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Continuing on my trend of adding fun but easy features, I’ve made it so in Primalcraft the player’s speed is based on the kind of block they’re traveling on or through. This is very similar to the hardcore movement feature of Better Than Wolves. I like this feature because it will cause the player to strategize about what path they take—especia...

I recently finished Primalcraft’s knapping feature, and I felt the need to tackle something a little easier for a while. So last night I started trying to figure out how to make it so the player can move through leaf blocks. One of the less realistic parts of Minecraft is that leaf blocks are completely solid. If you can manage to get on top of...

I’m back with another update on my Minecraft mod, Primalcraft. It’s been a little over two weeks since I started working on knapping for Primalcraft, and I’ve got all the basics working. To do knapping, you need to find a hammerstone, which is just a round stone that you can easily hold in your hand, and a stone flake. In Primalcraft, you can o...

Ah, Nightwish. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, they’re still around, and I’m still listening to them. When I first heard the album Once, I was blown away. I fell deeply in love with their combination of soaring operatic vocals, pounding guitars, and symphonic elements, even while I recognized and occasionally cringed at some of their cheesy bombast. Befo...

As described in my last post, I’m working on a knapping interface for Primalcraft. The basic idea will be similar to Terrafirmacraft, where you are shown a “rock” made up of a bunch of little squares, and you click a square at the edge of the rock to remove it. When you’ve trimmed it down to the right shape, you get your tool head. I got my han...

Lately I’ve been working on flint knapping for Primalcraft. Our primal ancestors used flint and similar stones to create tools through a process called knapping. Flint was especially prized because of the special way in which it fractures to create sharp, hard edges. Obsidian was often used, too. It makes especially sharp edges but is more britt...

Last time I posted, my plan was to test out my entire mod, one feature at a time. I’ve checked in 18 different updates to my mod since then. Most of the changes are little bugs, like my new loose dirt block breaking instantly when it shouldn’t, or campfires failing to go out in the rain. I think I’ve caught most of those, but honestly I haven’t ...

I just spent a couple of days updating my mod to a newer version of Minecraft. It’s a pain in the tookus. When I started modding, back in the mists of time, Minecraft was still on 1.8.9. There were a lot of tutorials available, thank the heavens. I started out copying quite a bit of code that I didn’t understand very well, but I was able to get...