Cubicoder's 1.12 Tutorials

[cubicoder 2]

https://cubicoder.github.io/

 

These tutorials are meant to help others learn how to mod Minecraft using Forge, as well as learn the concepts behind the code. If you don’t know any Java, please go learn some and come back! There are lots of great Java tutorials online, and trying to mod Minecraft without a good understanding of Java is very confusing.

 

Any *constructive* feedback is welcome, as I'm trying to make these tutorials as accurate as possible to the "correct" way of doing things!

 

EDIT: Please note that the website has moved! I have decided to move to GitHub Pages as my host. All of the previous tutorials have been moved over.

The purpose of this change is to make it easier for people other than myself to contribute to these tutorials, as all it takes is a simple pull request to contribute a tutorial. I am open to contributions at this time; however please make sure you know what you’re talking about and explain the concepts thoroughly. Also, please keep tutorials to Minecraft versions 1.12.2 and above. More contributing guidelines should be available on the GitHub repo soon.

Edited April 20, 2019 by cubicoder
Changed website host

[diesieben07 7890]

Some comments:

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@Instance(Reference.MODID)

public static TutorialMod instance = new TutorialMod();

No. The point of @Instance is that it is filled in automatically by FML. Do not set it yourself. Also:

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This isn’t strictly necessary, but it’s good practice to include.

No. It's not good practice. Use it if you need it. You probably don't.

 

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Create four fields in your Reference class

Please at least explain why you have this class. I fail to see the point in it.

 

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First, create a new package in src/main/java. This can be called anything you want.

No, it cannot: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/package/namingpkgs.html

 

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MODID: This is the internal ID of your mod.

Nothing about a mod ID is internal. It is a public identifier of the mod and should never be changed.

 

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a client proxy, a server proxy, and a common proxy that will run code for both sides.

No. A "common proxy" is pointless. The point of proxies is to run side-specific code. Not common code. For common code you have your main mod class.

Also, do not use @EventHandler in your proxies, it only works in your main mod class.

 

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The CommonProxy class should contain the Forge lifecycle methods, like the main class does.

No. This is completely missing the point and purpose of the proxy system.

 

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To make life simpler later down the road, when we have many items to register, we’ll make an item “cache”

Nothing about this is a cache.

 

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Finally, we need to register the models in our RegistryHandler class.

This completely defeats the mechanisms of @SidedProxy. You are referencing a client-only class (ModelRegistryEvent) in common code (RegistryHandler).

Also why are you clearing the "item cache" here? If you are not gonna use it for anything else, why not just use ForgeRegistries.ITEMS and filter by mod ID?

 

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public TutorialTab() {

     super("tabTutorialMod");

}

You should include your mod ID in your creative tab unlocalized names as well.

 

Edited June 21, 2018 by diesieben07

[cubicoder 2]

Thanks for the feedback! Everything should be updated now to be a little more correct. This is why I wanted to make tutorials in the first place, because nobody ever tells new modders the correct way of doing things. They just have to figure it out for themselves, and usually they figure it out wrong. Hopefully, people will start learning things right now that I've gotten some help.

[diesieben07 7890]

• Now your ClientProxy extends ServerProxy. This makes even less sense. There should be an interface Proxy and two classes (ClientProxy, ServerProxy) that implement it.
• You still have the empty ***Init methods in your proxy classes. Why?
• @SideOnly is not needed in your ModelRegistryHandler. Instead use the value attribute of the @EventBusSubscriber annotation.

[cubicoder 2]

Fixed (hopefully).

 

You know, maybe you should make your own tutorials. It seems like you're the only one around here that knows what you're doing. Looking at the source of mods like Tinker's Construct and Iron Chests, even those mods are doing things like using common proxies. I feel like there needs to be somewhere where people can look to find how to do this the right way, and the official Forge documentation just doesn't tell you that much.

[diesieben07 7890]

You now just have a typo:

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In the Reference class, add these two lines

There is no Reference class anymore.

 

And the I prefix for interfaces is stupid, but that is personal opinion (I guess).

 

41 minutes ago, cubicoder said:

You know, maybe you should make your own tutorials.

If only I had the time. Thing is, there is technically nothing wrong with these things. They work fine and they are not terrible game-breaking things. They are just bad practices that unnecessarily bloat your code and hide the true reason for things. There is a term for this: Cargo culting.

 

41 minutes ago, cubicoder said:

and the official Forge documentation just doesn't tell you that much.

That is why it's open source. Feel free to contribute.

 

Oh... and this:

2 hours ago, diesieben07 said:

You still have the empty ***Init methods in your proxy classes. Why?

Edited June 21, 2018 by diesieben07

[cubicoder 2]

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If only I had the time.

I understand. Well, thanks at least for helping me with mine!

[zkiller20 0]

Idea :
- Item Capability
- Fluid Capability
- Energy Capability
- Custom Capability
- Electric Machine ( furnace, crusher, coal generator, etc.. )

[cubicoder 2]

Thanks for the ideas! I'm not planning on doing any more 1.12.2 tutorials due to the massive amount of changes coming in 1.13, but I'll definitely keep these in mind once I start again!

[H_SerhatY 1]

Hello. If you want to make a list for 1.13 tutorials, I make a list.

- Development Environment

- Main Mod Class

- Proxies

- Custom Items

- Custom Blocks

- Language File

- Custom Creative Tab

- Custom Tools

- Custom Armors

- Crafting and Smelting Recipes

- Foods

- Crops

- Ore Gen

- Ore Dictionary

- Mobs(Standart Models)

- Mobs(Custom Models)

- Custom Workbench

- Custom Furnace

- Custom Chest

- Special Tools(for example, a sword that drops mob heads, an axe that drops trees completely, etc.)

- Special Armors(for example, a helmet that gives Night Vision, boots that gives Speed, etc.)

- Customizable Tools(like Tinkers' Construct)

[cubicoder 2]

Thanks, but I don't really need a list (and most of your items were on my list anyway). Also, Forge for 1.13 isn't even out yet, so I'm definitely not in a position to be making tutorials for 1.13 anyway.

[Kaelym 0]

Thank you for the tutorials, any chance you'll be doing more in the future?

[cubicoder 2]

Yeah, there will be more eventually. I'd rather wait until 1.13 to make any new ones because of all the changes, but I might do a few more 1.12.2 tutorials because 1.13 is taking longer than I thought it would. Either way though, I'm really busy with school right now so I don't know when I'll have time to make more tutorials.

[profjb58 0]

So your modding tutorial might be the only one that makes sense without over complicating things, explains everything well and uses the new registry system for 1.12. In short, thanks. It's been a big help in understanding the basics.

 

p.s. a bunch of the changes suggested by @diesieben07 also really helped.

Edited December 15, 2018 by profjb58

[cubicoder 2]

Good to hear! Explaining things well and making sure everything was correct was one of my main goals in these tutorials (which is why I was very appreciative of diesieben07's help earlier).