Moderate Minecraft Modding Tutorial Part 1: Setting Up with IntelliJ Part 1

Hello, everyone! I know I've been gone for a while, and I am sorry about that, but I am back with even better tutorials! I am going to show you how you can make even better mods with even better code! I will start with showing you how to set up your environment with JetBrains IDEA IntelliJ (which is now my new favorite IDE!) Let's start by obviously downloading and installing IntelliJ from here. Once you have gotten that installed, you are gonna want to go and get forge for 1.11.2 into a new separate folder somewhere on your computer. I will be using mappings for Minecraft Forge 1.11.2-13.20.0.2304. We are going to open IntelliJ and click on "Import Project..." (As shown below).

Navigate to your new project folder that you put your forge files in and double click build.gradle. Click Ok and it should open up a new window. (If your window is not dark theme you can configure it by doing some googling *wink wink*).

You're gonna want to navigate your mouse to the bottom left corner of IntelliJ and a list should pop up, including Gradle.

Click on Gradle and a new window should open on the right. Wait for the tasks to load and that might take a little while so give a bit. You should now see something like this,

Open up tasks and you should be able to view a bunch of different tasks. These tasks are performed through Gradle is how Forge organizes itself for obfuscation and compiling, and even releasing (which we will get to in a later post). Gradle is very useful for fetching code from remote locations and even executing tasks for a program. What we want to do is execute two different tasks, setupDecompWorkspace, and genIntellijRuns.

setupDecompWorkspace is going to setup our workspace so that we can view the minecraft source code along with the forge API. genIntellijRuns is going to setup our workspace to work with IntelliJ. When you run genIntelliJRuns, it will ask you to restart IntelliJ, which you will need to agree to do so in order for everything to work properly

To find these tasks you gotta go into tasks and go into forgegradle, and execute setupDecompWorkspace followed by genIntellijRuns. When these two tasks have completed and you have restarted your IDE, then you are going to need to set up your configurations. Before that, we need to refresh our workspace by clicking the refresh button at the top of our Gradle window. Now if you look in your External Libraries you should see forgeSrc-1.11.2-13.20.0.2304. We are now ready to start programming!