Hello! This is a thread where i'll be posting plenty of tutorials on making different mods for minecraft! It will be updated a lot, so check back regularly!! If i can find one, i will post a video tutorial with each one i do, or just make my own

For every tutorial here, you will need a clean .minecraft folder! Locate your minecraft folder, backup and delete the .minecraft folder. Then just run the client to download a clean one! You will also need WinRar or Winzip

1st Tutorial: The Basics!
Ok, so the first thing you should note: All the things posted here will be modloader compatible - as every great mod should be! So, you'll need modloader first.

Step1: Download modloader from Risugami's minecraft forums thread: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Step2: Simply extract the zip to a file using Winrar, winzip or the basic boring windows zip tool, by right clicking and pressing Extract or something similar.
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Step3: Locate your minecraft folder. This is easy. Go to start, run (or on windows vista/7 Start search for run) and type into it %appdata%. Then open .minecraft folder. Then BIN folder.
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Step4: Right click on Minecraft.jar and click Open With... Then select WinRar or Winzip.
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Step5: Open The modloader files again, keeping the minecraft.jar open and select all the files in modloader (by dragging over them). Then drag all the modloader files into the minecraft.jar you have open.
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Step6 IMPORTANT: Delete the file named Meta-Inf inside minecraft.jar. This is really important otherwise you will get a black screen. I dont know why, nobody does

Tutorial 1b - Setting up MCP and all the other tools you'll need
Now you have modloader installed, you'll need to get only 2 or 3 more things! These are essential.

JDK: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (just download the appropriate version for your system)
MCP: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
Notepad++: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
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Step1: Install JDK. Just download the appropriate version from the link above, run it and keep clicking next.

Step2: Download Notepad++. You can actually use any coding program, but this is what i use and will be showing in pictures / videos. (And its free )

Step3: Now Mcp. Download from the link above, and unzip into a new folder. Now, open your minecraft folder and RightClick > copy the BIN folder. In the MCP folder go to JARS folder and paste your bin folder there. (Make sure the bin you copied has the minecraft with Modloader on it in the folder).
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Step4: Go up a file into the MCP main thing. Find a file called Decompile and run it. A black box will appear saying a load of stuff. Wait a little bit until it says 'Press any key to continue...' just press any key and it will disappear. It's normal if there is a small error, something about 2 hunks or whatever, this is supposed to happen.
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Step5: its now set up for your wonderful modding creations! These are all the tools you will be needing for most mods! If you goto src > minecraft > net > minecraft > src, you will see all the source files for minecraft!!! These wont actually be edited, but you will be creating your own files! (Its easy, honestly!)


More tutorials coming soon! i was interrupted during writing sorry"