Tutorial: Custom crafting machine block

MCreator Tutorial - Using procedures for a custom crafting block

As the answer to multiple requests, we made a tutorial on how to create a fully operational custom crafting block using the MCreator's new procedure system.

This kind of tutorial was the most requested one since the release of the procedure system that allowed doing such modifications. In this video, you will learn how to:

Create a block with its own inventory
Implement your own crafting procedure
Design a GUI for crafting-table-like blocks
Open a GUI using the procedures

The modification introduces a new crafting-table-like block which can be used for fusing Redstone Dust, Diamonds and Gold with Iron Blocks. You put 1 iron block in the top left slot and one of the 3 materials to create Red Iron, Diamond Blocks or Gold Blocks.

The mod and its workspace file can be downloaded on the modification's page.

You can find some more examples and help with procedures on our procedure system reference wiki page. If you have any questions or recommendations, leave a comment in the comment section below. Stay tuned!

Comments

You will be able to define them in-game using commands and structure blocks, import in MCreator and use them in your mod.

"Added option to import structures using the structure block"
1.8.0 is going to be one of the best mcreator updates ever XD! Does it work with modded blocks?

Yes, it works with modded blocks and mobs, I have tested it :)

That's awesome! :D

TO HARD I RAGE QUITED!!!

You can use the sample workspace and build on top of that if starting from the ground up is too hard if you still have motivation.

In a little time you fixed a lot of schematics bugs and added a lot of features in 1.8.0! I can't wait its release! :D

I am working on fixing some more bugs and on finishing stage 1 of MCreator 2 plans. After I complete this, MCreator 1.8.0 will be there.

Good for the futur mods, especially the technics mods! I thought make a technic mod, for the fun!
Good tutorial!

Thanks! I hope you will be able to make even better mods with the help of our tutorial :)

here's a concern i have: shift-clicking an item into a slot in a custom gui is fine, but if you accidentally shift-click an empty slot, the game crashes.

It will be fixed in the next version of Mcreator

JDLENL, check the Changelog of MCreator 1.8.0 for more information.

Does setting 0 as biome size make that biome not spawn in the overworld?
Because in old mcreator versions I found a biome in my world that wasn't supposed to spawn. Now, just for testing, I made a biome with size 0 and downloaded a mod that helps finding biomes (Nature's compass). It was able to find every vanilla (except the end and the nether) and custom biome, however it didn't find the test biome with 0 size.

This should work like this, yes.

And make sure to check the changelog for MCreator 1.8.0, I have just imported the workspace you sent me last week and in MCreator 1.8.0, it was imported in under a minute :)

That's awesome :D

how to you add your mod on minecraft?

You need to export a mod and install it like any ordinary Minecraft Forge mod. Once you export the mod, you can check for tutorials on how to install a mod on our website (use search tool of this website).

i need help. every time when i make the gui the error thing keeps on popping up and it is nothing else is wrong. it even not working with out the button.

Copy the error log and open a support ticket. Before you do so, use the website search and check the existing tickets in the tracker as there most likely already exists a ticket that is covering your error.

I thought "random tick updates" worked in a similar way to vanilla.
Crops use random tick rate and grow slowly. I have also made some crops, and used tick rate instead of random tick rate, then I discovered that vanilla crops use random tick rate and I decided to use random tick rate for my crops too.
Then, I tried to place the crops and they grew very fasyly. I also placed some vanilla crops and they still were very slow.
So, what's exactly "random update event"?
(PS: you can easily reproduce the "bug" with the workspace I sent to you: just place a few tomato seeds on farmland or a few growing bushes anywhere)
Sorry for bad English