Hi this is sunrise moon today I’m going to show you how to make your own um item in Minecraft um the beginning you’re gonna have to install make my item the make my item mod and mod loader gonna provide links to this in the description of the video huh um The finished product will look something like this any tool you’d like that can have any power you’d like even being able to make a pickaxe mine through dirt immediately or with 6000 durability for a SAT might be a bit Overkill and considered cheating by some people but still fun to make uh-huh So to begin you’re going to uh need it can be a notepad or anything or text edit or anything like that so just make a new text file and um so first uh depending the pound sign then the name of your item I’m going to call this a dirt pickaxe Now you want to type in the item ID and IDs can range from anything from uh well I think all the IDS below by Minecraft but huh um the ones above that are free to use for your items so you just put any idea like that 580 I’m just gonna use 580 for This huh so now you want to do your crafting recipe first put in a question mark and now um you type in three variables uh for the first variable I’m going to use x second one will be pound sign and then the number of items that uh Your crafting recipe will make so I only want one dirt pickaxe per um crafting recipe so I’m just gonna put one there so now you want to Define your variables type on Asterix followed by your variable followed by an equal sign and Then followed by the item id of The item that will be uh that you’ll be using in your crafting recipe so I’m going to use dirt in the top and the header so I’m gonna say three because um the item ID for dirt is three then I’m going to also put uh a stick and for the pound sign And the item ID for a pound sock and first a stick is 280. okay so now you’re gonna Define your uh the durability you want to Define your quality well uh the default for quality is wood so you might want to make it better than that I’m going to say diamond Then you also want to put your type since I’m doing a pickaxe I’m going to say pick type equals pick and then your durability the default for diamond is two thousand is a thousand five hundred and sixty two or something so I’m going to do seven thousand because I want a high number Huh so now save your item is dirt pickaxe dot item so use dot iron um if you are in your application support if you’re on a Mac or your dot Minecraft uh folder if you’re on Windows you want to make a folder called mod within that you put all your all the Item files for your items so I have I’ve made a ton of items so far so dirt pickaxe dot item right uh so put it in there then uh Now You’re Gonna Want to mod the picture into the minecraft.jar loading still loading Okay so you won’t see this figure on Windows but If you’re on Mac you will do be doing this so inside your minecraft.jar you have a file called uh Truman a folder so go inside that there will be another folder inside there called items so now you want a in this folder you put the picture of your item and it has to Be named exactly with the item file is named um I haven’t made a picture yet uh the pictures have to be 16 by 16. I’ll go ahead and make a real quick one probably be terrible but don’t judge me but I say probably I meant it will be terrible Okay whatever it doesn’t matter so I’m gonna save this as dirt pickaxe dot PNG so save to your desktop or wherever then you want to place it in your uh minecraft.jar so now I’m going to um close my Minecraft up jar you need off to close my Minecraft to So that’s editing the bin this is completed so I’m gonna read the Minecraft real quickly all right so that’s loaded I’m gonna go uh just break a tree for sticks and then mine some dirt okay so now I have four sticks is there so if I did this right which I hope I Did there you go dirt pickaxe it won’t be the background won’t be wide if you uh don’t make it white but um you have to be should make it transparent I suggest using gym to make a transparent there you go it’s about as good as diamond And that’s the end of this video I’ll try and upload some more tutorials on uh making other types of items instead of just tools um subscribe bye Video Information
This video, titled ‘Tutorial: Make your own Minecraft items – Tools’, was uploaded by Sunrisemo0n on 2011-02-03 04:26:44. It has garnered 78350 views and 101 likes. The duration of the video is 00:08:58 or 538 seconds.
Ever wanted to make a pickaxe that can mine through anything? Want to extremely over power your tools? Want to just be introduced to making tools? Then quit reading this and watch the video immediately.
Links: makeMyItem – http://minecraftmmi.forumotion.com/ Modloader – http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=80246
Instructions on how to install the mods are included on their respective pages.
To mod the item’s image into the game: Windows: 1) Open up %appdata%, if you don’t know how to do this, start, run, then type in %appdata% 2) Browse to .minecraft/bin 3) Open up minecraft.jar with WinRAR or 7zip. 4) Drag and drop image file /triman/items inside the jar. 5) Delete the META-INF folder in the jar. 6) Run Minecraft, enjoy!
Macintosh: 1. Go to Applications, then Utilities and open terminal. 2. Type in the following, line by line:
cd ~ mkdir mctmp cd mctmp jar xf ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/bin/minecraft.jar
3. Outside of terminal, copy the image file into /triman/items inside the mctmp folder. 4. Back inside terminal, type in the following:
rm META-INF/MOJANG_C.* jar uf ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/bin/minecraft.jar ./ cd .. rm -rf mctmp
5. Run Minecraft, enjoy!
Also, I got my desktop background here: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=36835