In your new profile page, your profile image (that’s the circle at the top of the page) is automatically downloaded from your connected Minecraft avatar’s skin – change your Minecraft skin to change this image! Auto-displayed below are the date you joined, your Stats, Badges, and Artifacts earned. Below that, you can customize what content you want to showcase!

Now, any LearnToMod user can get to your profile by finding one of your public mods and clicking on your Minecraft avatar’s face:

Check out Notch’s profile page for inspiration:

Notch has way to much XP… #jealous

To customize your Profile, choose “My Profile” from the Social tab on the homepage!

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We’ve specifically made some mods that are playable in your browser using the Vox-L game engine! But of course these mods should work in Minecraft too. LearnToMod modders can explore and remix this code to create their own mini-games:

Check out the new Vox-L Arena Mod — Grab your sword and shield and get ready to fight off a wave of zombies in the battle to end all battles!

The Vox-L Hallway of Doom — Fight for your life in this wave-based survival mod!

Want to make your own Vox-L mod? Carlos, one of our LearnToMod devs, has released an quick-and-easy tutorial on the Forums.

Vox-L Release 0.12

We’re excited about the new 0.12 release of our Vox-L game engine! There are some fixes and new features that LearnToMod users will be psyched about:

Bug fixes

* Music volume is now set to 0 by default.  Can be increased via music artifact.

* All assets, including light sabers, should now display correctly in the character’s hand when viewed in the character window.

* When items are obtained, they will correctly “stack” in your inventory.

UI Changes

* When items are obtained, they no longer are added to your hotbar.  They can be dragged there from the main inventory window, though.

* A 3×3 crafting window now pops up when you press ‘e’.  You can drag items to and from it.

Artifacts

* The “block drops” artifact now causes blocks to be removed from the inventory when you place them — more consistent with Minecraft survival mode.

* New – Basic recipes artifact.  Adds Minecraft-style recipes for swords and axes.

* New – Give all items artifact.  Gives you all items and blocks when Voxl loads.  Waits for 30 seconds before doing this, so that it can include items and blocks defined by other artifacts.

Nab this Vox-L Artifact in the Artifacts shop!

Javascript API

* Recipes can now be defined via javascript.  See new recipe artifact source code for example.

* “Loot window” can now be populated and popped up via javascript.  Example: me.setLootWindowItems([“Diamond”, “Cactus”]).  Items can be dragged between the loot window and the player’s inventory window.

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There’s definitely more to come for customizing your Vox-L character and using the new inventory system! Here are the actual release notes from the developers:

Music:
* New artifact: Lets you set the default music volume
* Without the artifact, the music volume is 0.2 (much quieter than before)

Inventory:
* Pressing ‘e’ brings up an inventory window and a character window.
* Character window shows a rendering of the player’s avatar with items equipped.
* Items can be dragged between the two windows and the hotbar. (NOTE: dragging only works in the downloaded version currently. Will work in the browser on the next release.)

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Our team has been working on some pretty fantastic Minecraft mods this week! But feel free to take our code, remix it, and make it your own. That’s what we’re here for!

The Star Wars Force Mod implements lightsabers, the force, force lightning, and a pretty awesome texture pack!

In the Paintball Mini-Game Mod, play a multiplayer paintball game with your friends – Eggs vs. Snowballs! The arena is different EVERY TIME!

It’s time to one-hit kill some Ender Dragons with the OP Sword Mod. What other weapons could you make OP? Remix this mod and find out!

Vox-L version 0.10 is live on LearnToMod!

The release notes from the developers reveal tons of awesome new features to play with:

World Persistence:

* Changes made in Vox-L worlds will now be saved automatically

* Schematics will be automatically created out of things you build in Vox-L

* Editing these schematics in the schematic editor will change the in-Vox-L structures and vice versa

* Schematics from can be loaded into Minecraft and vice versa (was already a feature, but more significant now that schematics are generated automatically in Vox-L)

Player is now a physical object:

* Player will get knocked back by attacking creatures

* Player can push other physical objects out of the way

* Player is affected by gravity blocks (see below)

* Player’s head bobs when player lands

Music:

* Several procedural music tracks are automatically mixed at runtime to produce ambient music

New World Artifact:

* Stone Island world.  Small world that loads quickly.  Good for testing.  Looks cool with the Earth skybox (feels like you’re on the moon).

