A Beginners Guide to Writing Minecraft Plugins in JavaScript

Book Description

Aimed at kids who already play Minecraft, this guide will teach coding through a series of «Recipes» (the term used in-game when crafting new objects). For example, in the game, one of the first things any player must do is create a Workbench, or Crafting Table, which will in turn enable the player to create sophisticated tools. Recipe 1 in the book (the term Recipe and Chapter is interchangeable) is ‘A modding Workbench’ and its ingredients are the tools the reader will need to begin modding.

Walter Higgins has more than 20 years’ experience in software development working at Microsoft, Apple, EMC, and IBM. When not programming, he enjoys tinkering with new technology, reading, and running. He lives in Cork, Ireland.

About the Author

• Part I. Building a Modding Workbench
  Chapter. 1 Running Your Own Minecraft Server
  Chapter. 2 Setting Up ScriptCraft
  Chapter. 3 Exploring JavaScript in Minecraft
  Chapter. 4 Choosing and Using a Text Editor
• Part II. Basic Modding
  Chapter. 5 Your First Minecraft Plugin
  Chapter. 6 Rolling Dice
  Chapter. 7 Multisided Die
  Chapter. 8 Greeting Players
  Chapter. 9 A Guessing Game
  Chapter. 10 Animal Sounds
  Chapter. 11 Leaderboards: More Fun with Arrays
  Chapter. 12 Building a Skyscraper
  Chapter. 13 Create a Fireworks Show
  Chapter. 14 Animal Sounds Revisited
• Part III. Advanced Modding
  Chapter. 15 Saving Player Preferences
  Chapter. 16 Add New Recipes: The Ender Bow
  Chapter. 17 Arrows That Teleport You
  Chapter. 18 Protecting Your Server Against Griefing
  Chapter. 19 Snowball Fight!
  Appendix
  Index