A program is a set of instructions to be fed to the CPU. hexxingĪny executale is, of course, just a file, and a file is just a bunch of bytes.

So I switched back to contemplating altering the engine code itself. The mod’ing hook felt heavy to me, particularly because I wanted to make such a small change. My first go at it was classic mod’ing, using Forge. Thus, I set about my first attempt at hacking Minecraft. … And if I could locate that spot in the code, then I could change it, and not worry nearly so much about those damn pesky creepers! … And if that’s the case, then that definition could be changed to make creepers less powerful. … And if that’s the case, then the definition of a creeper must supply some value to that general functionality. So, programmer that I am, I got to thinking: I wonder how the explosive power of a creeper is controlled? There are other things that explode, such as TNT and ghast fireballs, and charged creepers are even more explosive, so it would only be natural for the game engine to have a general explosion functionality, with inputs for the size / power of the explosion. But for me, I play Survival for the foothold-and-sustainability challenge. There are certainly in-game ways around this, and some people play Minecraft for it’s combat-oriented challenges. Or, occupied by fighting another mob who has your full attention because, well, it’s trying to kill you, the same thing can happen. Likely, your crops, or fence, or cow, or all three, are gone, too. If you happen to stay up just a little past sundown, the next morning you can be minding your own business, tending your garden or breeding your livestock … and ssss-BOOM! a creeper, unannounced (they creep, after all) explodes right behind you, and you are dead. I find Minecraft’s creepers annoying, and unbalanced. View the Project on GitHub Hacking Minecraft Chapter 0x01 - Tools and Methods How I Learned to Loath the Creeper-Bomb A blog and utilities for exploring Java bytecode engineering with Minecraft

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