Modding with MCP and forge (update)

Hello all,

well I have been doing a little work on the coding I need to learn for my mod and I have been able to make a few new block in the game that can be brought in with creative mod.

Turned out to be easier then I thought it would be to get them created to start with.  how ever best practice for how to lay out and make your classes modular is something none of the tutorials I have been reading, teach.

so I think I am going to have to try and figure out the most manageable way to structure my code.  I hope that I can get it nice and clean so that when I release the code people will be able to learn from it clearly and also not laugh at how noob'ish my first mod might be.

other than working on the mod I have have a fairly busy weekend, and surprisingly not much to do with computers of video games. lol.

Saturday was a nice trip down to Alexandria for the Blossom Festival with my wife and daughters, and then Sunday was an interesting and tiring spring clean of the house.  spend a good few hours at it and only managed to get about maybe 15% of the stuff fully sorted. my family are such hoarders.  I thought I was bad when it came to CD's and DVD's full of files I don't want to delete. lol

anyhow  I will be back into getting some more content up and ready for the Realm tonight so hopefully I will have an episode up then.  

ps. feel free to post any good 1.3.2 forge modding tutorials that you find and ...

until next time

                   Catch ya Later

Wow, I is so slack lol

Hello everybody, as you can tell from the gap between posts I have been very slack,  this is due to real life issues/responsibilities and limited time to even get videos up.

I am going to try getting back into a better situation so I can start getting more regular content out and also set aside some time for my newest EPIC mine-craft adventure, trying to learn how to mod.

I have some ideas about the kind of mod I am going to be working on and I am going to start putting together some of the initial development ideas.  I am planning on doing some incremental component releases as things become available.  presently there will be no additional world generation but may make use of the ores added by forestry, primary bronze. how ever this will mean that for a short period of time(until I learn and plan out world gen) you will require forestry and forge to be included.

I will be building this on Forge and do plan on it being SMP as some of the things are going to be designed around multiple players and some security stuff, (no spoilers yet though)

the First Phase is going to be a module that adds the blocks required for some of the themed buildings and possibly also a few items.

I am also looking for some talented artists for work on textures and possible some coders to assist with the models and UI's I am going to be needing for my vision of this mod to come to fruition.

finally this will be developed as open source and I will have the repository up on github (as soon as I can get my head around it. I normally use svn) and I will also build api's so that they can be interacted with by other mod.

but until I have more development completed, which is based on more learning of mod development, I will only say watch this space.

And for a temporary code name (until I think of something better) let say...

code name: Project Shadow

On the Dawn of a New Era

First I would like to say a massive thanks, as over the last few weeks I have been a massive increase in my video views and a few extra likes.

I would also like to say a big hello to the minecraft forums as well as I have now started posting my series videos over there and there has been good response of views.

I am planning of starting a series thread over there so that there will be a more communal way to chat about the series and the upcoming changes etc.

Finally the News stated in the Title of this post, We are standing almost at the Dawn of a New Era. I have two announcement that I am excited about, first I have finally taken the plunge and started to dabble in live streaming via Twitch.Tv. Look up TheNeoublie the same as you would for YouTube and my twitter is @TheNeoublie.


As always,
                  Catch you next time


Neoublie

Video views Growing, now over 5300

I am happy to say that the video views keep on climbing and I am getting some comments back saying I am on the right path, I still would like suggestions on what I can do to get some more exposure.

I have started to look into keywords and posting on some other locations like the minecraft forums video section.  that looks to be helping.  one day soon I hope to beat the 62 and higher subscription number as it has been bouncing between 59 and 61 for a while. lol.

I have now got my first world download up and that was just at the 5000 video view mark.  my intention now will be a world upload every 10 episodes. so with two a week it shouldn't take too long. (please let me know if you are even interested in playing in my world.)

other than that, not a lot has been happening. been spending a lot of time with my daughter, she is learning so much and since she hit 1 she has seemed to start learning everything so much faster.

I am in the process now of trying to get a new co-op series going with adnzl that will air on both TheNeoublie and uplatewithads channels.  Not sure this will be Minecraft or maybe something else.


