Mods and Minecraft ? A day in the life II

I?ve been playing Minecraft now since Beta Pre-release 1.8.1 and now we?re at Release 1.3.2, so it?s been a while.

I thought that I should write a little about Mods and how to install and run them in Minecraft, for friends who may not be on the forum where I do most of my writing about Minecraft.

Summary:
The finding and downloading of safe mods for Minecraft is somewhat fraught (but not too bad) and there aren?t great guides all the time or easily found that talk about installing and using them. Certainly I had to struggle a lot to find a good how-to and it presumed a lot of knowledge that I didn?t necessarily just have, so I think a guide with pictures is a good idea.

Sites I personally consider safe as Minecraft starting points:

• minecraft.net ? This is where you should download your actual standard minecraft game. And pay for it too! This is run by Mojang.
• Minecraft Forums ? This is where most of the pages about mods live. Run by Curse.com.
• Minecraft Wiki ? This is where you can get most standard information on Minecraft. As a Wiki it?s potentially more susceptible to hijacking by folks with suspicious intentions, but just be aware of it. Run by Curse.com.

Things to know:

• It?s almost all about minecraft.jar and specifically the exact minecraft.jar that the standard Minecraft client software is loading and running. See below for how to find that on your computer.
• Mods must be the same version as your Minecraft client. See discussion below for a screenshot of your client and where to look for the version number.
• When you allow the Minecraft client to update itself, it will overwrite your current version of the client?s minecraft.jar file with the newest version. This will wipe out any Mods you installed in the prior version (unless you made a backup) and make you do the installs all over again with the new, clean version it just downloaded. If you run multiple versions of Minecraft for different servers, it behooves you to make a backup of that clean version each time it?s downloaded (you have to explicitly allow this download, so you?ll know) and it also behooves you to back up the modded minecraft.jars you may make.
• Since you are modding your minecraft.jar file, you probably want to know where it lives. In OS X, it?s in your User home directory (Either /Users// or ~), then in the path, Library/Application\ Support/minecraft/bin. All put together, that?s ~/Library/Application\ Support/minecraft/bin. In Windows, it?s at %appdata%\.minecraft\bin. Go there to find minecraft.jar, which is the jar file your standard Minecraft client is running. See this article in the Minecraft Wiki for more info.
• Some Minecraft multiplayer servers consider some or all mods cheating and will kick you off if they know you?re using them. I?ll leave it up to you to find out what the rules are on each server and to figure out what you are willing to disclose to folks who run servers. I think it?s highly contextual. I follow the rules in the vast majority of cases. In cases where I diverge, I make sure that it?s harmless. By which I mean that if I do ?cheat?, I determine to the fullest extent I can that it isn?t hurting anyone. Not some bullshit ?Oh it?ll be fine? decision that?s dismissive and not really a decision at all.
• Some mods require additional infrastructure, like ModLoader or Forge, which are sort of basic Mods required to help reduce conflicts between multiple other Mods. Yes, that?s right, some Mods conflict with each other. While mod manager software like Magic Launcher can help manage and load mods without the traditional install which involves cracking open the minecraft.jar file and deleting some files and adding others, that unfortunately doesn?t apply with ModLoader, which needs the open-heart-surgery method to work. So you may as well just buckle down and learn how to do it. More discussion on how to do it or how to find out how to do it below.
• It is absolutely important that you keep backups (ideally, not in the same folder as the original) of the pristine minecraft.jar and that you also backup the .jar file after a successful modding. But if you absolutely screw up and don?t have any backups, never fear. You can either delete all the minecraft.jars and then start the standard client and it?ll download and install a new clean version of your minecraft.jar file or you can completely uninstall minecraft (back up your save files first!) and then reinstall from a download from minecraft.net.

