This week, we continued to work on our structure mods in ScriptCraftJS. Our plan is to build a whole set of mods that between them can be used to create a town/city.
Meanwhile, Eli in the group is working on Java-based modding and will help everyone else get started with it when we all move onto that topic later.
Some of the structures people in the group are working on:
- A block of apartments
- A street with skyscrapers
- A castle
- An iron house
- A stable
- A tennis court / soccer pitch
- A subway
- A giant face!
The picture with this week’s post shows a Wizard’s Tower built by Conor in the ModderDojo group.
Along the way, we will get practice of:
- Turning ideas into designs and turning designs into code
- Debugging programs when the result doesn’t match the design
- Using variables, calculations, decisions and loops
- Sharing code for others to download and reuse
Practical notes:
- During development and testing, you can end up with lots of incomplete structures that slow down your CraftBukkit server. A simple fix is to delete your world:
- Stop your CraftBukkit server
- Open the CraftBukkit folder on your computer: in it you will see folders called world and possibly world_nether and world_the_end delete them all
- While you are at it, edit server.properties in the CraftBukkit folder to make your new world superflat, write level-type=flat and you could also change other properties such as spawn-monsters=false
- Restart your CraftBukkit folder to create a new, empty world
- Re-run your scripts to recreate structures that you want
- Read the ScriptCraftJS API reference to see what commands you can use for your structures: https://github.com/walterhiggins/ScriptCraft/blob/master/docs/api.md
Our Mods:
We have started to post mods here: https://cdathenry.wordpress.com/2013/11/10/modderdojo-athenry-our-scriptcraftjs-minecraft-mods/
We will add more as our modders finish them and make them available for posting. Stay tuned!
