Sams Teach Yourself Mod Development for Minecraft in 24 Hours, Second Edition

Hour 10. Block States

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

Coding block state blocks

Making block state jsons

In this hour, you build on what you learned in Hour 5, “Creating Multiple Items in a Smart Way,” and Hour 9, “Making Your First Block.” Hour 5 covered metadata for items, which is similar to block states for blocks. For an explanation of what metadata is, read through the information given in Hour 5. In Hour 9, you learned how to create a basic block. In this hour, you learn how to add multiple blocks using states. A block state is basically ...