griffpatch – 🧀 CHEESE – Updating Paper Minecraft – Scratch Tutorial

[Intro] Hello Fellow Scratchers – Ever wanted to add your own items and blocks to Paper Minecraft?  We’ll today I’ll show you how, demonstrating by adding the hugely significant “cheese block”! Perfect because it will allow me to show you how to set up smelting, crafting and  eating, not to mention you’ll get to

See me build my dream house! – Excellent! I’ve no doubt that soon you’ll be creating the most awesome mods of your own. The most  creative mods will be featured in my very next modding video, so go to town and have a lot  of fun, and post your mods in the studio linked

In the description under this video! 😀 [Remix Paper Minecraft – and Save Issue] Ok – Shall we begin! Load up the latest  version of Paper Minecraft (If you need it, there’s a link to that too in the description) Now Remix, and the fun really begins! 😊 – Just

A word of advise. This is a large project,  and if you find Scratch tells you it can’t save, just try clicking the “green flag” to  reset the project, and that should solve the problem and it will save once more. [Find / Draw your Costumes]

Right, I’m going to add a Cheese block, so  I need some cheese costumes. You won’t be surprised that the Minecraft community already  have some suitable content that I could borrow! I could have grabbed the assets from the rat  mod webpage, but for the best quality, I went

Ahead and extracted the original images from the  rat mod source files. If you need them too, then these will also be linked in the description. Back in Scratch, we need to add the costumes to the “Tiles” sprite. This is just full  of Minecraft block and item costumes.

Just make sure you ALWAYS add new costumes to the  bottom of the list, changing the costume numbers of existing items will really mess up the game! [Costume Size] So here’s my new cheese block, we just  need to ensure it’s correctly sized.

Select all (Ctrl + A), and drag while hold  “alt” to keep it centred. The final size wants to be 10 of these grid squares tall (or  40×40 pixels if you go by the costume size) Repeat this for as many costumes as you need.  It’s a little trickier with non block items as

The sizing is a little harder to gauge. It’s  actually 2 and a half times larger than the imported costume if you want to know. Ok! I want the cheese item first… [Modding the _BLOCK_DATA list] So, paper Minecraft is super meta – We

Have many lists of data that drive the game. The “_BLOCK_DATA” list (make it visible) contains information on each and  every tile and item in the game. Now we could edit the list directly  in Scratch, but to be honest,

It’s much easier to handle if we right click the  list, and choose to export it to our computer. Then we can load up the list in notepad,  or notepad++ if you have that because I love being able to “clone the view”. This  opens the same file twice side by side,

And you’ll see why this is cool in a moment. So – This text file follows a record structure. Each record is 20 lines long, and separated from  the next record by a single blank line. A record

Exists for every tile or item in Paper Minecraft. This top record though is a special header record, and it just tells us what each  line of a record is used for. The best way to add a new block is by  copying a record that’s already there.

Our cheese item is similar to any small  item… so how about we copy… a gold ingot? It’s costume number 42. We search up the costume number 42 in the block data file, and here we go, you  can see the title Gold Ingot, and the item number

Just above, and above that the single space  that separates records. So this gold ingot is Item number 84. Item numbers are not linked to  costumes at all, it’s worth remembering that. So select the entire record, all 20 lines  and copy them to the clipboard. We’ll drop

To the end of the text document, and paste  these on the end, making sure to leave only a single blank line between this new record  and the previous one. Don’t leave any more, or any less otherwise this won’t work. [What to change]

So this is where having the second  view of this file comes in useful, I can match up the lines of our record with  the header lines from the top of the document. See the description matching  up with the description line?

Now we edit – The item number first… This  must always follow on from the record above. That was 287… So, the next item number is 288. Next we give it a name; “Piece of Cheese”. None of these other settings are important  right now, except – row 15 tells us which

Category under the creative menu the block should  be filed under. Perhaps Materials? that’s an 8. “Tile Sprite ID”, now this IS the costume number  of this tile. Cheese is 308. Pop that in. We get to specify the costume again, just  in case we want a different costume when it

Is displayed in the inventory, 308 again. Ooh – Last change. Row 19 says Root Item ID. Items with the same root id can be used  interchangeably for crafting, so all woods might share the same number. If not, just enter  it’s own block ID to keep it unique, 288.

[Import the list back into Scratch] Cool! Now before we move back into Scratch, make sure to SAVE the text file to your computer! Then, we can right click the list, and this time, Import. Selecting  our updated _BLOCK_DATA.txt file.

Ok, might be worth scooting down and confirming  the new block is there at the bottom – Yep, Piece of cake… I mean cheese!  Excellent, we are ready for a quick test! Hide the block data, before smashing that green  flag! And, jump right into creative mode.

Under materials right? Yes! There  it is, a piece of cheese 😊 – And the tooltip works too – Love that! Hey… Is cheese throwing a thing? I think I might have invented a new game… [Smelting] Now I really wish we had cauldrons in paper  mincecraft for curdling our milk into cheese,

But the next best thing would be a furnace.  Smelting milk into cheese will have to do – and it’s dead easy to configure. It’s there in the Block data header! “Smelt into Block ID”. So, just remember that our cheese is item number 288. Then find the word “milk” in our block list.

Here we go, this must be the bucket of milk  record. I’ll just line it up with the headers. Line 12 is for smelting, so just replace  the 0 with 288 (a piece of cheese) This next line is important too, “Burn in furnace,

Duration in seconds”. Set that to 10 seconds…  I’ll keep it short to I can show you it working! Right, make sure to save the file again, and  then re-import it into the _BLOCK_DATA list. Go go go!!! A furnace, a  Bucket of milk, and some coal…

Nothing like some warm milk on a cold day…! Or cheese!?! What a happy surprise! Hey where’d my buckets go? – ummm… Back to  our favourite past time, cheese throwing… [Block of Cheese] Now let’s add that “block of cheese” – Costume 209. This one’s  a placeable block too so that will be fun!

