Microsoft Minecraft Mod Developer Pack

doot · April 30, 2015, 6:06pm

Apparently this just got released not that long ago:

FerusGrim · April 30, 2015, 6:12pm

That’s certainly… interesting. I can’t say I don’t appreciate it. For whatever their faults, this isn’t one of them. Hopefully this is just a taste of what they’ll do in the future.

simon816 · April 30, 2015, 6:12pm

Java in Visual Studio? What is this madness!

FerusGrim · April 30, 2015, 6:17pm

True. Anyone who already works with Java/Minecraft probably doesn’t use VS. However, they’re providing a market where this isn’t one.

No matter how you slice it, Minecraft reaching new people can only be a good thing.

Tzk · April 30, 2015, 7:01pm

Slowly their invest in Mojang seems to make sense…
They’re trying to reach young developers which is great!

We’ll see where this road takes us

Xemiru · April 30, 2015, 7:03pm

we still need better forge tutorials
;D

other than that, its great that they’re supporting it. .w.

simon816 · April 30, 2015, 7:20pm

Forge documentation, it’s happening http://mcforge.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

boformer · April 30, 2015, 7:57pm

Using Visual Studio for mod and plugin development sounds interesting.

FerusGrim · April 30, 2015, 7:59pm

I probably won’t be switching anytime, soon. The fact that the possibility is there is nice, though.

Feuerstern_ · April 30, 2015, 8:06pm

“Microsoft versus Minecraft”? xD What a great link name

doot · April 30, 2015, 9:20pm

It’s supposed to be Microsoft Visual Studio Minecraft.

Feuerstern_ · April 30, 2015, 10:28pm

You don’t say :0

sfxworks · May 2, 2015, 10:44am

mluparu:

I took a look at what it would take to support Sponge. Since it has a Maven repo, it can be added to your project’s build.gradle following the instructions on Sponge’s page Adding Sponge API Dependencies

Here’s what you need to do next:

After you change build.gradle, start a build in VS. The change in build.gradle will be detected and a provisioning build will start.

When the build is done, you need to manually update the project references in Solution Explorer:
(1) select all references from the “References” node, delete them and save your project
(2) reprovision your project by following the instructions in Hello.txt (i.e. execute the DTE command CustomCommands.ProvisionMinecraftProject).

That’s it. After this, you should be able to start using the types from Sponge. Let me know if it works for you.

Link_TheProgrammer · May 3, 2015, 2:31am

From my experience, minecraft in visual studio is a horrible idea. I’ve always had problems when using visual studio. Java support in VS however… It will just be one more IDE that isn’t as useful as Eclipse. I would die (and oracle too probably) if all of a sudden developers used “Visual Java”. We already hate .NET as it is

sfxworks · May 3, 2015, 4:43am

Yeah but
Its so much easier because it sets everything up automagically right?
What’s the big deal? Some team worked hard on it stop slamming it cause its a lil foreign to you. Youll hurt the devs feelings!!!

Link_TheProgrammer · May 3, 2015, 12:45pm

Right, tell me you don’t know where everything is at first glance when it “automagically” does it’s thing? I know how it works, but it’s a pain. This brings in a level of abstraction, which doesn’t help a new modder at all understand the inner workings of modding minecraft. In fact, it’s actually noise because it’s a visual studio extension which contains vbscript. It should be for the professional modders. I still wouldn’t recommend it though.

Also, I have a history… I hate Microsoft. I have my reasons. I hate Apple too. I could care less if I hurt the developers’ feelings.

KieronWiltshire · May 7, 2015, 4:17pm

I have a really big feeling that their biggest reason for aquiring Mojang has something to do with their new HoloLens product.