Simple Coins is a Minecraft 1.11.2 Mod made in Java, that expands the trading experience between players and villagers, Mod intends to cater to a more “authentic” economic experience, with a “Mint” block to create iron and gold coins. Simple Coins is implemented with the Minecraft Forge API.

The mod would add two coins (Iron and Gold) that could only be created with the Mint Block. There would also be a Banker Villager where you could trade your coins for emeralds.

Development

Created during my freshman year winter break, Simple Coins was my first and only endeavor in Minecraft Forge Modding, or anything related to game development for that matter.

I kept track of the progress of the development through a Blogger site I created and intended to use long term. The latter never happened.

If there was one thing I would go back and change about this project, is just how the readable the code is. This was at the time when I would use the variable name “list” for a single list object in a class, rather than say, “configElementList”. The lack of comments is something I would’ve changed as well. I’ve learned little documentation makes it hard on not only other developers, but also yourself if they wan to make changes or observe what you’ve done.

Final Words

Simple Coins was a fun project. I’m glad I made the jump and tried something new. Not only did I learn about Git, I learned about my new-found interest in Game Development.