an hour setting up a mod from scratch?
2. There are thousands of tutorials out there; which ones are the better ones?

 

And back to what I actually want to do: I want to over-ride the biome generation. Not the placing of blocks according to the biome, but instead, I want whatever procedure plucks the biome value out of Perlin noise or whatever to instead look up a value from a file based on co-ordinates. I'm hoping that the end result will be that I can create world maps myself and have the game generate the land for me from that map.

 

I'm hoping someone will tell me: "fork this repo, then go straight to X class, Y method". But I'll be okay with "Follow X tutorial to get set up, then got to Y class" etc.

To partially answer my own question, it looks like I can download and install the MDK and go from there.

Edited December 15, 20177 yr by Uncle Gus

Yes, there is an example mod included in the MDK. 

 

I have a number of tutorials. Can't say they're the best, but I also link to some others. http://jabelarminecraft.blogspot.com/p/minecraft-forge-172-quick-tips-gl11-and.html

 

Different tutorial authors focus on different topics, so for example I like entities whereas other people might have better stuff related to tesslators. Also, it is really tough keeping up with the new versions. I've converted much of my stuff to 1.12, and many concepts are still valid over other versions, but different tutorials have varying up-to-datedness.

Wow man, thank you! I'll check out your stuff at the first opportunity. 

Okay, next hurdle.

 

I downloaded the MDK and ran gradlew setupDecompWorkspace and it failed with an error saying that it had no java compiler, so I figured I'd need to install the JDK, which I did. But now when I run the command again, it fails straight away with:

 

Could not determine java version from '9.0.1'.

Is JDK 9 too new? I found some forums posts where people have had this error and the solution was to upgrade gradle. But I haven't installed gradle. Is it somehow built into that gradlew script?

Edited December 16, 20177 yr by Uncle Gus

Ah, I see that the first thing it does is download a gradle bin zip, defined in the properties file. I changed that version to 4.4; we'll see how that goes.

And there you have it folks:

> Failed to apply plugin [id 'net.minecraftforge.gradle.forge']
   > ForgeGradle does not currently support Java 9

I guess I'll find out what Java version I should be using and install that one.

Okay, reverted the properties file and I am now downloading and installing Java 8 JDK. Fingers crossed.

Success! :recompileMc in progress.

8 hours ago, Uncle Gus said:

Is JDK 9 too new? 

Yes, it is. 

As for tutorials, for the very basics (custom blocks, items, containers) I usually recommend Shadowfacts. Jabelar has a ton of great stuff. Also look up Choonser's TestMod3 and The Grey Ghost's Minecraft by Example for lots of great example code.

 

What you want to do sounds something like the mod Open Terrain Generator. Maybe look it up and see if there's anything useful.