List of Topics [1.8 - outdated]

This is a list of the topics relevant to Minecraft 1.8.  Minecraft 1.6 and 1.7 are covered here.

Some sample code can be found here.

List of Topics

~The most important Minecraft Classes
~The most important Minecraft Classes... continued

~Overview of Forge (and what it can do for you)
    Forge concepts
           Some general notes
           How Forge starts up your code (@Mod, @SidedProxy, etc)  
           Registering your classes
           Extra methods for vanilla base classes
           Events

~Blocks
    Block Rendering
       How Blocks are rendered
       Defining a Block Model JSON file
       Texturing the Block Model
       Troubleshooting Block Rendering
       Mapping IBlockStates to the right block model
    Redstone

~Items
      Item Rendering
      Troubleshooting Item Rendering

~Mining Blocks With Tools
    Logic flow of vanilla block mining code
    Calculating rate of damage when mining

Tile Entities

GUI containers (chests, furnaces, crafting table)

Recipes

General Rendering Topics
     Using the Tessellator for custom rendering
     How Lighting Works

Entities
    Notes on Entity Rotation (Yaw and Pitch)

~The Minecraft main game loop
~Processing User Input (Mouse, Keyboard)
~Client-side Class Linkage Map
~Server-side Class Linkage Map

~Client<-->Server communication
    Vanilla Client<-->Server Communication
    Client<-->Server communication using your own custom messages (SimpleNetworkWrapper)
    Thread safety with Network Messages