Golden Age Wiki

The Golden Age modding wiki is a free and open-source wiki for Minecraft versions from rd-132211 to 1.5.2 that focuses on documenting how Minecraft itself works and best practices for modding such versions.

Tutorials

This wiki recommends that you have a basic understanding of Java before learning to mod Minecraft. If you don't, you can find some free Java resources here.

Setting up

• Introduction to APIs
• Setting up a MCP modding environment
• Setting up a Fabric modding environment

Blocks

• Adding a block with MCP
• Adding a block entity with MCP
• Adding a block with ModLoader
  • Using Forge texture atlases
• Adding a block with Station API

Items

• Adding an item with MCP
• Adding an item with ModLoader
• Using metadata to save block IDs

Networking

• Adding custom packets with MCP
• Adding custom packets with ModLoaderMP
• Adding custom packets with Station API

Documentation

Save formats

• Classic save format
  • Introduced in rd-132211 and discontinued in Indev 0.31 20100114.
• Indev save format
  • Introduced in Indev 0.31 20100122 and discontinued in Infdev 20100325.
• Infdev 20100624 save format
  • Introduced in Infdev 20100624 and immediately discontinued due to file size concerns.
• "Alpha" save format
  • Introduced in Infdev 20100327 and discontinued in Beta 1.3.
• McRegion save format
  • Introduced in Beta 1.3 and discontinued in Release 1.2.
• Anvil save format
  • Introduced in 12w07a for Release 1.2.1 and is still in use.

Networking

• Vanilla packets

Miscellaneous

• Blocks and Items
• NBT Types
• Generation Layers

Contributing

Submitting a pull request

1. Fork the repository and clone it. (git clone <url>)
2. Edit the wiki and add your changes. (git add .)
3. Commit your changes. (git commit -m "adds X")
4. Push to your fork. (git push)
5. Open a pull request.

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Note

This project is not related or affiliated with r/GoldenAgeMinecraft, Mojang, or Microsoft. Except where otherwise stated, this wiki is provided under the terms of the Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal license (CC0). For more information, please see the license file.