Blocks, Items, Creative tabs, and all review

In the last tutorial, we created a util class that handles the registry and rendering of all of our blocks and items. Now we need to create our blocks and items. First we need to create a package in our main com.[your_domain].tut package and call it init and put two classes in there and called them Blocks and Items. Let's create a block and an item.

First the block in our Blocks class:

Now we create BlockTutBlock in a package called com.[your_domain].tut.blocks.

As I have said before, you do not have to format your code the way you see it here.

Now we have to make a class called BlockBase and put all of our templates.

Now you can create a block and initialize it all in it's constructor, whether you want to give it a light level, a harvest level, or make it just a basic block. Lastly, we now need to register and render it in our RegisterUtil class.

Now we need to create an item.

Then we create the item class and inherit from ItemBase

But wait, what if we don't wanna put our blocks and items into the vanilla creative tabs? Well, we should create a class called CreativeTabsHandler in our com.[your_domain].tut.handlers and put our new creative tab in their.

This creates a new creative tab with an unlocalized name of "tutTab" and we are setting the tab icon to be our newly created tut item.

Now we need to do the JSON's for our block and item. We can just copy from coal_ore and coal JSON's.

The way that IntelliJ creates directories is kinda weird so we will have to go into the actual folder and create the assets.tut.blockstates and assets.tut.models.item, assets.tut.models.block directories. If we go into the external libraries and open the forgeSrc and locate the assets then we can find the JSON files of coal_ore and coal. You can reference earlier tutorials for creating JSON files for blocks and items, nothing have changed. I will provide images for you if you do not know how to make images. I actually have a small Paint.NET tutorial here if you would like to learn how to make basic textures for items and blocks. You'd have to research or find ways into making higher quality textures though. Here is the link to a couple of textures, one of the block, and one of the item. Once you place them in the right directories, and run the mod, then it should work. I have already tested it.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask in the comments!