New Weapon Artifacts:

* Black hole wand

* Sun wand

* Diamond wand

* Fire sword

* Lightning Mace

Use the force inside of Vox-L! Check out the new Light Sabers in the Artifacts Shop!

* Light Saber Pack:

    * Blue

    * Red

    * Green

    * Purple

Custom Block Artifacts:

* Pack of 6 Mario-themed blocks

Ready to break some blocks, Mario-style? Check out the new Mario Blocks in the Artifacts Shop!

* Pack of 25 spaceship themed sci-fi blocks

Gameplay Artifacts:
* Gravity block (attracts nearby physical objects — NPCs, players, balls, block drops, etc.).  Multiple gravity blocks can be used in tandem to multiple physical forces on things.

This green block has a gravitational pull! WHAT!? Check out the new Gravity Block in the Artifacts Shop!

* Block drops — Breaking blocks will drop an item pickup of the broken block’s type.

UI:

* Downloaded Vox-L will display “Loading…” in bottom left when the in-game browser is loading (helps ameliorate the feeling that the game is not responding when you click a UI element that loads a new page).

* Downloaded Vox-L’s normal blockly coding interface (non-badges) now has a back button in the tool bar.

* Web version loads slightly faster when you have large numbers of artifacts or a large persistent world

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If you haven’t noticed under the Learn tab, this past month 5 new sets of badges were added for making some really awesome new mods! Let’s take a look at what mods we’ll learn how to make:

Pokemon-Inspired Mods

In the “Gotta Catch Some” badge set, you’ll learn how to catch mobs in snowballs (which we’ll make look like Pokeballs), add them to your inventory, and summon them whenever you want! While we can’t make Mobs that look like Pokemon (YET!), you can still learn how to write a mod to “catch ’em all”  and become the ultimate Mob collector!

Star Wars Mod

In the “Star Wars” badge set, you’ll learn how to write a mod that allows you to manipulate the force in Minecraft: create force lightning, flings blocks left and right, and brainwash the minds of Mobs. You’ll even be using a light saber!

Mario Mod

In the “Mamma Mia!” badge set, you’ll learn how to make a mod that will let you stomp on creatures and break brick blocks with your head! You’ll also learn how to give yourself different Mario power-up effects, like Fireballs & Flying!

The HeroBrine Mod

Have you ever wanted to scare your friends by making Herobrine appear for them on your server? Spooky… In this scary mod, you’ll make a Herobrine appear and throws skulls at the feet of anyone who gets near.

The Avenger’s Mod

More to come…

We’ve been working on lots of cool new mod features! Keep an eye on the Artifacts shop for new multi-colored glowstones that are sure to light up your day.

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Train Your Sidekick Tutorials

Want to learn how to train a creeper to be your sidekick? (Or what about an Enderman or Cow?) I hope you answer with a resounding YES because that’s the correct answer!  Want your sidekick to attack your enemies? We’ll teach you how to do that! Want to customize the way your sidekick looks? We gave our creeper sidekick, Billy, a sweet pair of pink shades. Our new badge series will teach you how to mod the AI (“artificial intelligence”) of a Minecraft mob and how to edit the texture of a Minecraft mob with our Texture Pack Painter tool! Let the games begin! Share your sidekicks with us here on the blog or tweet us a video using our Twitter handle @learntomod!

Javascript Mini-Game

Although Javascript modding has been available for several months, we’ve released our first Javascript tutorial series! (FINALLY, right?) This tutorial series is aimed to help our experienced Blockly modders begin the epic transition to Javascript modding! We work through a simple monster arena mini-game mod, but we take one step at a time to turn all that Blockly into Javascript!

