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Building Minecraft Server Modifications
Minecraft is a sandbox game that allows you to play it in any way you want. Coupled with a multiplayer server powered by Spigot, you can customize the game even more! Using the Bukkit API, anyone interested in learning how to program can control their Minecraft world by developing server plugins. This book is a great introduction to software development through the wonderful world of Minecraft. We start by instructing you through how to set up your home PC for Minecraft server development. This includes an IDE complete with the required libraries as well as a Spigot server to test on. You will be guided through writing code for several different plugins. Each chapter teaches you new skills to create plugins of increasing complexity, and each plugin adds a new concept of the Bukkit API By the end of the book, you will have all the knowledge you need about the API to successfully create any type of plugin. You can then practice and build your Java skills through developing more mods for their server. Cody M. Sommer graduated from SUNY Brockport with a bachelor's degree in computer science. During his time in college, he practiced his Java techniques by writing code for Bukkit plugins. The Bukkit project provided Cody with a fun way to develop software and continue to learn new things. After a few years, Cody authored the first edition of Building Minecraft Server Modifications in order to share his knowledge with the world. To this day, he creates new and exciting plugins for Minecraft servers. Cody has developed public plugins that are available for download, such as PhatLoots. He is also a private developer for servers such as ProspectMC. He even makes custom plugins for Minecraft events, which are hosted by him at his local library.
158 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2013
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October 30, 2013
Great book, Excellent read, needs better editing.
After reading the first 3 chapters I was able to create my first sample plugin for the Minecraft Bukkit server software.
Building Minecraft Server Mods is the first book by Cody "Codisimus" Sommers. A great piece of technical writing by a beginner, the first version of the book does suffer from a few editing errors, but I believe that to be a problem caused by the publisher and should not be
held against the author.
I found the book at http://www.packtpub.com/building-mine...
This book is not for beginners, and Cody explains that very early on. I have a bit of experience with Java and I teach computer programming so I had no trouble following the explanations. Cody explains just enough to you to complete the things you need without making it too complicated. I did have a few problems at the start because I tried using Eclipse (which I am not very familiar with) instead of NetBeans which Cody uses throughout the book but I was able to get everything working. He even provides a link to his website where readers can learn basic Java if they don't have experience with the language.
The examples are simple enough to understand but complex enough to make them useful and to give you more meat to work on for developing your own plugins or using his examples as a base to start from. The prose of the book is very informal and should be easy to understand for most readers.
I was quite happy to start learning how to create plugins for Minecraft servers and the ideas provided in Cody's book have really got me excited about starting some projects. Great work by a new author!
After reading the first 3 chapters I was able to create my first sample plugin for the Minecraft Bukkit server software.
Building Minecraft Server Mods is the first book by Cody "Codisimus" Sommers. A great piece of technical writing by a beginner, the first version of the book does suffer from a few editing errors, but I believe that to be a problem caused by the publisher and should not be
held against the author.
I found the book at http://www.packtpub.com/building-mine...
This book is not for beginners, and Cody explains that very early on. I have a bit of experience with Java and I teach computer programming so I had no trouble following the explanations. Cody explains just enough to you to complete the things you need without making it too complicated. I did have a few problems at the start because I tried using Eclipse (which I am not very familiar with) instead of NetBeans which Cody uses throughout the book but I was able to get everything working. He even provides a link to his website where readers can learn basic Java if they don't have experience with the language.
The examples are simple enough to understand but complex enough to make them useful and to give you more meat to work on for developing your own plugins or using his examples as a base to start from. The prose of the book is very informal and should be easy to understand for most readers.
I was quite happy to start learning how to create plugins for Minecraft servers and the ideas provided in Cody's book have really got me excited about starting some projects. Great work by a new author!
November 2, 2013
A must read if you want to learn how to create your own Minecraft Server. Great book! Ever wanted to learn the ins and outs of a Minecraft server? Find all the information in one place can often be challenging. This book walks you through setting up a Craftbukkit server and essential plugins. Then it takes you further into explaining how you too can build custom plugins to work with Minecraft. I am only currently half way through the book, but am totally delighted. I have read and reviewed other books thinking I just wasted so much time and it didn't even deliver what the title promised. I am very pleased with this book so far. If you are excited and want to learn about Minecraft multiplayer servers I recommend this title.
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