Minecraft Modding with Forge

This is for the Indian edition printed locally. The binding doesn't open as flat as the original O'Reilly books but for this price, you can't really complain.The paper is also of a fairly poor quality.The book should be used as a reference to find things on the net. Minecraft is known for breaking backward compatibility, so anything in print should be taken as obsolete. Having said that, there are obvious gaps in the book's very first chapter, where the instructions for downloading and installing the tools are either wrong, or incomplete. I suggest using the Forge wikipedia articles instead of this book. Also, be aware that they use Windows as a reference, so Mac and Linux users will have to adapt the instructions for their systems.You also need to know Java to get around this book. It's also not really written for children. It's more for parents who are comfortable with programming in general and Java in particular. If you expect to pick this up and write a new mod from scratch, think again. It's better suited for tweaking example mods given in this book and elsewhere.

Too much of the code does not work and some of it is not easy to fix as a newbie to Forge. I have plenty of programming experience. Very frustrating. The website has some errata but that still doesn't help. The code is broke, I have used the source code. If you don't want to keep it up to date, stop selling the book. It is zero fun as a newbie having no idea why it doesn't work.

Appears well written and informative.

Vorausgesetzt man ist kein kompletter Eclipse / Java Neuling stellt dieses Buch eine perfekte Einstiegshilfe für die Entwicklung von Minecraft Mods mit Forge dar. Es kann ein komplettes Beispiel-Projekt zum Buch heruntergeladen werden, das einem dabei hilft, selbst in kürzester Zeit kleine Mods zu entwickeln.Zwei Hinweise mögen hilfreich sein, damit man sich nicht zu viel erwartet:- Es wird nur Forge für Minecraft 1.8 behandelt. Wer noch Mods für 1.7.10 entwickeln möchte, wird mit diesem Buch nicht sehr viel anfangen können.- Komplexere Themen wie WorldGen, Biome- und Dimension-Handling etc. werden nicht behandelt.

海外書店からの購入が初めてでしたが、期日の早めに届き、梱包も全く問題ありませんでした。

An excellent book for getting started on Minecraft Modding, even with very limited programming experience. ONE IMPORTANT NOTE: while the concept and java components are still accurate, Minecraft Forge (modding component) has undergone a significant re-write recently, which has made some of the lessons incorrect.For example, the first Mod lesson as written in the book: public void sendMessage(BreakEvent event) { event.getPlayer().addChatMessage( new ChatComponentText (EnumChatFormatting.GOLD + "You broke a block!")); }The above won't work if writing mods for 1.10 or higher (1.11 is current version). Forge has changed the ChatComponent object model. Below is the corrected version, for reference: public void sendMessage(BreakEvent event) { event.getPlayer().addChatComponentMessage( new TextComponentString (TextFormatting.GOLD + "You broke a block!")); }Note that "ChatComponentText" was changed to "TextComponentString", and "EnumChatFormatting" was turned into "TextFormatting".MOST of the lessons still work with little-to-no tweaking needed. Also, Eclipse is a good Java editor, and will pop up viable options after typing the period (aka type in TextFormatting, then hit the period - Eclipse will present a list of viable options for what comes next). This helps quickly figure out any slight changes needed.It is unfortunate that the very first lesson was one that required some minor tweaks. I could see this discouraging people early on, when in fact, most of the lessons will work fine.I understand and appreciate that printed tech books will go out-of-date. The only reason I took one star off was because the author made several references to keeping online supplemental material (primarily on github) up-to-date, which as far as i could find, was not the case. I downloaded all the code examples, and found them identical to the book.It would require a very minimal amount of effort to keep the examples up-to-date with the newer object models, hence making the book more useful for a longer time (and presumably sell more copies).