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Installing Eclipse and Forge

Hello! You've come here to learn about Minecraft modding? You've come to the right place. Here I will show you how to install Eclipse an IDE (Intergrated Development Enviroment) and how to decomplie minecraft and Forge source code. Alright, lets get into it! First, you are going to want Eclipse, an IDE. A Intergrated Development Enviroment is a program that will allow us to create other programs and inmport libraries, export and import our mod. You can Download Eclipse here. Make sure to get the latest one luna and the right one for your operation system (Linux, Windows, Mac OSX), (32 Bit, 64). Once downloaded, extract it to a folder somewhere you know like your desktop. Note: Never move anything outside that folder or it will not work.

Now to install Minecraft Forge

To Install Minecraft forge, we must first download the source code. Source code is the actually non-compiled form of code. We need Minecraft Forge's source code in order to get minecrafts and get our mod working because obviously, we are using forge to create our mod. Download Forge's source code here. Scroll down a bit until you see "1.7.10 recommended" then across from there you will see alot of different links. We want "src" or source code. Click it to download.

 

 

 

 

Extract all of the contents to a new folder, I've called mine 'Forge Workspace'. Now we have to decompile the source code for Eclipse. Shift-Right click the new folder with the forge src and click 'open command window here'. Now we need to type: 'gradlew setupDecompWorkspace' and after that 'gradlew eclipse'. Those might take awhile to finish so be patient. After that the setup is done!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now we can go back to eclipse and run the eclipse application I circled earlier. You will be prompted to browse for a workspace location. A workspace is a folder where the projects you create will go. This is something we will go to alot. Browse to put your workspace in the "eclipse" folder in the minecraft forge source code we just extracted (remember? mine in a folder named Forge Workspace in my Documents). 

Now we open it and should see Minecraft src and an Example mod. Just click the green arrow at the top to run it!.

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