Obtaining mods:
You can find a pretty comprehensive list of mods on the Minecraft Wiki. Some of these even link to the official Mod downloading pages on the http://www.minecraftforum.net/ pages. I also sometimes go to Google, and usually type the name of the mod (if I know it) and append ?minecraft?. So for Rei?s Minimap, I Google: ?rei?s minimap minecraft?. In the results I look for the link that start with the domain name ?http://www.minecraftforum.net?. And I click it.

Clicking the link takes me to the post. Don?t worry if the post was published before the version you have was possibly authored or published. Mod post authors usually go back to the original post whenever they first wrote the mod for whatever version of Minecraft it was back then and edit it with new version numbers and information and updates when they update the patch. That?s so it?s easy to find it when your Minecraft client updates.

It?s pretty easy to find your Minecraft Client or minecraft.jar version number. If you have a recently-downloaded Client (like you just installed for the first time recently), and you are reading this post today on the day it was published, then your client version is likely 1.3.2. If on the other hand you are running multiple versions of the client depending on what server you?re connected to, then you either have to keep track of the versions yourself, set up a mod and version manager (will talk about that later) or swap out the versions by hand. You can always tell what version you?re currently running by looking at the lower left corner of the main screen (before you select Single Player or Multiplayer play):

This is probably as good a time as any for me to say that I host the clean (you do have to trust me, though) version of each version of the minecraft.jar that I downloaded. For those of you who are geeky or paranoid, the MD5 hashes for these files may be found at the bottom of this post. As Minecraft updates I try to keep this directory (and the hashes below) updated. Feel free to nudge me at malcolm.gin@gmail.com if you like. Anyway, the hosting location for those jar files:
http://www.malcolmgin.com/mc/bin/

Okay. So, you now know what version your minecraft.jar is running. Go to the Mod page you loaded and look for the mod version that goes with the version your minecraft.jar is. I?m running 1.3.2, so the version of Rei?s Minimap I want is the 1.3.2 version:

Let?s take a sideways leap and talk about AdFly for a minute. AdFly is a file hosting ?solution? that is one of those seriously annoying, extremely advertised-up sites that will likely stick around for a while because those misleading, spammy Ads that are plastered everywhere generate a lot of mistaken clicks, and it?s designed to. Also it generates a little revenue for the file uploader. Reminds me of when the World Wide Web was first starting out! Anyway, with AdFly, you do not want the automatic download. The automatic download is not the file you are looking for. What you want to do instead is wait the 5 seconds it takes for the ?Skip Ad? button to show up in the upper right?:

Click that Skip Ad button and sometimes, like today, that?s enough. The download starts immediately after you click it. Other times, you?ll go to an extremely spammy page with the link that you want in very small and unassuming letters somewhere in the middle-right of the page. (I?ll try to capture if it I see it.) Just note the sort of key words for your intended download and look for a link that looks like that. For Rei?s Minimap this time, the filename was ?[1.3.2]ReiMinimap_v3.2_05.zip?. You?ll probably need to click the link or right-click and choose save-as. Your link will likely not automatically download.

Now you have your Mod and you know where your standard minecraft.jar file lives. Awesome! For mods that don?t require Modloader, I recommend giving Magic Launcher a try. It allows you to set up profiles that you choose on launch that load different versions of your minecraft.jar (this is where you can use your or my backups) and also loads other mods on top of each other. Except in the case of Modloader and mods that require it, Magic Launcher keeps you from having to crack open the minecraft.jar file and muddle around in there. Another cool thing Magic Launcher does is that it tells you when a mod you want to load (when you set up the profile) is not compatible or requires ModLoader or whatever. I?m not really inclined right now to write another tutorial (on top of this one on Mods) on Magic Launcher, but drop me a line if you can?t figure it out.

