Detailed Text Tutorial on Creating Tile Entites for MC 1.7.10; Can't Find?

[xKazlyn]

Title says it all, my foray into the modding world has been going smoothly, got some basic ores/tools made as a kinda tutorial for myself, and i'm ready to delve into Tile Entites, but there seems to be NO 1.7 tutorials that are purly text based, i can't stand watching videos of code, since i like to be able to skim code and read/follow each line of code to understand its purpose, and I can't do this with a video sadly. So if anyone could direct me to a well written Forge tile entity tutorial, i would be greatly thankful, google hasn't brought me any useful tutorials yet, so I hope you guys (and girls) would know more than google. Thanks again!

 

[ratchet freak]

unless I'm mistaken I don't think TEs changed all that much from 1.6, look at the vanilla TEs or one of the open source mods how they do it

 

[Strikingwolf]

unless I'm mistaken I don't think TEs changed all that much from 1.6, look at the vanilla TEs or one of the open source mods how they do it

This when learning how to mod it is extremely important to learn from vanilla and open-source mods

 

[Densely]

i have no idea how to do anything with code. furthest i've got was configs (yes i know how comically far from actual code that is)

 

[pizzawolf14]

i have no idea how to do anything with code. furthest i've got was configs :p (yes i know how comically far from actual code that is)[/quote]
Well AFAIK, configs are setting variables, so there's that :p

 

[buggirlexpres]

@ThomazM

--snip--

Ever tried Minetweaker?

 

[ThomazM]

i have no idea how to do anything with code. furthest i've got was configs (yes i know how comically far from actual code that is)

I really wished I could like posts more than once.

 

[chbachman]

What do you need to know, I could probably help.

 

[xKazlyn]

Really all i need is an explanation of the NBT methods. Then a basic skeleton of the needed classes for a tile entity block

 

[Strikingwolf]

Really all i need is an explanation of the NBT methods. Then a basic skeleton of the needed classes for a tile entity block

*digs around tutorial code*
Block Class
Tile Enitity Class (more of an example, but should show you the idea)

 

[SatanicSanta]

Really all i need is an explanation of the NBT methods.

NBT is evil.

 

[ratchet freak]

Really all i need is an explanation of the NBT methods. Then a basic skeleton of the needed classes for a tile entity block

if you can handle XML DOM classes or JSON classes you can handle NBT, the only difference is that NBT is binary based

Key point is that the compound tag is the key-value structure (brace objects "{}" in json) and the list is the array (the brackets list "[]" in JSON) all the rest are the values in various formats

 

[chbachman]

NBT is evil.

NBT is not that hard. Save and load integers based off of strings. Not that bad.

Now if nbttaglist implemented list, that would be nice.

 

[ratchet freak]

NBT is not that hard. Save and load integers based off of strings. Not that bad.

Now if nbttaglist implemented list, that would be nice.

I'm pretty sure you could write a wrapper for it

 

[chbachman]

I'm pretty sure you could write a wrapper for it

I did. But you cannot do some methods. The add(int x) is particularly annoying.

 

[SatanicSanta]

NBT is not that hard. Save and load integers based off of strings. Not that bad.

Every time I've used it it's broken for whatever reason.

 

[Strikingwolf]

Every time I've used it it's broken for whatever reason.

this is hilarious, a should be perfectly functional piece of code for nbt completely broke for him. I had to do some trickery with it