In this part I show you how to add custom menus to your block entities and create a screen to render the menu in the game. This part is based on everything shown in the Basic Container Blocks tutorial. I will cover the differences between a menu and a screen and show you how to […]
After covering some topics regarding Block Entities, in this tutorial I will show you how to add ore generation for your blocks into your Architectury mod. The process is similar for other world features as well, I will give some details regarding this where relevant. Additional Resources The Tutorial Mod used here can be found
In the last part I showed you how to create a custom furnace block, in this part we’re going to add a custom recipe type for our Ruby Furnace. The process I show is similar to fully custom recipe types, although there you need to implement more of the recipe handling yourself. Additional Resources The
After we created a Basic Container Block that stores items in the last part, we will now create a basic furnace block. Our block will then be able to smelt items similar to a regular vanilla furnace. In the next part we will then go the next step and create a custom recipe type for
In this part I show you how to expand your basic block entity from the last part into a container block. Container blocks are all blocks in the game that can store items, like chests or barrels. We will add the item storage related methods to our block entity and make the game open a
In this part we will built upon the directional blocks from the last part and cover block entity basics. We will then built upon those to add functionality to our blocks. We will first modify our Ruby Crate class to allow us to add block entities, create a class for our block entity and register
After covering the basics, I will now show you more advanced things regarding blocks, starting with modding in directional blocks in your Architectury API multiplatform mod. If you want to learn more about the basic registry process for blocks, check out the Basic Blocks guide first. Additional Resources The Tutorial Mod used here can be
After we have added Tools and Swords to the game in the last part, this time we add Armor to Minecraft. Similar to tools we also need to first define an armor material for our armor. A major difference however lies in the rendering of the armor when worn. Additional Resources The Tutorial Mod used
You already know how you can add Basic Items to the game from an earlier part, this time I show you how to add slightly more complex Items, namely Tools and Swords to the game. We will first need to create a tool material, after which we can add the actual tools. Additional Resources The
I have shown how to add Blocks in an earlier part of this series. But these Blocks instantly break when hit even in Survival Mode and they don’t drop anything. In this part you’ll learn how to change this and make our Ruby Block drop itself, and our Ruby Ore drop Rubys depending also on
Now that you have some Blocks and Items in your mod, it is time to make them craftable. Every mod consists of two components: The custom resources, like Items and Blocks, and a vanilla-style datapack for recipes, tags, etc. Therefore we don’t need to write code for our recipes, but just json-Files for the integrated
You know now how to add Blocks and Items to Minecraft using Architectury. To organize all of those tin the same place, a custom creative tab is what you need. To add one you’ll need to do the following steps: Additional Resources The Tutorial Mod used here can be found on GitHub (state after this
Since you now know how to add an item, this time we will add a block. We will again only be using Architectury to achieve this. Some parts are similar to adding an item, but there are some additional steps we need to take. Adding a block consists of the following steps: Additional Resources The
After you have successfully setup your Architectury project, the easiest thing to add to the game is a basic item. Thanks to Architectury we can do this without using any loader specific code. Adding an Item to the game requires four steps: Additional Resources The Tutorial Mod used here can be found on GitHub (state
Minecraft has multiple different mod-loaders, all with different compatibility sets, features and APIs. But when you want to create a mod for the game, the first decision you face is the choice of the mod-loader you use for your mod, with the two most popular choices for the latest version being Fabric and NeoForge. If
