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How to Use the Gameplay Loop in Minecraft Mods - For DummiesBefore you jump into making a Minecraft game, spend some time designing it so that you can prevent major errors when you go to develop it. You should always design your code before writing it. When you have a program that is complex, like a game, this rule becomes critical because it has so many pie
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How to Debug Complex Minecraft Mods - For DummiesWhen the code in your Minecraft mod isn’t working the way you want, such as when you make a row of eight bricks instead of two rows of four bricks, it may have an error, or bug. If your code has a bug in it, you have to debug it, or fix it. Writing large, complex mods makes it even more likely
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How to Use Locations to Strike Lightning in Minecraft Mods - For DummiesIn the Drones and Locations set of badges are specific badges related to Minecraft locations. The fun part about having the location of a player or drone is that you can make things happen directly at that location, such as strike lightning.
Use Locations to strike lightning on yourself in Minecraft
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How to Build a Tower in Minecraft Modding - For DummiesKnowing how to create drones, move them, and use them to place blocks allows you to build anything you can imagine in Minecraft. Building large, complex structures, however, requires lots of code, and the whole process can get confusing.
Before making a large, complex structure, explore how to make
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How to Use Drones to Build Structures in Minecraft Mods - For DummiesBuilding structures in Minecraft is made much easier when you can use drones. A drone is an invisible robot that can move around and place blocks and entities at its location. Here, you start building structures in Minecraft using drones — knowledge that comes in handy when you need to build l
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How to Earn the Minecraft Functions Badge - For DummiesHere, you find out how to complete the Functions challenge in Minecraft and earn the Functions badge. To start, be sure that you have opened the Functions challenge by clicking on the badge.
By the time you reach the end, you will know how to define two new functions: creeper1 and creeper2. This is
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How to Make and Call New Functions in Your Minecraft Mods - For DummiesA function is a way to group a lot of code and then name it. In Minecraft, you make a new function (or define or write a new function) when you drag a function block, change its name, and add code inside it. You call a function when you drag the specific function block into another function, like th
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How to Earn Missing Minecraft Badges - For DummiesA Missing badge has nearly completed code that is missing only a few blocks. Your Minecraft challenge? To figure out which blocks are missing and where to place them. Without those missing blocks, the mod cannot run.
As with a Scramble badge, you use a smart strategy to earn a Missing badge. Follow
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How to Earn Minecraft Scramble Badges - For DummiesYou can earn a few different kinds of Minecraft badges. Here, you find out how to earn Scramble badges, which are different from the other types: All the code blocks you need are already in the programming area — they’re just scrambled around on the screen in an animation.
To earn a Scra
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How to Write Minecraft Mods with Functions - For DummiesHere, you learn how to write a Minecraft mod that has a function named main. From now on, it will be called the main function. When you run a mod, your mod always starts running from the main function.
Notice that the Saying Hello badge is similar to the Write Your First Mod badge, except that it ha
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How to Run Your First Minecraft Mod - For DummiesAfter you write your first mod, the next task you take on is to run the mod in Minecraft. The third badge, Run Your Mod spells out the steps to do this:
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1Click the Mod button at the bottom of the programming environment.
You can see the button in the lower left corner.
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How to Use the LearnToMod Online Software for Minecraft - For DummiesThe LearnToMod online software walks you through a series of challenges that you complete in order to earn Minecraft badges. These challenges help show you basic programming skills and how to make Minecraft mods.
Here, you learn how to log in to the LearnToMod online software, create and run your fi
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Being Random with Code and Minecraft - For DummiesWhen you code in Minecraft, you can use a random integer to make your code behave in random ways. An integer is just a number; the random integer Math block in LearnToMod chooses a random number between two numbers (1 and 10, for example) every time the code is run.
Using integers in Minecraft.
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Creating the Water-and-Ice Effect in Minecraft - For DummiesOne neat thing about Minecraft is that some realistic physics are at play within the game. For example, if you have water and you put ice in it, it starts to freeze!
Okay, maybe in the real world, adding ice doesn’t make water freeze, but it does make it colder.
You can check out this cool eff
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Making Art in LearnToMod and Minecraft - For DummiesYou can make art in many ways in Minecraft, but one of the most fun is making Pixel art. Pixel art is a great way to expand your game and make it more exciting for your players.
What is pixel art?
Pixel art is something that has become very popular in Minecraft. A player can create basically anythin
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Add Friends to Your Private Minecraft LearnToMod Server - For DummiesOne benefit of using LearnToMod, aside from getting to learn how to program, is that you get your own, private Minecraft server. You can run all your mods or just play! Sometimes, though, it’s fun to play with friends. And luckily, you have a way to add your LearnToMod friends to your private
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Minecraft Modding For Kids For Dummies Cheat Sheet - For DummiesTo mod Minecraft, you have to write code. Luckily, the LearnToMod Software walks you through that! One of the first things that you should learn is how to use drones to build structures.Drones are invisible robots that can move and place blocks of certain types, or even spawn entities (like Creepers
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Designing Your Minecraft Minigame - For DummiesBefore writing all the code to make a Minecraft Minigame, you need to design your game. The Gameplay Loop is a simple process that you can follow to make sure your game is fun, challenging, and complete.
The Gameplay Loop has four parts:
Start: Create a basic scene.
Goal: Add a way to win and l
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Learning Basic Coding Skills to Mod Minecraft - For DummiesTo mod Minecraft, you have to write code. Luckily, the LearnToMod Software walks you through that! One of the first things that you should learn is how to use drones to build structures.Drones are invisible robots that can move and place blocks of certain types, or even spawn entities (like Creepers
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Surviving Zombie Sieges in Minecraft - For DummiesFor the seasoned Minecraft player, zombies may be no problem for you, but they’re quite dangerous to villagers. Zombies chase villagers and can easily kill cornered villagers. In Normal mode or Hardcore mode, zombies turn these victims into more zombies, causing them to form swarms as they tea
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