Introduction

Minecraft is a great game. It’s one of the best-selling PC games, and it’s exceedingly popular. One of the many reasons why it is so popular is because there are mods. If you picked up this book, you likely already have an interest in Minecraft and you might have already played with some mods. This book teaches you how to create these mods yourself.

Creating mods yourself has two big advantages. First, you can improve the game in the way you want, shaping the mod to exactly fit your needs and making the game more fun for you to play. Second, modding is an easy way to get into programming, which is a booming industry, and, according to many people (including me), modding is a really interesting thing to do.

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