I finally picked up Minecraft again after more than a year of not touching it. I really wanted to make a video series about me re-experiencing Minecraft but I don't have the time nor resources to do a good job. I picked it up because I found a Pokemon mod called Pokemobs.

Its an ambitious mod development that intends to get a highly functional 1st gen like game working in Minecraft. You could look it up to download, but its a bit broken. It absolutely will not work on 1.1 and its dysfunctional since Beta 1.8. I spent most of yesterday getting it to partially work, but finding Pokemon is a pain in it since you have to travel to freshly generated areas. They only spawn at this time.

If you play 1.7 there is a lot working with the mod, but of course you don't have a lot of the fun Minecraft default features of Beta 1.8 and later.

So I post this journal because I might contact the developer and ask if there is anything I might do. The language is Java, the one I want to career in. My strong hesitancy is that, one: I have no hard coding experience in Java; two: I have very little free time; three: I fear I might be tempted to copy code ideas to my ambitious "2D Minecraft" game idea called Weathervein.

Pokemobs sounds exciting to work with and a good excuse to practice programming.

You can find the mod's main page here. [link] But as I said, getting it to work in its current state is a real pain.

~Eclipsis