Let?s talk a little bit about the minecraft.jar cracking open and how to do it. Again, if you run any mods that require ModLoader (take this link and then look for ModLoader 1.3.2 in the post), you?ll need to do this to install ModLoader in your minecraft.jar file. For Windows, most tutorials you find will probably give you enough detail, but they?re crap for Mac OS X. I know from experience. Yes, I run OS X (Lion). In all cases, the basics are:

1. Realize that minecraft.jar is just a Java-y zip file. So rename to minecraft.zip (after making a BACKUP!).
2. Extract all the files in the structured archive somewhere with built-in OS tools or utilities for working with zip files.
3. Delete some key files. (Go to the ?META-INF? subfolder and delete both ?MOJANG_*? files.)
4. Extract your mod?s files into the extracted version of your minecraft.jar you just made. (You have to be careful here because when you extract files you can often be one level too high or one level too low in the directory structure. Mods will almost certainly replace at least one *.class file in the standard structure, so if you don?t get prompted to replace files, you?re doing it wrong. Start again.)
5. Do something (different with each OS) to remake the modified files into a minecraft.jar again, usually by way of minecraft.zip.

If you screw this up somehow (it?s easy! I did it a lot when I was starting out ? usually by forgetting to delete those key files), Minecraft will usually refuse to load (and hang at a black screen). Delete your crappy work, go back to your backups and start again.

So remember how I said that the open-heart-surgery mod installation methods were different for different operating systems? The ?tutorials? are almost always written for Windows and they?re usually crap. The one on the Minecraft Wiki? Crap. These things are usually written by script kiddies with no experience in technical writing, so they don?t write down anything that?s obvious to them. While I support this in general for the sake of brevity, I also know that script kiddies are frustratingly good at having almost everything be obvious to them. In the profession of technical writing, on the other hand, it?s important to know what?s ignorable and what isn?t, and these kids have a lot to learn.

Speaking of good technical writing and support, the Mac Support 101 thread on the Minecraft Forums, however, is golden. In particular, they have a whole, useful OS X friendly section on modding (be sure to click the ?Show Spoiler? button to show the screenshots that have a particular gem of info on how to recompress your files into the minecraft.jar file properly).

In Windows-land, it?s a little easier to find tutorials, but there?s still a lot of noise out there from poorly-written ones. This one?s the best one I?ve found and it?s long and confusing (like this post! Yay!). But at least it helps by giving advice for dealing with crashes.

So there you have it, my friends. Feel free to ask questions about things that aren?t clear.

MD5 Hashes for the jar files in the folder I linked above:
MD5 (minecraft10rel.jar) = 3820d222b95d0b8c520d9596a756a6e6
MD5 (minecraft11rel.jar) = e92302d2acdba7c97e0d8df1e10d2006
MD5 (minecraft125rel.jar) = 8e8778078a175a33603a585257f28563
MD5 (minecraft131rel.jar) = 266ccbc9798afd2eadf3d6c01b4c562a
MD5 (minecraft132rel.jar) = 969699f13e5bbe7f12e40ac4f32b7d9a
MD5 (minecraft18.jar) = f8c5a2ccd3bc996792bbe436d8cc08bc
MD5 (minecraft19p4.jar) = cae41f3746d3c4c440b2d63a403770e7

Source: http://www.malcolmgin.com/blog/2012/09/02/mods-and-minecraft/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mods-and-minecraft

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Improving Motivation - Tips on how to Place an Finish to ...

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EFT addresses quite a few complications - not just lack of motivation - ranging from anxiousness and emotional trauma, via to self-confidence and public speaking.

Founded by Gary Craig, applying adapted procedures of Dr Roger Callahan, it involved tapping distinct parts of one's physique together with your fingers.

The Sedona Method also assists having a wide variety of complications, enhancing your wellness and well-being, private relationships, peace and happiness, and wealth and results. Within a nutshell, it teaches you the way to let go or release undesirable thoughts, beliefs or feelings that happen to be of no use to you.

Source: http://religiona-z.blogspot.com/2012/09/improving-motivation-tips-on-how-to.html

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Mormons praise Romney for spotlighting the faith

WOLFEBORO, N.H. (AP) ? Republican Mitt Romney, the first Mormon presidential nominee of a major political party, sat in the Wolfeboro Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday as, one by one, members of his congregation credited him for bringing the faith more into the public eye.

