Getting Started with Quilt
Basic Requirements
In order to start modding Minecraft, you’ll need to know a couple of things.
- Basic Java knowledge. This includes understanding its syntax, object-oriented programming, and some essential design patterns.
- Basic Git knowledge. While technically not necessary, it’ll make your life a lot easier. This includes understanding how to clone repositories and make commits.
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How to Use this Wiki
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This wiki contains pages that are best read in order. Many of the articles, especially at the beginning, suggest other articles sensible to continue with. Most pages will contain code snippets, with full examples planned to be provided in example mods. (This is not done yet)
Additionally, you might account lines prefixed with TODO: . Those are notes for people working on the wiki what still needs to be done. For now, you can ignore them. Just know that there is more content to be inserted there.
TODO: Give an outline of all of the wiki articles once they’re ready
How to Learn Modding, for Beginners
Minecraft modding can get complicated. We aim to provide a resource to help you learn fundamental modding concepts. However, there are some things that we can’t do and expect you to learn on your own.
Asking questions properly, whether it is on our forum or on Discord, is an essential skill to have. Never be afraid to ask questions, we’re always willing to help, and we don’t judge.
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Many problems have been solved in modding before, and are publicly available for you to see and use as most mods for Quilt are open source. We recommend that you look at examples of how to do things in open source repositories and sometimes “steal” code. Open source repositories are there for you to learn from and use, don’t be afraid of them!
TODO: Levi write your thing about stealing code here
Differences between Fabric and Quilt
Quilt is a fork of the Fabric modloader. However, there are some key differences with Quilt when compared with Fabric.
TODO: Levi write your thing here