Questions tagged [minecraft-modding]
For questions about modding Minecraft, regardless of the edition.
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How could I implement something like Minecraft's crafting grid?
The crafting system in Minecraft uses a 2x2 or 3x3 grid. You place ingredients on the grid, and if you put the right ingredients in the right pattern, it will activate the recipe.
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How can I improve rendering speeds of a Voxel/Minecraft type game?
I'm writing my own clone of Minecraft (also written in Java). It works great right now. With a viewing distance of 40 meters I can easily hit 60 FPS on my MacBook Pro 8,1. (Intel i5 + Intel HD ...
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Random seed function for map generation?
I am looking for a function to generate a random tile-based map as the visual boundaries of the map change (by going through the map). I want the map to be infinitely large, and have maze-like ...
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Is a voxel engine appropriate for a Minecraft-like game?
Why does Minecraft use polygons to draw the world terrain instead of voxels? Would a voxel based rendering engine be appropriate for a fully destructible game world built out of cubes like Minecraft? ...
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How is a 3d perlin noise function used to generate terrain?
I can wrap my head around using a 2d perlin noise function to generate the height value but I don't understand why a 3d perlin noise function would be used. In Notch's blog, http://notch.tumblr.com/...
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How can I generate floating land masses for a Minecraft-like engine?
I am creating a Minecraft-like engine in XNA. What I want to do is create floating islands similar to the one shown in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqHVOEPQK5g&feature=related
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What is a good algorithm for fractal-based procedural city layout?
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I run a minecraft server where I'm going to design a starter city of fairly large scale. I have a series of things, like rule signs and mob cages, I would like to put in buildings there. ...
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How do I add a custom mob to Minecraft?
Basically decided to make my own mob, I have:
Created my mob's entity class
Created my mobs model class
Drawn the model
Added the function call for addMapping within the EntityList class
I'm stuck ...
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Why is chunk size often a power of two?
There are many Minecraft clones out there and I am working on my own implementation. A principle of terrain rendering is tiling the whole world in fixed size chunks to reduce the effort of localized ...
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How do Minecraft know where village's buildings are if the village is not generated yet?
I'm trying to understand how chunk generation works in a deep level and all the information I found does not explain how the villages are generated properly without visual glitches during generation.
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How to get the blocks seen by the player?
I'm writing a Minecraft-like game using Ogre engine and I have a problem. I must optimize my game, because when I try draw 10000 blocks, I have 2 FPS... So, I got the idea that blocks display of the ...
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How can I implement voxel-based lighting with occlusion in a Minecraft-style game?
I am using C# and XNA. My current algorithm for lighting is a recursive method. However, it is expensive, to the point where one 8x128x8 chunk calculated every 5 seconds.
Are there other lighting ...
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Cave generation with Perlin worms
I'm currently trying to generate a Minecraft like voxel terrain with 3D Simplex Noise and also want to implement caves.
I found the method of Perlin Worms in this thread, which generates really nice ...
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Am I allowed to make my Minecraft clone open source?
I'm developing in my spare time a game like Minecraft. In fact, it isn't "like Minecraft", because I'm trying to make it a close as possible copy of it (meant as exercise for myself at the age of 16 ...
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Are the Minecraft animations hardcoded into the game? [closed]
I would like to know how the animation system works in minecraft. I get a feeling that all the mobs are hardcoded into the game. Did notch really sit there and create the matrices for all the ...
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How do you make Minecraft mods? [closed]
I want to make my own Minecraft mods and I'm wondering what I need to do to get started. Is there any good software or anything for it?
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What is Minecraft's database? [closed]
I was wondering, what kind of database does Minecraft use? Is it a relational database, maybe something common like MySQL? Do we even know what he's using?
And maybe even a better question, SHOULD ...
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What kind of hardware would be required to render an Earth sized minecraft like map?
I have been thinking about this problem. Is it possible with current technology to create a 1:1 replica of the earth in voxel based game? What's the best data structure to store this giant map? Which ...
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Mods for Minecraft Server - how does it work?
Minecraft server comes as a single jar. How are mods developed? How do they interact with the original jar? What is there under the hood?
What technologies are involved there? I'm mostly a C++/Python ...
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How to remove jitter from motion input?
I am writing a Minecraft mod that supports input from the Razer Hydra. It is a pair of motion controllers (one for each hand) that provide incredibly accurate position and rotation information.
For ...
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Can someone explain radiosity lighting to me?
I already have the basics of ambient occlusion down. I have a raycaster and am capable of shooting rays about a hemisphere uniformly. It seems like those are the basics of what are needed for ...
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How to handle a Block World like Minecraft
I want to write a simple game with a block world like in Minecraft. My theoretical question is what is the best way to handle this block informations during playing. My first Idea was a huge array but ...
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Determining if player-created structure matches a template in a 3D block-based game
Disclaimer: this is one of those dreaded Minecraft-style questions, but I feel it's more a data structures and algorithms question
I'm really new to 3D data structures and am wondering what the best ...
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How to load stacking chunks on the fly?
I'm currently working on an infinite world, mostly inspired by minecraft.
A Chunk consists of 16x16x16 blocks. A block(cube) is 1x1x1.
This runs very smoothly with a ViewRange of 12 Chunks (12x16) ...
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How to find the entity I'm looking at?
