Skill System

[BenGBoo]

Hello everyone, this is my first modding attempt and I've gotten down making items, tools, blocks, and crafting recipes. I have a decent grasp on Java as a programming language but I'm still very new and unsure of Minecraft's modding. The mod I want to make relies heavily on a skill sort of system, where repeating an action like chopping down a tree gives you experience towards that skill, and leveling up increases your efficiency at that skill, so chopping just a tiny bit faster or maybe a chance at getting an extra log. I want this to be a feature of every part of the game, like a skill for farming, tree chopping, mining, etc., but I don't know exactly how to accomplish this. I was thinking that advancements would be a great way to track and see progress on these levels, but how would I go about tracking "blocks mined/xp gained", and how would I reward the player with a constant and permanent stat buff?

 

Thank you all very much for your help.

[Draco18s]

Capabilities.

 

They really aren't that hard to work with, but do require creating a few classes that don't seem to make a lot of sense.

 

You can see an example I did for TE machines here, but the process will be the same for player capabilities. The only difference is how you attach the capability (for a player, I believe you would use the AttachCapabilityEvent, though I'm not 100% sure on that)

[BenGBoo]

  On 6/14/2018 at 7:47 PM, Draco18s said:

Capabilities.

 

They really aren't that hard to work with, but do require creating a few classes that don't seem to make a lot of sense.

 

You can see an example I did for TE machines here, but the process will be the same for player capabilities. The only difference is how you attach the capability (for a player, I believe you would use the AttachCapabilityEvent, though I'm not 100% sure on that)

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Thank you very much! I don't know exactly what capabilities are but that's a great starting point, I'll do some research. Thanks again!

[Draco18s]

Capabilities, generally speaking, is a cross-mod-compatible way of accessing extra data, methods, or interaction for TileEntities, ItemStacks, Entities, etc. without needing to create hard dependencies in your code.

 

For example, prior to 1.10, if you wanted a TE machine that accepted Redstone Flux, IC2 power, and RotaryCraft crank input, you had to implement 3 or more interfaces on your TE, then use Annotations to have Forge remove those interfaces and methods when those mods were not present.

 

With capabilities, everything's done through getCapability in a generic manner.