Thread:SamwiseFilmore/@comment-28826152-20170217193950/@comment-25330335-20170217205730

@Sinth - Writing a program without using anything other than the standard libs, as opposed to an API, like Forge.

If you want to learn to make a minecraft mod, you need to learn how to code. No way around it. I suggested D because I have experience with that book, and it is very good. If you want to learn a language other than Java (which I also recommend if you want to go into modding, although I have no java experience), learn python. It has much simpler syntax than some languages, but the concepts are the same, and will apply themselves fairly well to java.