We can begin by finding and copying the “dirt”  block as that is a simple solid block. Paste it down at the bottom, with that single blank  line to separate it from the previous record. We need to increase the block id, from  288, so this will be block id 289.

Great – Line up the headings! Name: “Block of Cheese”. Yes, it’s a solid block this time, the  hardness can be soft like dirt, 0.5. You can look these numbers up on the Minecraft wiki. Digging tool – We don’t even need a spade (S),

So set this to N for no tool required This isn’t a liquid, and doesn’t fall (like sand or gravel). Tile group – we can use this to give the tile sound when walked on, or apply other game  properties, but no, we don’t need that right now.

When the block is harvested, we don’t want  to switch it for another block, leave as 0. We’re not smelting or getting hurt by the block. Ah, now then, the creative mode category. I have decided we should recategorize the  cheeses under foodstuffs, number 5.

Tile sprite ID, the cheese block was  Costume number 309. Enter that in. And repeat it for the inventory costume, 309. Lastly, the root id needs to be set to  the same number as this block id, 289.

That’s all of it, Except to go back and make  the piece of cheese appear under the foodstuffs category too.; A change from 8 to 5 – foodstuffs. Yay! – Save the file, and – back in Scratch, import the updated block list! Feeling good about this! We can

See the cheese item and block are both in  the foodstuffs category! Yessss – So cool! Because now I can finally build my dream  house!!! 😀 – Man! What’s not to love! That is so cool. [Simple Crafting Recipe]

But what would Minecraft be without crafting  – How about we add a crafting recipe to craft a cheese block from 4 pieces of cheese? And for this, we need to locate another Scratch List, the “_Recipes” list. It’s not as complex as the BLOCK data list,

But still worth exporting to your  PC for easier editing if you can. You’ll see there are only 4 lines  to each record in this list. Recipe description, Product (that’s the item  number), quantity – how many items you craft in

One go & the Recipe – more on that in a moment! Just select the top record, the 4 line starting with the words wooden plank.  And copy that to the clipboard. We’ll paste this at the bottom of the file, as  before leaving a gap of one line between records.

And now we modify this new record. My BLOCK DATA list is still open here on the right, so I can find the details  for the block of cheese in there… Copy the name and paste it in the recipe Also, the block number, is 289,

This is the block being crafted. The quantity is the count of items crafted, just 1 for a block of cheese. And lastly, we have the encoded recipe. Let’s go over how this is formatted! Here is the crafting table for our

Cheese block. Always ensure the recipe is  pushed to the bottom left of the table. We enter the item number for the piece of cheese  (288), and any empty tiles we write in as a #.

And then, what we do, is begin at the bottom  left, and write out the 3 digit number. 288. If the number was shorter than 3 digits, like item  number “7”, then we’d pad it out with leading

Spaces “ 7”. So it’s always 3 characters long. The next number is 288 again, so we enter that right after the last, without leaving a gap. 288.  Again we would pad it out with spaces if needed. Then the #, and this too is padded out to  the left with spaces… “space space #”.

We repeat this onto the next line… 288288 #. And the final row, space space hash, space space hash, & space space hash! That’s it. I’ll enter the completed recipe under the last just so we can compare, notice how the columns  line up, and the 3 digit numbers are all right

Aligned padded out with spaces. Good – Delete that old row above. Save the file, and come back into Scratch. We just import the new recipes file, and we are good to smash that green flag! Now stock up with pieces of cheese…

Then, press T to talk, and enter  /gm s to switch to survival mode, and we can test out a bit of crafting! Use the space key to separate the cheeses out –  Wow, Nice! The recipe worked! 😊 – That’s so cool. Let’s do it again – haha!  There’s no stopping us now 😀

[Reverse Crafting Recipe] Want the reverse recipe, to split the block back into 4 cheeses? Duplicate the previous recipe, leaving a single line gap. We are crafting a “piece of cheese”. That’s item number 288. We want to craft 4 pieces from one block. And the recipe code is a single tile of 289,

The block of cheese. Pad the rest  out with space space hashes! Save! And, Import the recipe  text file into Scratch… And TEST! Grab a Block of cheese… Jump into survival… and craft… Three blocks of cheese, makes 12 pieces of cheese – splendid! And we can craft  them back into blocks at whim 😊

[Eating Cheese] So apart from building houses, what can we do with cheese? Hey villager, want some cheese? No…? Wait… I can’t eat the cheese? Yep, there’s yet another list to  be looked at! The _FOOD_DATA list. Shall we export it and take a look? It’s the

Normal format… I’ll clone it to the other  view we can check out how it works. Here’s a Cake, which is block ID 111 in our game. We just copy all 6 lines, and  moving down to the bottom,

Paste it with a single line gap as normal. So, we want to eat a piece of cheese. That’s “288, Piece of Cheese”, I  can paste those two lines right in. Hunger points is next. Now luckily I can look these values up in the Rats mod  wiki – Hunger Points is 3, see?

Stuff that value in. And Saturation – That’s affects how long it is before you need to  eat again, this has a value of 0.5. Cool. Chance of food poisoning, nah we don’t  need that, and after eating nothing remains… so leave that too. We are done. Save the file,

And go back to Scratch. You know what to do, Import the list and run the project! Filling up with cheese now… And Eat… ah… oh… Oh ok, of course I’m  not hungry. Well… I guess I’d better do some exercise – Hold on… And… it’s dinner time!!! 😀 [Outro] Well I hope

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