Where to Go from Here - Adventures in Minecraft - page 262

• http://arghbox.wordpress.com —Craig Richardson regularly develops exciting
Minecraft programming projects to help support the teaching of the new com-
puting curriculum. Be sure to have a look at his open source Minecraft program-
ming book and his Minecraft controller built from real fruit!
• www.minecraftforum.net —his is the official Minecraft Forum where you can
get help on any topic related to Minecraft, such as new features, setting up serv-
ers, and tips for creative and survival mode.
• http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Minecraft_Wiki —he Minecraft Wiki is a
community managed collection of information about Minecraft. And because it
is community managed, this means you can contribute to it too!
• www.scarabcoder.com —he blog of a young coder, Nicholas Harris, who started
programming by using Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi. He posts updates on his
adventures in coding and technology. Be sure to look at his series on Bukkit
plugins.
• www.reddit.com/r/MCPI —Reddit is a social linking website where people post
links and then vote them up or down. A wide range of interesting Minecraft
programming projects regularly pop up on this Reddit page.
• http://mcpipy.wordpress.com and https://github.com/brooksc/mcpipy —his is
a collection of Minecraft programming resources. You will find these resources
in other places too, but many people (including David) discovered Martin
O'Hanlon through this website and the Reddit pages.
• www.minecraftmaps.com —Minecraft allows you to load and save adventure
maps, which are complete snapshots of a Minecraft world. This site has a huge
repository of community-developed maps that you can load into your Minecraft
world, then build on top of them.
• http://minecraft.curseforge.com —his is an open source exchange hosting site
(a bit like sourceforge, but for Minecraft), where projects are hosted and can
then be downloaded from www.curse.com.
• http://minecraft-seeds.net —Minecraft worlds are generated by a computer
algorithm built inside Minecraft. Random numbers are “seeded” from a start
number. If you enter a known seed, you will recreate that world. This site lists
seeds you can type in to create specific Minecraft worlds.
• www.mcedit.net and www.worldpainter.net —hese are free downloadable tools
that you can use to design and paint your own custom world maps using
onscreen editing tools.
• http://mcreator.pylo.si —MCreator is a mod maker for Minecraft, using a simple
point-and-click interface with no programming. With it, you can create fantastic
Minecraft mods such as new block types, mobs, armour, commands and many
other items.