Modded Minecraft Tutorials

Tutorials on Modded Minecraft, "How To" and "Setup Coding".

Go to Eclipse Setup Tutorial | Go to Create Class Tutorial
Tutorial Setup on other than Windows and a more complete tutorial is comming!
Unsure if your Windows PC is a 64-bit or a 32-bit just download all blue marked downloads and you'll be fine.

Eclipse

Eclipse

Eclipse IDE for Java Developers is the programming environment where you type in all code and then "Compile" it and see if code running correctly otherwise you only get an error message.

Forge, Java JDK & JRE

Forge, Java JDK & Java JRE

Forge is a minecraft libraries witch enables you to create mods on both client-side and server-side to customize new blocks, fuel, trees and add machines etc.

Java SE JDK is libraries for eclipse compiler so coding becomes available.

Java SE JRE is also libraries and a component to start playing Minecraft in general.

WinRaR & Notepad++

WinRaR & Notepad++

WinRaR is an alternative program that we recommend for unzipping archived files.

Notepad++ is an alternative program that we recommend for the mcmod.info file that we are going to configurate in this tutorial.

Java JRE & JDK

Make sure you have Java installed

Make sure you have downloaded Java SE JRE and Java SE JDK and then install them default on local system disc or on same drive.

If you don't have it go to Java.com and download latest JRE and JDK

Download the exact same version of both the Java SE JRE and the Java SE JDK

Forge zip file (SRC >= MDK)

Extract the archived file

You need to extract the forge.zip file

Bellow is the current latest FML: SRC = MDK

Updated current latest FML: 1.13.2

Forge files

Extracted files

Now you see these files.

These Files

Extract to folder

First you need to extract files from the forge zip file into a folder.

Open Command Window Here

Shift Right Click in folder

UPDATE: PowerShell will be there instead! First type CMD and hit enter then this:

You need to open a command window inside your folder so if you click and hold Shift-key and then right click otherwise you cannot get the option Open command window here.

Command Window

Windows PowerShell / Windows Command Prompt

Now a window would have appeared (A window with black background and white text).

UPDATE: Or a (PowerShell) window with blue background with white text

Type or Copy: gradlew setupDecompWorkspace --refresh-dependencies and paste it to the window (In Command Prompt, Right click for paste) then click on enter and it will download most requirements: Minecraft, MCP(Mod Coder Pack), Java Libraries, Gradle, Forge and FML.

UPDATE for Eclipse: gradlew eclipse.

UPDATE for IntellJ: gradlew setupDecompWorkspace IdeaModule. Import build.gradle as project in IntellJ: File > Project Struckture > Modules click the add plus-button: + > click Import. Choose a folder name. Close IntellJ. Run: run gradlew genIntellijruns....

 gradlew setupDecompWorkspace --refresh-dependencies

UPDATE for 1.13.2:

 gradlew eclipse

Downloading files, Time depends on your internet speed.

When all is done successful it will show this in the end of the Command Window:

The last thing

The last command to type into CMD

Then type the following line if you want to use Eclipse IDE:

gradlew eclipse

Now you can close the Command Window and start Eclipse!

Close the Command Prompt with style by typing:
exit

Start Eclipse

Ready to start Eclipse!

Now you can find your Eclipse and start it and continue to next step.