Questions tagged [minecraft-modding]
For questions about modding Minecraft, regardless of the edition.
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How to create a minecraft style world that is based of a heightmap
For my game I am trying to create a Minecraft style world that is based off a heightmap that I made In Photoshop. I am trying to make the map which is 7km squared where each cube is 1m cubed but I ...
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Minecraft Forge 1.8 referencing mod problem
I'm trying to make a Minecraft Forge mod. I've done this before, but I've never worked with entities. So I was trying to add an entity to the EntityRegistry, but I ...
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How to get an AbstractClientPlayer for all players?
I'm working on an minecraft forge mod (1.8.8). I have en custom (ownable) entity and want to set its texture to the texture of its owner, because it's a mini version of the owner.
I found out that i ...
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I can't create a "trap" block
So, I am trying to make a "trap" block. It should kill the entity that will stand on it(or walk as in the code, if somebody knows how to make that it will do something while an entity stands on it, it ...
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How to setup for live player / observer pair w/ voice chat in Minecraft
I'm trying to build a setup for educational use of Minecraft:
One person plays Minecraft, another person watches live online with the least lag/latency possible, and the pair can talk over high-...
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Minecraft modding: onLanded and item type/positioning?
My question is about programming Minecraft mods. So i added a block to my Mod. Now I want, that when you drop a sugar on it, that it waits some time and then, if the sugar is still there, it will ...
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Why does Forge not find my texture for my custom background?
I am creating a minecraft mod that improves the main menu for my minecraft server. At first I wanted to create the background, but somehow when I try to start minecraft it closes and I get a ...
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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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Minecraft Forge modding 1.8 instance changing tool/armor material + color
I am developing a minecraft mod in forge, and I need to find a way to create tools and armor where individual instances of items would have different tool material properties, armor material ...
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What's the difference between an .nbt and an .mca file?
What do I have to do if I want to save a .nbt file as .mca file? I got a byte array and all the data is OK. If I save the contents as a .nbt file I can open and view it with NBTExplorer. If I save it ...
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How animated block in voxel engine?
In my voxel engine (XNA 4.0) I'm use a vertex buffer for the entire chunk and update it after the set block, changing block metadata or light level. This is not too frequent operation compared with ...
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Calculating pitch angle to hit a target using a projectile that has fixed speed
I am trying to calculate a vertical angle needed to hit a target at [distance, elevation] 2D coordinates relative to shooter given a fixed projectile
velocity, air ...
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How do I get to ModPE to perform a function the first time a mod is opened?
I am making a Minecraft PE mod and I want to set a variable only on the first launch of the mod. So, how do I make it it set the variable and then not set it again until I import the mod again?
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How does Minecraft render chunks? [duplicate]
I'm writing a simple Minecraft like game to test out a few world gen algorithms and to learn more about OpenGL. My first render code was glBegin() ... glEnd() style....
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How can I check if player is an operator in Forge?
In Minecraft Forge, I would like to know if there is any way to find out if a player currently has vanilla "OP" / "Operator" status. I can't find a method that does this on the EntityPlayer Class.
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Minecraft Modding - How do I use OpenGL stencil functions alongside the game's GlStateManager?
Note: I am using Minecraft Coder Pack 9.10 for game version 1.8.0 (official release).
I am trying to make a multiline text field similar to the game's original net.minecraft.client.gui.GuiTextField. ...
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Minecraft Forge setTextureName method not working
I am attempting to make an item using the latest version of Forge. For some reason, the setTextureName method gives me an error that says:
The method setTextureName(String) is undefined for the ...
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(Minecraft) MoveHelper for custom entity not updating
I'm trying to create a shark mob for minecraft 1.8 (using Forge 1.8). Since it's a water mob, the movement functions need to be edited to allow it to path correctly in water.
However, after ...
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What makes Minecraft so CPU intensive, and what could be done to improve it? [closed]
Recently I've been searching for VPSes that allow Minecraft servers to be hosted, and surprisingly very few do. Most allow for games - but Minecraft in specific is disallowed by many.
Now it's fairly ...
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Minecraft Forge Look for Entities in a Certain Location
The title mostly explains it. I have a tile entity that is called Energizer. I want this energizer to check to see if there is an EntityItem on top of it and if so, consume it and create energy. The ...
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Does anyone know what technique was used in Minecraft to create shadows? [closed]
Specifically I want to know the technique used to render shadows under animals and players.
I would like to create shadows like that for my own block game but I don't even know what to google. Any ...
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Storing a block world
I've gotten a basic Minecraft clone working (thanks to gamedev.stackexchange's help! ^_^), but know I have no idea how to save the file.
Minecraft itself uses a naive list of block ids as far as I ...
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Is Minecraft component-based or does it have class for every block? [closed]
I'm wondering if Minecraft has class for every type of block or blocks are just IDs in code.
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And what about data like transparency, resistance, hardness, tool, etc? Are they hardcoded or stored ...
