What to do if I don't know how to do something

[woofer]

Hey! This is a very general and open-ended question that I have. My question is, when you don't know how to do something in your mod, what do you do? Do you ask for help on the forums? Read documentation? If so, what? Thanks!

[Godis_apan]

1. Look for vanilla code that handles this and see if that is helpful.
2. Check forge documentation.

3. Search the forge modder support for similar questions or issues.

4. Check established GitHub repos such as choonster’s or cadiboo’s.

5. Ask myself here

Edited February 21, 2021 by Godis_apan

[woofer]

4 minutes ago, Godis_apan said:

1. Look for vanilla code that handles this and see if that is helpful.
2. Check forge documentation.

3. Search the forge modder support for similar questions or issues.

4. Check established GitHub repos such as choonster’s or cadiboo’s.

5. Ask myself here

Great, thanks. Quick clarification questions - by "look for vanilla code," do you mean to look at some of the Minecraft classes? Finally, which forge documentation are you referring to? Thanks!

[Godis_apan]

Yes, I mean the vanilla classes. So if I’m doing a new block for instance, I look at vanilla block classes that does something similar.

For documentation I’m using: https://mcforge.readthedocs.io/

Edited February 21, 2021 by Godis_apan

[woofer]

1 hour ago, Godis_apan said:

Yes, I mean the vanilla classes. So if I’m doing a new block for instance, I look at vanilla block classes that does something similar.

For documentation I’m using: https://mcforge.readthedocs.io/

Awesome, thanks!