Dragoness Eclectic's Journal

An update to my original Minecraft Modding post, focusing on 1.13/1/14 modding and later. Refer to the older post for older versions of Minecraft. The old one got a bit unwieldy for updates.

Not all modding tutorials are useful. Some are outdated, and some were written by people with a shaky grasp on Java, how Minecraft works internally, the MinecraftForge source, or all three. A lot of them are uninformative, because the authors start at the beginning and never get to advanced topics, so you have a lot of tutorials on how to make a basic block, but very few (if any) on how to add new crops or render entities or add new crafting interfaces.

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I finally pushed out Simple Ores: Machines for 1.15.2. & 1.14.4. I added mythril and onyx versions of the smoker and blast furnace, to go along with the mythril & onyx furnaces.

I got tired of worrying about villagers all the time, and needed some space. I moved out of my village in Burnsquare and found a distant mountain-top in a taiga biome, where I plan to build a mountain villa. Of course, I then decided that white terracotta with spruce timber framing was The Only Possibility for the looks. Spruce framing is a natural for living in a taiga biome, but white terracotta? Not so much.

No way was I going to dig and fire and dye that much clay, so I looked up where my server-mates had found badlands biomes and set off towards the nearest one. After dragging my horse across countless rivers and hacking through endless woods, we finally found the badlands area at the seashore. Never will I use a horse for exploration again!

I built a small paddock for the horse, a hut near the quarry, and a warehouse with chests for all the terracotta I planned to dig, and spent a couple of Minecraft weeks digging out terracotta clay. Finally I decided that I couldn't practically carry any more, and tried to find my way back to local civilzation. See, I'd gotten quite lost on my way to Red Sands Pt (my name for the ocean-side badlands).

I built a boat and traveled north along the shore until I hit signs of "civilization" (i.e., something built by a player)--one of my own huts from an earlier phase of exploration! Since it was also near a marked trail (kinda, it lead nowhere useful) someone else had made, I declared it my harbor for travel to and from the badlands quarry. I built a dock, and dubbed the area with the hut 'Dandelion Pt', on account of all the dandelions. Finally, I started working my way cross-country to the east, looking for the built-up area around Main Base (& Spawn), marking my way with lighted stone pillars and overnight way huts with campfires. Eventually I hit the Main Base area itself--in fact, my last way hut had been nearly in bowshot range of an outlying building just over the hill