Modding Minecraft: Build Your Own Minecraft Mods!

by Guthals, Stephen Foster

Overview

My kid can mod Minecraft? Oh my!

There’s no doubt about it: Minecraft has taken the world by storm. If your resident Minecraft fanatic is ready to take their experience to a new level of play, introduce them to modding! Modding allows Minecraft players to modify the game through code—giving them the ability to add a variety of gameplay changes, ranging from new blocks and items to new mechanisms to craft. It’s pretty much a Minecraft enthusiast’s dream brought to life! In Modding Minecraft, your child will be introduced to three fun and easy-to-complete projects that teach them the coding skills to make the most of their love of Minecraft.

Walking young readers through projects that outline how to create games in Minecraft for single or multiple players, this friendly and accessible guide takes the intimidation out of coding and instills confidence in children as young as seven as they complete cool coding projects to mod their favorite game. Full-color, eye-popping graphics and a short page count hold their attention while the goal-based format keeps them focused on the task at hand. Before you know it, your kid will be writing their own mods and having even more fun with Minecraft.

• Kids can complete the projects on their own or alongside an adult
• Introduces getting started with a single-player, single-level game
• Moves readers on to multi-level game playing
• Finishes with a multi-level, multi-player game based on the classic “capture the flag” game

With simple and clear instruction that your child can understand, Modding Minecraft is the perfect place for your kid to dig deep and open up a whole new world in their creative play.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781119177296
Publisher:	Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/28/2015
Series:	Mathematics Research Developments Computational Mathematics and Analysis
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	256,829
File size:	18 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Sarah Guthals, Ph.D. is the CTO of ThoughtSTEM and has dedicated her life to coding education.

Stephen Foster, Ph.D. is the CEO of ThoughtSTEM, a company that teaches computer science to kids across America.

Lindsey Handley, Ph.D. is the COO of ThoughtSTEM and has hundreds of hours of experience as a classroom instructor for Minecraft based science and computer science classes.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Part 1: Making Your First Minecraft Mod 7

Project 1: Getting Started on Modding Minecraft 9

Project 2: Earning Modding Badges 37

Project 3: Building and Protecting Structures 62

Part 2: Making Your First Minecraft Minigame 109

Project 4: Making a Single?]Player Game in Minecraft: Spleef 111

Project 5: Making a Multilevel Minecraft Minigame: Monster Arena 142

Project 6: Minecraft Modding with Friends: The Multiplayer Version of Spleef 168

Part 3: Designing and Building a Multiplayer Minigame 189

Project 7: Modding with Projectiles 191

Project 8: Making a Multiplayer Minigame: Capture the Flag 226

Project 9: Iterating on Gameplay Using an Existing Game: Capture the Flag 261

Part 4: Building Your Own Minecraft Minigame 279

Project 10: Building Your Own Game 281

Index 290