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What are names like "net.minecraft.blocks" called? [closed]
I'm trying to find these types of names for certain Minecraft blocks to add them to a block whitelist for one of my mods. Is there an actual name for these? If not, how would I go about finding a list ...
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Is there a way to drain durability from an item instead of a sword, for instance?
I am modding Minecraft 1.8 using Eclipse with Forge, and I just wondered, is there a way to drain durability from a battery, for instance, instead of a piece of armor when hit.
I have tried things ...
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Creating a queue for BeginInvoke method - loading chunks
I have a voxel game similar to Minecraft. I have a funciton PushLoadedChunks(Direction) that pushes all of the loaded chunks forward, backward, left, right. This is done with sfd.BeginInvoke(...
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Sending block chunks through TCP
I am creating a 'Minecraft clone' and the game is going to be only multiplayer. I currently have a limited world (it's not going to be infinite) that is 512 chunks.
Each chunk is 16(X) * 16(Z) * 128(...
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minecraft source code for use in mods
So I am teaching a class where we will be using java to make minecraft mods. To keep things simple, we are using a third party program to set up the under-the-hood stuff for us (that way we don't have ...
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Minecraft - how do I add a PNG for a new Mob to either assets or resourcepacks
I've installed MCP and set up eclipse and successfully added my new monster to the game. It spawns properly and does everything I meant it to do. The only problem I still have is that the texture that ...
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How do I make a Minecraft recipe that costs XP?
I want to program a Minecraft client-mod or server-plugin that adds a recipe for making a Bottle o' Enchanting with the following ingredients:
1 glass bottle + 1 lvl of experience → 1 Bottle o' ...
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minecraft mapping from tibia OTBM file
I am new to minecraft modding but i program for a living and it looks quite simple to get around. I have this fantasy and a quick internet search shows im not the only one. For those of you who do not ...
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MCP 1.7.10 Java class navigation [closed]
So, I'm new to the Minecraft modding community and trying to understand where to start. I've attempted to do it before, but dropped it to the complexity of starting and the lack of a site like this to ...
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How can I read a portion of one Minecraft world file and write it into another?
I'm looking to read block data from one Minecraft world and write the data into certain places in another.
I have a Minecraft world, let's say "TemplateWorld", and a 2D list of Point objects. I'm ...
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What kind of algorithms could I use to generate biome borders like in Minecraft? [duplicate]
After I've found this post I'm curious what kind of algorithms they use to generate these shapes (second image).
I can't imagine that the basic shapes are basing on a perlin or simplex noise or a ...
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TileEntitySpecialRenderer only renders from certain angle
I'm developing a Minecraft mod with Forge. I've added a tileentity and a custom renderer for it. The problem is: The block is only visible from sertain angles. I've compaed my code to other peoples ...
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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 do I decompile Minecraft?
I'm trying to get started modding Minecraft. I opened up the minecraft.jar file in Eclipse, but it doesn't contain what I expected.
In this tutorial the presenter ...
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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 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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How can I mod Minecraft 1.7.9?
I've looked up a lot of tutorials on YouTube and all of them only work for versions of Minecraft prior to 1.7.9.
I first got a Minecraft Coder Pack (MCP) off of this website, but then realized that ...
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How does the minecraft main menu play a "movie" [closed]
I've been wondering for a while, and been doing a lot of research on the subject: how does the main menu in minecraft play a "video". As far as i can tell, it's not a .gif, it appears to be a movie. ...
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What can I do about a "missing mcp.cfg" error?
I am trying to use MCP. After trying to run decompile.sh, I manually ran decompile.py, getting the error "...
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Create multiple viewports in minecraft?
Im new to minecraft modding, but Im curious about the possibility of creating a mod such that players could set up a 'security camera' with its own viewport so that the player could 'see what the ...
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Why aren't ModLoader's decompiled files showing up?
I want to start making a Minecraft 1.6.4 mod, but have this trouble with ModLoader:
I've run the decompile.bat batch file, but when opening the ...
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Rasterizing parametric solids in Minecraft voxel space
I'm trying to render giant procedurally generated trees in Minecraft. I have code that generates a tree model and represents it parametrically as a collection of cones and spheres using vectors and ...
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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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Create a tornado like particle movement, based on velocity
For context i'm using Java and Minecraft Forge, however the concept should be fairly standard. To spawn particles you use this function...
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How can I get the entity a player is looking at in a Bukkit plugin?
I'm creating a wizardry plugin for Minecraft, and I was wondering how you would get the entity that a player was looking at, I know that you would have to use a ...
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Why Minecraft has such a terrible backward compatibility? [closed]
For every release of Minecraft, even a minor release, is almost guaranteed to break some plugins or mod.
Why is this so? I am asking this so that we could avoid the same architecture problem as ...
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Block With Given ID Does Not Exist - Minecraft Mod
I have tried to make my own Minecraft Block using Forge, but for some reason, when I use /give Playerxxx 1000 1 the game says, <...
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