I am currently making a mod for Minecraft but I have come to a stop because I am lacking in some knowledge. I need to get data for the entity I am looking at, which I believe requires the use vectors, ...
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Voxel heightmap terrain editor
I've recently been experimenting with a simple Voxel-based 3d engine (think Minecraft) which uses heightmaps to define terrain in the following format:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heightmap
Does ...
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How do I modify the health of an entity after it has been created?
Is there any way to add or remove health after an entity has been created?
For example, I'd like to have a mob regenerate "hearts" when some event happens.
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Minecraft Mod portable torch/lantern
I have just started making a mod for minecraft, I learned how to make items and import custom png's and have gotten all of that to work. I have been searching around the code trying to find a way to ...
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Minecraft-style player-gound collision detection
The title pretty much says it all... (Minecraft is a game consisting of evenly-spaced cubes for terrain, like voxels)
Note: I am using C# XNA.
I am pretty sure AABB is the way to go, yet I don't know ...
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Merging adjacent cubes into large ones
I am currently working on a basic minecraft like game.
I have a list of coordinates using which i render instances of a cube model.
To optimize my rendering, i need to merge similar adjacent cubes ...
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How to make blocks like "redstone" working in a minecraft-like game when the chunks are not loaded
I'm working on a 2D minecraft-like game, I use chunks to save my world and each chunk has 128*128 blocks in it.
And infinite chunks can create an infinite world.
Memory should never be infinite and ...
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Why is Minecraft's default resolution (seemingly) non-standard? [closed]
Background: I'm writing some articles on Minecraft in an attempt to introduce 10-year olds to development through modding. I know very little about the game itself, though :)
I'm trying to understand ...
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Why would someone chose midpoint displacement over perlin noise for 3D terrain generation?
I myself am creating a terrain generation algorithm and would be interested in knowing why others have chosen midpoint displacement over perlin noise. Minecraft is an example where midpoint ...
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Texture antialiasing?
In my Minecraft-clone style game, blocks are textured with a border that is lighter then the block color. See picture below:
To achieve this effect without the textures being blurry I use this code:
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Drawing 2D Images "3D-Like"
So, I want to use textures for weapons in my FPS game instead of actual models. However, if I just draw the texture onto a square in the game, it has the rotation and stuff, but it looks "2D". How ...
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Programming with Python in a recent version of Minecraft
I've been teaching Python programming to a friend's son using the book Adventures in Minecraft. This book comes with a starter kit that contains a pre-configured Bukkit (v.1.6.4) server, and targets ...
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Dealing with occlusion in an isometric sandbox game
Imagine a 3D sandbox game like Minecraft with third-person isometric graphics. If the camera only moves in two dimensions, and doesn't rotate, then a large portion of the world will always be occluded ...
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How does this snippet of code create a ray direction vector?
In the Minecraft source code, this code is used to create a direction vector for a ray from pitch and yaw:'
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Where do I store (or how do I refer to) textures for custom blocks?
I'm making my first foray into Minecraft modding on Ubuntu using Minecraft Forge. I'm finding it a little hard to get started as many of the tutorials seem to refer to older versions of Minecraft (e.g....
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How can I render "two-sided" clouds like in Minecraft?
The clouds in Minecraft are semi-transparent and are rendered on both sides. If you fly into the cloud you can see inside of the cloud.
If I render clouds the inside faces would be visible on the ...
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Scoreboard setdisplay list shows correctly per char. Can i make my sidebar show correctly per char as well?
So I've been writing a script over the last little while in Python that interacts with the Minecraft console. I'm basically trying to make a scoreboard based currency system that is world independent ...
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I'm a single developer making a game made of blocks. Can I make 3d characters made of blocks without looking like Minecraft?
I would like to differentiate the look as much as I can but yet it has to be within the limits of what is reasonable for a single programmer can do. I have alot of ideas that would make the game ...
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Concerning The Minecraft Skybox
I was wondering how does the stars in night time in minecraft work, are they point sprites? And are they placed on a texture or just randomly placed on some far away location.
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How does Minecraft render its sunset and sky?
In Minecraft, the sunset looks really beautiful and I've always wanted to know how they do it.
Do they use several skyboxes rendered over eachother? That is, one for the sky (which can turn dark and ...
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Name of this technique used in games such as Minecraft or the sims
In Minecraft, there are some blocks which are a little bit different than just cubes.
For example stairs or fences: these elements are "aware" of their surrounding blocks and render differently based ...
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How do I get the number of online players in a Minecraft server from outside the client?
I know that the Minecraft client can query the server for number of players and maximum players, even when the server properties has enable-query set to ...
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How can I create a Minecraft: Bedrock Edition add-on?
I would like to create a custom add-on for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition, but I'm not understanding everything involved with getting started. After reading a few tutorials, I have some understanding of ...
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How do i store blocks information in my Voxel game?
I am trying to make a voxel game.
Voxel games made by blocks and each block has it's own information such as durability, step sounds, strength, ...
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Weird block selector selection (to floor or not to floor)?
Well, I am creating a Minecraft like engine in XNA, and since I first implemented the block selector (the cube that allows you to select blocks in 3D space) it has always been very inaccurate. Here is ...
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How do I add a method to a class without editing the source file?
I am trying to add a method to a Minecraft source file, but I have to figure out how to do it without actually editing the source files, as it would be illegal to redistribute Minecraft's source files ...
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