I peridocially fall of the wagon and get drawn back into playing Minecraft. I’ve decided that, in order to make this time not wasted, I need to do something constructive with this urge. Last time I played Minecraft, I found the MultiMC launcher would no longer work. Being a fan of C++ and open source projects, I was not happy with this state. A friend suggested I try the PrismLauncher fork of the code base.

Prism does not seem to have a native Debian based build available, although I admit I did not look very hard. I don’t want to install flatpacks or other binary management software just for one app. So, I figured I would build from sources.

Continuing my attempt to update what I know about modding minecraft from 1.8 to 1.15. Based on my experience from this book;

I have not touched the mod code I wrote for a couple years now. When Arun and Aditya Gupta wrote their book, the current version of Minecraft was 1.8. That was five years ago, and the current version is 1.15. Some things have changed. I want to document what I need to do to get my old mods running again on the newer version.

My starting point is that I have a working version of Minecraft and the comparable version of forge. Lets take it from there.

I want to shoot a ray. And not just parallel to one of the axis of the cartesion coordinate system. I want to look in a direction and shoot a ray in that direction. I want to be able to shoot aray in any direction and walk on it. Like certain ice based superheros. And now I can do that.
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Minecraft is a land of Cubes. And yet, in this blockland, it turns out the circle is a very powerful tool. Using the basics of trigonometry, we can build all sorts of things.
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