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Sams Teach Yourself Minecraft Mod Development in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself in 24 Hours) Paperback – September 20, 2014

by Jimmy Koene (Author)

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In Full Color! In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, Sams Teach Yourself Minecraft Mod Development in 24 Hours will help you transform Minecraft into anything you can imagine--and share your vision with millions of players worldwide! You’ll learn all the mod development skills you need as you walk through a complete step-by-step project, complete with a mob, new tools, new armor, food, ores, and much more. Every lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for building any mod and creating any world! Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Minecraft mod development tasks. Quizzes and exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge. Notes present interesting information related to the discussion. Tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks. Cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them. Learn how to... Set up the environment where you’ll wri

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Jimmy Koene maintains one of the world’s most popular Minecraft® mod websites (www.wuppy29.com/minecraft/modding-tutorials/forge-modding/). He is one of the only Minecraft® modders who consistently maintains and updates his online tutorials. Also an expert Java and C++ programmer, he has written an Android Minecraft® app that has been downloaded more than 30,000 times along with various other smaller apps. He also maintains several Minecraft® mods that cover many different aspects of Minecraft®, ranging from slight changes to how food works to mods that completely change the way you play.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sams; 1st edition (September 20, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 413 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0672337193
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0672337192
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.79 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1 x 9.25 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #2,437,451 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #425 in Minecraft Guides
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Christopher Kona

Exactly what I was looking for, it covered how ...

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2015

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Exactly what I was looking for, it covered how to use Forge to make basic mod changes, and provided a reference for conventions used. It pays to at least have a comp sci 1 background in Java though.

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No One

Useful: Covers Common Elements of Modding in Sufficient Detail

Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2015

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Before getting this book I had already created a moderately successful mod (Doomlike Dungeons) for Minecraft 1.5.2 and updated it to versions 1.6, 1.7, and 1.8 of the game, as well as a couple smaller mod (one of which is silly and will never be released, the other is hidden in my Adventrues of the Ancients modpack to round things out and tie them together). So, you might be asking now, why would I read a book about modding when I can already do it? Well, there are other areas of modding that I've not done much with. Having a information on common aspects of Minecraft modding in a convenient, self-contained package is something that could save many hours of either digging blindly through the games source code (though that can still be useful) or searching for tutorials online. I find this book well written and complete for the topics it covers (I do wish I had a section on dimension modding). For someone new to modding this should teach them all the basics. The description of Java concepts is a bit awkward and simplistic, but for Minecraft and Forge related material is quite good. It would have been nice to have had this when I first started learning to mod.

Now, for a complaint I've see: this is for 1.7.10, not the latest 1.8 version of the game. Well, any book you get will likely be behind when or soon after its release -- new updates keep coming out, and probably will as long as people keep buying the game. The good news is this: Once you know how to do something with one version you have a good starting place for figuring out other versions, even if the new (or older) way is a little different.

On another key point is Java language and programming in general. You actually can create simple mods without really knowing Java by just following instructions by rote. But, learning Java will pay off greatly -- when you understand Java many things that might seem arbitrary start to make sense. Knowing Java also lets you begin reading the Minecraft soruce code itself and going beyond what others tell you in books, videos, or other sources. An understanding of Java will give you far more freedom and power, allowing more creativity in your mods. Therefore I would recommend a book like Teach Yourself Java in 21 days (or 24 hours) for those with know programming experience and younger readers. The freely available Java tutorials from Oracle are also very good if you have some programming experience. If you really want to fully unleash you creativity the book Game Programming Patterns and a beginning book on algorithms and data structures and/or game programming will take you to the next level. Without and understanding of data structures and algorithms Doomlike Dungeons would not exist.

All around I would recommend this book to anyone starting out modding Minecraft, but again, not without a beginning Java book unless you are already a Java programmer (fortunately I was).

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Shaun Thompson

Software install is flawed.

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2016

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Couldn't get the software installed.

Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2016

Good book

Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2015

My nephew loves it!

Well written, but useless.

Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2015

The book itself is well written and COULD be useful. HOWEVER, since Minecraft has been updated to version 1.8, this book is outdated beyond chapter 3. If you want to write mods for version 1.7 or below, I guess the code from the book should work. Otherwise, plan on searching the web to find fixes and how to implement the methods. This essentially makes the book pointless, if I wanted to search the web for tutorials and how to do things, I wouldn't have paid for the book. There should be code updates and errata on the web site, but all that's there is the code directly from the book. I'll compare this to buying a new Visual C++ book and finding out it's only good for Visual C++ 6.0, but you're trying to write code in Visual Studio 2013.

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Willie Wheeler

Solid book. My kids use it to create mods.

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2015

Great book. Haven't gone through the whole thing yet, but I was creating my first crafting recipe within 30 minutes.

Note however that I have prior Java development experience. The author makes a good effort to cover the basics, like installing Java and Eclipse. But I think that somebody without prior Java experience (including things like Eclipse, Gradle plugin, etc.) may struggle, and somebody without any dev experience will struggle a lot. Not the author's fault--it's just the reality that you need some dev background to diagnose even the simple errors that occur in the normal course of coding.

Having said that, with help my young kids (under 10, no real coding experience) are able to use the book to create mods, and they're having a great time. That's what I would have expected from the book and it delivers that.

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QB

cant find files at the start of the book

Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2015

I have no development experience but I couldn't even get past setting up forge.I followed the book exactly and cant find the file, "gradlew.bat" in spite of having the latest 1.7.10 forge ( i couldnt find it in any of the other versions of forge i have installed either so i am unable to run the gradlew commands in the cmd window. I have googled this with no solution. I dont understand how the people here got past this step. now I'm stuck with an expensive paperweight.

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Wacki

brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 19, 2014

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In short: This book is brilliant!
It explains in small and easy to understand steps how to set up the necessary development tools (eclipse, forge) and thankfully uses not just text but Pictures!!! Starting from an almost empty example mod (the “Hello world” of mod development) you add complexity in small steps to your mod and test it in Minecraft.
I use this to get my son (10y) into Java programming and he absolutely loves it already. The book doesn’t assume any programming knowledge (I don’t know Java), you learn, what’s necessary on the way. I was surprised in how little time you can get to mod development and change Minecraft in your own way. This is no replacement for a Java course/book, but gets you to mod development as fast as possible and whets your appetite on more Java. I would like to add that I contacted the author already about a question I had and he responded super quickly.

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Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 3, 2015

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