"There has never been as much positive publicity about the church...thanks to the wonderful campaign of Mitt Romney and his family," J.W. "Bill" Marriott, the chairman of Marriott International, said. Marriott was the first in the congregation to take the podium to offer testimony ? examples of his own life experience and how it's affected his faith, a tradition on the first Sunday of every month in the Mormon church.

"Everybody is looking at us and saying, 'Are you as good as the Romneys?'" Marriott said. "Today we see the church coming out of obscurity, and we see that 90 percent of what has been written and said ... 90 percent of it has been favorable," he said. "And that's a great tribute to Mitt and Ann."

Many Americans have long viewed Mormonism skeptically, and the Salt Lake City-based church has fought for decades for recognition and acceptance as a faith.

In the eyes of Mormons gathered here Sunday, Romney winning the nomination has been overwhelmingly positive for their church.

"He's a marvelous ambassador of who we are," said a member of the Archibald family, another large Mormon clan that, like the Marriotts and the Romneys, vacations in Wolfeboro.

The Marriotts and Romneys are close friends; the hotel magnate is a major campaign donor and the candidate used to serve on the board of Marriott International.

Although Romney has long shied away from talking about a faith that has shaped his life, from his childhood to his college years as well as his marriage and business career. He occasionally has recounted his time counseling families who were struggling members of his Boston congregation. He usually doesn't touch on his two years serving as a missionary in France for the church. And he typically doesn't mention that he at one point rose to a rank equivalent to a bishop and presided over a group of congregations.

In recent weeks, Romney has started to open up about his faith and directly mentioned it during his Thursday night acceptance speech after members of his congregation took the convention stage to praise his work in the church. Said Romney that night: "We were Mormons and growing up in Michigan, that might have seemed unusual or out of place, but I really don't remember it that way. My friends cared more about what sports teams we followed than what church we went to."

Mormonism began in the mid-1800s when, according to believers, an angel presented another book of scripture to Joseph Smith, the church's founder, called the Book of Mormon. With 14.4 million members, the church is among the fastest growing in the world, supported by a full-time missionary force of about 55,000 young people.

At church Sunday, Marriott talked about the church's efforts over the years to explain its mission to Americans who don't understand the faith.

He recounted serving on a committee based in Salt Lake City with Romney's father, George Romney, and then later being featured in a "60 Minutes" piece on the Mormon Church. During the interview, Marriott said he was asked about the specific undergarments, which he described as a t-shirt and boxer shorts, that Mormons are encouraged to wear. He said he told interviewer Mike Wallace that he wore the garments, and about a time when he caught fire in a boating accident. His polyester pants burned, though his undershorts were untouched.

Marriott said he told Wallace: "These holy undergarments saved my life."

Later, another church member rose to offer an example of Romney's influence in publicizing the faith.

She recalled a time when she visited a sick church member in the hospital and a non-Mormon nurse asked her why they had come to visit a woman who wasn't a relative.

The woman said she told the nurse she was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

And the nurse, clearly recognizing the faith, responded: "Oh, Mitt! Oh, Mormon!"

Sitting in the pews, Ann Romney laughed.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mormons-praise-romney-spotlighting-faith-181621890--election.html

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Unexpected finding shows climate change complexities in soil

Friday, August 31, 2012

In a surprising finding, North Carolina State University researchers have shown that certain underground organisms thought to promote chemical interactions that make the soil a carbon sink actually play a more complex, dual role when atmospheric carbon levels rise.

In a paper published in the Aug. 31 edition of Science, North Carolina State University researchers show that important and common soil microscopic organisms, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), play a role in sequestering carbon below ground, trapping it from escaping into the atmosphere as a greenhouse gas.

Yet at the same time, the study shows, elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide also increase a number of underground decomposing interactions that cause carbon to be released back into the atmosphere as a greenhouse gas. This greenhouse gas release essentially offsets any carbon sink benefits, the researchers found.