Well back to the boring old day job, talk to you soon in the next episode.


As always,
                  Catch you next time


Neoublie

OVER 4000!!!

Lol OK still not over 9000 but we have hit a nice milestone. Thank you all for helping out to make this happen.  We are slowly getting there. And with only 57 subscribers.

Just imagine what we can do once more people get to know about my channel. Hopefully I can post some time saying over 4000 on a single newish video. That would be awesome.

So if you know of ways to promote the videos you like please do so.  If you use Reddit you can post there and help get some more views or maybe link in goggle+/facebook.

But of course hitting that like button is helping as well. Thanks all.

Episode 30 of Technic Pack with TheNeoublie drawing near

Hello everyone,
    I have been a bit slack with my posts even though i have been able to get my episode releases back on track.

I have two major things I wanted to say in this post along with a couple of minor things

a)  I am looking at starting up another series that is focused around a single mod, I am thinking maybe focusing it on thaumcraft 2 but I need to look into any other cool mods that are avaiable to play. another thing I am thinking on is maybe doing a parkor map as well.

- Please suggest and other mods or parkor puzzle maps you recommend.

b) I am looking for ways to increase my subscriber base and need your help.  please tell me if you know any ways I can "up" my exposure and reach a larger audience, I feel that the increase in my subscribers has been great and pushing me to do more with it.

That being said I am looking to also start getting a goal with the likes on my videos, if you like the video please do press the like button.  I wanna see the number of likes be a big number. This will encourage me to push the series further.

and finally as I approach the 30th episode of the series I am wondering if you are interested in a world download.

Leave your comments likes and messages and lets get this party going.

As always,

                  Catch you next time

Neoublie

@theneoublie
youtube.com/theneoublie

Moderator status is hard work

Sorry to everyone for not getting a reliease out for the Technic LP, I went to check quickly on the server I moderate, Axis Mundi - my quick check in turned into a three hour ordeal trying to fix two peoples grieffing and theft. 

Thanks lie7888 and jjj123thefunky, had a fun time sorting your damage out and hope you get banned from everyother server you grief on.

as for the episode I have it recorded but I need to do post production on it and then upload it, if all go well I will have it up this evening (NZ time, currently 9:18am)

on good news though we have now got Axis advertised on planet minecraft and on the tekkit forums, we now have had a large amount of players joining regularly, this is nice too see.

thank all, and will have the next video up asap.

As always,
                  Catch you next time

Neoublie

OVER 2000!!!!!!

It is not quite 'over 9000' and it is spread out over all my videos but i think this is a good mile stone.
Thanks for making it happen.
I havent had a chance to record and edit much over the last week as my 9month old baby girl started daycare and tha means she brings home 'the sickness' just not the awesome music version. lol
Anyhow as soon as i stop coughing out a lung every 10 mins i will get back into recording and do some catch up episodes

As always,
                  Catch you next time

Neoublie

Episode 13 of my Technic LP is up and Still no Diamonds :(

I decided I was going to focus on getting diamond and was hoping that it wouldn't be too hard. however I spent a long time maybe more then 30 to 40 mins trying to find some and with out success,

I even tried using the minimap cave mode to help locate caves, and still no luck.  I think I am going to do another small cave dive in a different area and if that doesn't work I am going to put together a industrial diamond factory and try and get them that way.

I am also going to create in the next episode a Filler and start building a better house. with a storage room. I think it will help a bit if I have my stuff sorted in a better set up, and I can have my machines in a different location. I think for the build I might do it as a spead up hybrid timelaps. I will see how it goes with that.

for episode please jump to my channel or if you want to help support even morethen just adsense on youtube please use my adf.ly to get there :-D hoping to build enough revenue to get Sony Vegas so I can edit my videos better then power director - http://adf.ly/6IiRi

As always,
                 Catch you next time

Neoublie

Technic LP - Episode 10 & 11 & Infernal Sky Ep 13 (part1)

First I would like to say I am sorry for the delay in getting out episode 10 and also for not posting on twitter or here about the reason for the delay,  I was taken down by a nasty head cold and didn't feel up to doing anything which had a monitor connected to it. lol

Any how, back to things as scheduled, I have release episode 10 (a little latter then scheduled) and episode 11 of my Technic Pack LP.

