Minecraft Legends Modding Devlog 1

Where one legend ends, another one begins

Author: SmokeyStack

Published: 1st November 2023

Welcome to My Devlog

This devlog is just to help me document my journey in modding Minecraft Legends. Will also be useful when editing the modding wiki. Why a blog and not a vlog? For starters my device that I play Legends on cannot even run the game smoothly so trying to record on top of that will be a nightmare. Secondly, I like writing like blogs.

My plan for modding Minecraft Legends, is to just mess around with the game. Minecraft Legends is based on a modified Bedrock Engine(Branch of 1.6/1.17). And there are some really cool things they have that I wish were ported to the main game. One of those cool things is their world generation api. So I decided to dabble in that then.

After poking through the code and countless hours, I managed to get a singular building to spawn.

What's interesting about Village Generation in Legends is, that it uses a DECK system. You have a deck which has cards in it. Each card represents something in the village. It could be a building, walls, districts or zones. The districts or zones can contain multiple cards. So when you're making a village you're essentially just making a deck of cards. At least that's how I interpret this system.

What I wanted to do next was place some walls around this singular building. So I looked at the official modding docs and the vanilla files for references to the cards. I threw together something and got the walls to generate!...kind of.

Yeah...that's a bit too far from the center piece. My mistake was that I accidentally put PlacementPreferenceCard(PLACEMENT_FAR_FROM_VILLAGE_START) rather than PlacementPreferenceCard(PLACEMENT_CLOSE_FROM_VILLAGE_START) which tells the game to put the wall piece card the farthest away from the center. After fixing that mistake here's what I got.

So that concludes this first devlog. I hope to get more things done next week. I might dive into the biome system next. The community docs for village generation should be up sometime this month?