MCreator as a Minecraft modding IDE
MCreator is more than a modding tool—it's a powerful Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Minecraft coding and mod development. Whether you're a beginner creating your first mod or an experienced developer, MCreator provides everything you need to streamline the Minecraft modding experience.
MCreator transforms Minecraft coding and modding into a smoother, more efficient process by delivering all the essentials of a powerful development environment tailored for Minecraft. At its core, MCreator’s IDE provides intuitive, productivity-boosting features, making bringing your modding ideas to life easier.
Key IDE features include:
- Autocomplete: Intelligent autocompletion tailored specifically for Minecraft development, providing code suggestions for both Minecraft’s core functions and custom mod elements.
- Syntax Highlighting: Clear, colorful syntax highlighting helps make your code more readable and manageable, reducing errors and increasing your productivity.
- Code Tree Navigation: Keep your code organized and accessible with a structured code tree, allowing easy access to your project files and assets.
- Jump to Declaration: Quickly navigate to method and variable declarations, allowing you to understand your code's structure and dependencies effortlessly.
- Javadoc Viewer: Gain quick insights and explanations for Java methods and fields directly within the IDE, helping you understand Minecraft’s API with ease.
- Debugger with breakpoints: Set breakpoints to pause and analyze code execution, so you can pinpoint issues efficiently.
- Execution counter for procedures: Set breakpoints in procedures to analyze how many times and on what logical side (server or client) the procedure branches run
- Thread View & Stack View: Track and manage threads, inspect stack traces, and analyze your mod’s behavior for complex operations.
- Build Error Highlighting: Identify and resolve issues quickly with real-time error highlighting during the build process.
MCreator adds a standard Java debugger that utilizes Java DBI to function. Debugger allows Minecraft mod developer to view threads of the JVM and their status, put breakpoints, view stack frames on a breakpoint hit, and step into/out/over when stepping execution in a breakpoint mode.
MCreator also adds a debugger for its procedure system, allowing one to investigate what procedure branches get called, when they get called, how many times they get called, and whether execution is running on the Minecraft Server side, or Minecraft Client side. This makes it very easy to diagnose if a procedure is called, and on what side it is called and replaces the need to print into the console.
Debug markers also have minimal performance impact, meaning high-performance every-tick procedures can also be debugged and counted/monitored.