Releases should now also go back to the regular releases of Wednesday's and Sunday's (NZ time) and I am also planning to record more for Left 4 Dead 2,  (been a little slack there) I think I will be trying to find a fallow commentator or three for that as it will be more fun in a group.

also a little bit of news about a possible series. we are looking at maybe doing a Vechs map as a group. possibly 4 or 5 people. We attempted a trial run last night but were having issues with server connections.  (might need to run off a host instead of of my local machine.)

As always,
                  Catch you next time

Neoublie

Minecraft Technic Pack ssp - Objective List

Machine Man
Set up basic IC2 machines
Make industrial diamond and make Quarry and Nano Suit

Build Mass Fabricator
Build Nukeular Reactor

Make quantum Suit


No Longer available as no Tale of Kingdoms :-(
King Neo the adventurer
Establish Kingdom (complete)
Find and conquer a Ruin


Neo of the Jungle
Tame a Kitten,
Tame a Big Cat.
Breed Horses and get a Black Pegasus.


Conductor Neo
Figure out RailCraft rails and switching
Build an Epic Rail System


The END
Collect Ender Pearls (COMPLETE) - found an ender pearl and will use EE to copy it
Find the Nether Fortress
Find the Stronghold
Enter the End
Kill the Dragon

As always,
                  Catch you next time

Neoublie

Infernal sky and Technic pack videos released

The Latest Infernal sky and technic pack videos are now available for viewing on my youtube channel.

getting close to completing Infernal Sky II as well so look out for the big finally. also please let me know what you think I should do next as an adventure/puzzle/survival map.

On another note, good news. the Axis Mundi server with Tekkit 1.1.4 is back online and the towns are progressing well. the server owner is still fixing up a couple of permissions but all in all it is back to business. I have almost got a running setup of my main machines so once I have cleaned up everything a little bit and made it look a little nicer for a building I will then run through a tour of my town and stuff.

I am also thinking of checking with Luclin about whether or not I would be aloud to record a tour of the minecraft workbench server although it will just be some highlights as the world is a little large to show everything.

anyway guys,

As always,
                  Catch you next time

Neoublie

Technic Install Video update

After going to the website to get the download intsaller I found that the new version of technic is available.  At the same time they have modified the way the installation works. saying this I dont believe that a tuturial video is nessasary.

Easy steps to install Technic pack
* these instructions are for pc only. and I take no responsibility for any loss of data or issues that occur. these instructions worked for me.


step 1: open your current minecraft launcher
step 2: click option
step 3: click on the path to open your .minecraft
step 4: back up everything you want to keep (or copy the entire contents if you are unsure)
step 5: delete the contents.
step 6: open the Technic launcher and select technic from the dropdownlist and then log in, the launcher will auto download and install all that is needed

** Java 7 May be required, you can get that from the Oracle website

Minecraft Technic Pack installation video

I have had a request by one of my subscribers on help to install the Technic pack,  so I have decided to do an install video which I will post up soon.  this will include gettign a fresh minecraft and using mcnostalgia and then installing the Technic pack into your appropriate minecraft build.

I also plan on having a little instruction on how to run multiple different builds by using batch files to be able to switch where the appdata folder is set for each build.

as all ways, catch ya next time

Neoublie

Technic Episode 3 is up, sorry for the delay

There was a small delay for getting episode 3 up for Technic pack but happy to inform you that it is now available.

Enjoy.

Yortube release schedule (draft)

Ok. So I am looking at what it is I am doing at the moment and how much time it is taking to get the episodes ready.

In view of this and what else is going on in my life at the moment I will attempt a Wednesday/Sunday release schedule for the Technic Pack series and I and going to also release the Infernal sky series episodes on Sunday until it is completed.

I am also looking at possibly doing a hardcore series with more creeps, mo nightmares and other cool mods to make a night on the town a blood bath. so watch this space.