AMF have a win-win relationship with plants. The fungi take carbon from plants and provide nitrogen and other useful soil nutrients that plants need in order to grow and develop. Present in the roots of about 80 percent of plants that grow on land, AMF help hold this carbon in the ground by putting the brakes on the decomposition of soil organic matter, which prevents the carbon in the decomposing material from escaping into the atmosphere as a greenhouse gas.

But in four independent experiments described in the paper, the researchers show that plants increase their demand for soil nitrogen in the form of ammonia when atmospheric carbon levels rise. Sensing this need, AMF spur other soil micro-organisms to help fill the plant's need for ammonia. To do so, soil micro-organisms decompose soil organic matter, which allows the carbon to escape into the atmosphere.

"We showed that the fungi previously thought to control carbon in the soil can increase carbon decomposition when atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are elevated," says Dr. Shuijin Hu, associate professor of plant pathology at NC State and the corresponding author of the paper. "But if we effectively manage the nitrogen transformation process in the soil, we have a chance to manage carbon sequestration in the soil."

The study was funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Drs. H. David Shew and Thomas Rufty co-authored the paper, as did Drs. Fitz Booker and Kent Burkey, who work at NC State and the USDA's Agriculture Research Service. The paper's first author is former NC State graduate student Lei Cheng; postdoctoral researchers Cong Tu and Lishi Zhou also co-authored the paper.

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North Carolina State University: http://www.ncsu.edu

Thanks to North Carolina State University for this article.

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Product Review Blogger Calls out Industry for Bogus Toy Reviews

NORTHAMPTON, MA?(Marketwire ? August 17, 2012) ? Dan Nessel has had enough, and he is not going to take it anymore.As a Dad Blogger who does product reviews, he is calling foul on the toy review industry that has become overrun with questionable ethics and shaky business practices.

Dan Nessel founded DadDoes.Com in 2010 as a place where parents could read honest product reviews on everything from food to toys. DadDoes.Com fully tests every product they review in a real world setting, a practice that Nessel believed was the standard for the online publishing industry. It turns out that numerous blogs and review sites actually base their reviews on press releases and never touch the products they review.

To me, it seems obvious: if you want to review a toy, the first step is to get the toy and play with it. Apparently, some sites see this step as unnecessary.Instead of actually playing with the toys that they review, they just write a review based on a press release that they receive. Perhaps this type of article is a preview, but I feel calling it a toy review is dishonest because the author never reviewed the toy, states Dan Nessel of DadDoes.Com.

Read The Report: Picking the Top Toys of 2012 And The Dying Art of Honest Toy Reviews

In a new report about the state of the toy review industry, DadDoes.Com outlines exactly why bloggers and sites no longer do hands-on toy reviews. According to DadDoes.com, the economics of news creation, publishing and blogging are pushing writers to create content as quickly as possible to increase ad views.

If a writer spends days doing hands-on testing with one toy, the publication only has that one toy review on which to sell ad space. On the other hand, if that same writer spends a day writing ten toy reviews based on ten press releases, the publication has ten times more space to fill with ads.

With the fourth quarter of 2012 fast approaching, numerous product review sites will start to create their top toys of 2012 lists.DadDoes.Com is warning consumers to be wary of toy review lists that have been created without the author ever using the toys. To help figure out which toy lists are based on real reviews, Nessel explains that parents should look for hands-on video toy reviews or photographs showing the author using the toys.

In their report on the toy review industry, Nessel and DadDoes.Com have publicly guaranteed that the site will never do toy reviews based on a press release. DadDoes.Com is now asking other bloggers and review sites to join them in a review pledge that simply states that all toy reviews will be based on the authors actual experience playing with the toy.

Nessel concludes, Everyone in the toy review industry needs to take responsibility and promise to do better. We owe it to hard-working parents to provide them with honest, real world toy reviews and not just reworded press releases. Our hope is that in exposing the problems of our industry, we will make it more fair, productive, helpful and ethical for everyone.

