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Building Minecraft Server Modifications - Second Edition

By : Cody M. Sommer
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Book Image

Building Minecraft Server Modifications - Second Edition

4 (1)
By: Cody M. Sommer

Overview of this book

Minecraft is a sandbox game that allows you to play it in any way you want. Coupled with a multiplayer server powered by Spigot, you can customize the game even more! Using the Bukkit API, anyone interested in learning how to program can control their Minecraft world by developing server plugins. This book is a great introduction to software development through the wonderful world of Minecraft. We start by instructing you through how to set up your home PC for Minecraft server development. This includes an IDE complete with the required libraries as well as a Spigot server to test on. You will be guided through writing code for several different plugins. Each chapter teaches you new skills to create plugins of increasing complexity, and each plugin adds a new concept of the Bukkit API By the end of the book, you will have all the knowledge you need about the API to successfully create any type of plugin. You can then practice and build your Java skills through developing more mods for their server.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building Minecraft Server Modifications Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


If you have any trouble figuring out any of the problems mentioned in the challenges or with any other portion of the Bukkit API you can ask help from the Spigot forums (www.spigotmc.org/forums), the official IRC channel for Spigot (www.spigotmc.org/pages/irc), and the Minecraft forums (www.minecraftforum.net).

You can also contact me directly or visit my website at www.codisimus.com. I am always interested in helping out a fellow developer.

You now have the knowledge required to begin programming your own Bukkit plugins. As we did in this chapter, we will have to refer to the documentation to find the required information. Being able to navigate and understand the API documentation will speed up the process of coding. If you are ever unsure of a section of the API, you now know how to find the information that you need. In the next chapter, we'll use the Bukkit API to begin writing code to create your first Bukkit plugin.