Schedule

Wednesday
- Episode of Technic Pack with Neo

Sunday
- Episode of Technic Pack with Neo
- Episode of Infernal Sky II

Upcoming 
Super Hardcore Mobs Galore

Episode 2 of Technic Pack series for Minecraft up and available

Episode 2 of My Technic pack series is up and ready for viewing.  still in the process of initial start up so still doing preliminary steps, like collecting resources and starting the beginning of my machines.

hopefully I can get the production started quickly so I can track down some cool things from my other mods.

I am also looking at making a list of objectives to be done in the series. that list should be listed here soon.  if there is something you want added to the objective list please leave me a message and if it sounds fun an exciting I will add it to the list.

Industrial craft and buildcraft - Episode 01 is finally here.

Episode one is now available on my channel. And as a nice addition the series has much more in store. I am using the technic pack and in doing so i have a multitude of extra addons like mo creatures and airships, millionaire and tale of kingdoms. Thus should be a grand series with lots to do.
http://www.youtube.com/my_videos?feature=mhee

Episode 8 and Some Nuketastic fun now available

The first part of Episode 8 is now available as well as a mini special from my industrial craft build.

I have also joined up with a new server that has most of the mods I like on there so I will be doing a tour of the server once I have established my residence and helped my mate build up our town a little bit :D

As always,
                  Catch you next time

Neoublie

Part one of episode 7 is now available

Happy to anounce that the first part of episode 7. hope you enjoy. i will be releasing more clips faster once i am back from my trip to wellington in 3 more days.

As always,
                  Catch you next time

Neoublie

Episode 6 available an preparing for smp map

I have uploaded the Sixth episode of Infernal Sky II, it is a great deal longer running at almost 45 mins.

I wont be making clips that long every time and I am going to try and keep the individual clips to max length of 30 mins unless you guys start asking for longer episode and if so I will review when I will do them and how oftain.

I am currently looking for SMP adventure / puzzle / survival maps to run with two of my other friends, hopefully we can find something exciting and challenging to play through.  I do still have to work on being able to capture there skype or teamspeak audio. (if you have any suggestions please let me know)

so any how enjoy episode 6 and I will hopefully be putting episode 7 part 1 up soon, I did a bit of excess recording on my last play so I have more to release, but it means I haven't been able to really have must of a play on the map and I am missing it.  so I plan on releasing what I have a little faster so that I can start recording fresh content.

As always,
                  Catch you next time

Neoublie

Episode 5 is up and now longer clips

I have finished editing and uploading Episode 5 of the Infernal Sky II series and I have discovered I can upload more then the 10 min clips I was limited to.

I found out I needed to patch my video editing software as the 10 min limitation was out of date anyway as standard accounts can upload 15 mins by default.  but I have also applied for longer clips then 15 mins and now I have a16 min episode 5.

I am still not sure how long the clips can be at this stage, if anyone happens to know please drop me a message. I will be working on episode 6 soon and should hopefully have it up mid week.

I am going to try and start getting at at least two episodes out each week as the legendary series I am watching double do is huge and has multiple zones as well so I think that Infernal sky might also be very long.

I also have a couple extra clips I will pop up in the next couple of days, they are nuke'tastic lol

As always,
                  Catch you next time

Neoublie

Holiday Season over

Well I have survived another holiday season.

this year I plan on continuing my playthrough of Vech's super hostile Infernal Sky II

I have a couple of mod spot lights I am going to do and I am also starting to get set up for my IC2, Buildcraft and redpower series. now that they have been updated, i have fixed my texture pack and have a local server running I will be able to start planning out the first few episodes.


I also had the nice surprise in finding the Aether has been updated to 1.0.0 - this of course is only just after finally getting around to getting my 1.7.3 build of the aether up and running.

also on other news I have been white listed for the Workbench community server, was nice to get a chance to play over there, hopefully once I have a bit of a house build I will be able to check with the staff if I am allowed to record there.

Happy new year to everyone

As always,
                  Catch you next time

Neoublie