About Dad Does

Dad Does is the place where Dads Do Things and Review Things. Founded in September 2010 by Dan Nessel, DadDoes.Com has already become a destination dad blog for parents looking for brutally honest, informative, fun toy reviews and general product reviews. DadDoes.Com believes that parents care about more than just diapers and strollers ? they dont stop eating, drinking and playing just because they become parents. Parents do see things through a different lens, and DadDoes.Com looks to provide information on everything through that parent lens. Dad Does is based in Northampton, MA, and has been featured in numerous media outlets including Fox News, Grand Magazine, WABC-TV, The Republican, The Gazette and numerous radio shows.

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Oil prices rise ahead of Fed chief speech

BANGKOK (AP) ? Oil prices rose Friday as traders looked to a speech by Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke that might signal more help for the struggling U.S. economic recovery.

Benchmark crude for October delivery rose 2 cents in midday Bangkok time to $94.64 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 87 cents to finish at $94.62 on the Nymex on Thursday.

Investors will be listening to Bernanke's speech at an economic conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming later Friday for hints of additional steps to spur borrowing and spending in the U.S.

They are also anticipating the release of manufacturing data out of China this weekend. Worse-than-expected numbers could put pressure on Beijing for more stimulus measures to help revive growth in the world's No. 2 economy.

In other energy futures trading, heating oil rose less than a penny to $3.138 per gallon. Natural gas rose less than 1 cent to $2.754 per 1,000 cubic feet.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/oil-prices-rise-ahead-fed-chief-speech-052404706--finance.html

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LeAnn Rimes Suffers Emotional Breakdown; Lawyer Decries "Merciless, Vitriolic" Cyber-Bullying

We just learned that LeAnn Rimes is in treatment for anxiety and stress a few hours ago, but apparently it was a long time coming for the country star.

She was, and is, embroiled in a battle that is draining her emotionally.

No, not against Brandi Glanville. LeAnn Rimes feels she has become a victim of severe bullying online and is trying to turn the tables on her detractors.

The 30-year-old has accumulated a ton of offensive Tweets written about her, among a circle of private individuals and is exploring her legal options.

"There has been this cyber-bullying that has been going on for a considerable period of time," her lawyer Larry Stein told Celebuzz in an interview.

"Apparently, most of this started when LeAnn started dating Eddie Cibrian," he said. "These women have been merciless ... vitriolic in their attacks."

"They don't understand who she is or who she stands for." 

Why LeAnn simply doesn't delete her Twitter or stop reading the @ mentions is an open question, but as for the bullies, these Twitter users are no joke.

There is an actual @blockedbyleann Twitter handle, which calls itself the "official #blockedbyleann fan club" and tracks Rimes' "imminent meltdown."

There's also the Curious Case of LeAnn Rimes blog (lunaticleannrimes on blogspot) and Rumors are flying that a Twitter feud pushed Rimes over the edge.

LeAnn came under heavy scrutiny when she and Eddie Cibrian - both married at the time - had an affair that ultimately led to their own marriage last year.

She and Brandi have feuded publicly on Twitter, and she's battled critics of her actions and body image on a regular basis over the past two years.

While there have been rumors that Eddie cheated and triggered her downward spiral, the more credible reports say she suffered an emotional breakdown.

Her attorney's corroboration of the bullying accusations certainly suggests that played a role as well, even if the specifics are hard to come by.

Some may say she brought it upon herself with infidelity and then engaging with haters on Twitter; others may see Rimes as a victim of truly ruthless individuals and unable to fully escape the backlash due to her celebrity. Both arguments have merit.

What exactly prompted her to check into a treatment facility is probably something only LeAnn knows, but hopefully it's a positive experience for her.

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Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/08/leann-rimes-suffers-emotional-breakdown-lawyer-decries-merciless/

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