Hello friends :D, if you have ever wondered I wonder how those awesome coder guys make their minecraft mods then you have come to the right place. This blog will cover the basic's of setting up a minecraft 1.7.2 mod and stuff YAY, my next one will cover some basic but very important stuff and also how to create basic blocks.




The first thing you want to do is make sure you have the latest Java JDK installed im using jre 7, if no head over to this website and download and install it. 

Allright now that you have got that done we need to fiddle around with some Inviroment Varibles, don't worry aslong as you follow these instructions you will not do any damage to your computer. 

1. Start up a new File Explorer window (im using windows 8 for win 7 users just click on start then right click on computer then properties), right click on properties you should see a window like this: 



2. Click on Advanced System Settings.

3. A small window should pop up, near the bottom will be a button saying Inviroment Variables, and guess what you click it!
 
4. Under User Varbibles for -your username- you should see a PATH varible, click on it and then click edit, another small window should pop up, scroll right to the end and when you get there your going to want to slap this on the end: ;C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin.

5. TESTING YAY! Now we to test whether or not you have followed my steps correctly :D. Press start + r and in the dialog box that opens type in cmd then press enter. IF you see something like this then you have done it correctly:

Usage: javac <options> <source files>
where possible options include:
-g Generate all debugging info
-g:none Generate no debugging info
-g:{lines,vars,source} Generate only some debugging info
-nowarn Generate no warnings
-verbose Output messages about what the compiler is doing
-deprecation Output source locations where deprecated APIs are u
sed
-classpath <path> Specify where to find user class files and annotati
on processors
-cp <path> Specify where to find user class files and annotati
on processors
-sourcepath <path> Specify where to find input source files
-bootclasspath <path> Override location of bootstrap class files
-extdirs <dirs> Override location of installed extensions
-endorseddirs <dirs> Override location of endorsed standards path
-proc:{none,only} Control whether annotation processing and/or compil
ation is done.
-processor <class1>[,<class2>,<class3>...]Names of the annotation processors t
o run; bypasses default discovery process
-processorpath <path> Specify where to find annotation processors
-d <directory> Specify where to place generated class files
-s <directory> Specify where to place generated source files
-implicit:{none,class} Specify whether or not to generate class files for
implicitly referenced files
-encoding <encoding> Specify character encoding used by source files
-source <release> Provide source compatibility with specified release

-target <release> Generate class files for specific VM version
-version Version information
-help Print a synopsis of standard options
-Akey[=value] Options to pass to annotation processors
-X Print a synopsis of nonstandard options
-J<flag> Pass <flag> directly to the runtime system

Are you seeing that, you are, good for you now we can get on with setting up eclipse with all the lovely modding stuff (forge) :D