New Look for the Learn Tab

The Learn page has a new look! Most of the LearnToMod badges you’re used to seeing are under the “Skills and Drills” category! Why is there broccoli pictured there? Well, because as my wise mom used to say, “you have to eat your broccoli before you can have your dessert”. Skills & Drills are necessary evils in life (like broccoli), and you need to do a bunch of these before you’ll be truly prepared for the fun tutorials, like the new Javascript Mini-Game & Sidekick tutorials! Of course, we hope our Skills & Drills are more fun than broccoli, but you get the metaphor now, right?

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(Credit to Greghole at FinMine)

Although our faces were stuffed full with turkey, the LearnToMod Team still had time to push out an awesome update!

Artifacts Shop

Use the diamonds you earn from quests to start buying your first artifacts! We have a couple of artifacts available for purchase right now. You can use these artifacts in Vox-L (our new Minecraft-compatible mod-testing game engine). Try out a Fire Meteor explosion! Soon you’ll be able to add this effect to your favorite mod!!

Stand-Alone Vox-L

For those who aren’t able to get Vox-L to work yet in your browser, try the stand-alone download version! Let us know how it goes by sending an e-mail to learntomod@thoughtstem.com.

New Quests

There are now new quests that recommend LearnToMod badges for you to try! Do the badges to earn more diamonds and experience points! It takes a lot of diamonds to purchase multiplayer Vox-L… I wonder who’s going to get to purchase it first!

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Quests

Have you seen this sneaky little symbol in the top left hand corner of your mod.learntomod.com dashboard? No? Go check it out! This is our new “Quests” feature! In the future, we hope Quests will help guide you on your modding journey. When you complete Quests, we’ll give you Diamonds & XP as rewards. In the future, you’ll be able to  cash in your Diamonds for more fun features on the site. Check back for future updates about our “Shop”. (Coming soon!)

Take the new Quests feature for a test-drive right now!! There’s only 2 Quests available right now, but keep coming back for MORE!

Vox-L Game Engine

Our 1st Quest is to test out Vox-L! What’s Vox-L? Vox-L is a browser game that’s compatible with Minecraft mods, texture packs, worlds, and schematics, but Vox-L is also extendable beyond Minecraft. In the future, Vox-L could be compatible with other voxel-based games!

What are voxels, you ask? Voxels are just cubes, and voxel games are just games based in these 3-dimensional grid/cube worlds. A ton of games are voxel-based, including all these fun games on Steam.

We’re just piloting Vox-L right now, and making sure it works on all the usual browsers & operating systems, but soon Vox-L might be what you test your Minecraft mods in before you launch them to your private Minecraft server! All the power of a voxel game engine in your browser! 

If you’re not a current LearnToMod user, you can find more information about LearnToMod’s Features here!

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Want to know how to make your own zombie apocalypse? Tune into our Twitch Channel and help us escape the horde! Join our professional modders Sarah & Erik tomorrow at 5pm PDT/8pm EDT!

New Worlds!

Lots of new maps are now available to play in on your LearnToMod private servers! Three maps from the Game of Thrones series (Winterfell, The Dreadfort, and King’s Landing by cyborgratchet), two new city maps (Modern City by MC_Nightmare and Manhattan by C_B_John), and a small town map (Greenfield by THEJESTR.) Go to mod.learntomod.com to find these and load them up on your servers!

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Noticed any changes lately in the UI on LearnToMod? Now curated and user-contributed content are visible on the same page! This helps you find the stuff that we recommend you check out, as well as all the cool stuff LearnToMod users are making around the world!

More Texture Packs!

We’ve been aggregating some of the most popular texture packs around the Minecraft community so that you can load them directly onto your private servers! Try some out today by visiting this page.

If you have suggestions for other texture packs you’d like to see on LearnToMod, leave a comment below!

Improving Entity Physics Systems!

Have you made a custom mob yet using the LearnToMod Client-Side Modding system? (You can find info about client-side modding at the top of the Forums section here.) We’re working on making the physics of these mobs (entities) more realistic and fun! More to come on this…

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