Getting Started With Minecraft Plugin Development With Bukkit

Recently, I decided to hold a series of workshops about Java development at the CoderDojo Linz. As lots of kids and teens there enjoy playing Minecraft, it was a straightforward decision to choose Minecraft plugin development as the topic for these workshops. As I never played Minecraft before, I wanted to get to know the game first. My plan to play for 2 or 3 hours to learn the basics escalated rather quickly and I ended up not being productive for a week. Well, probably I could have anticipated that. Anyway, now I'm back and in the following section, I summarized some basics about Minecraft plugin development with Bukkit. Please note that this guide assumes, that you are already familiar with Java. If you are new to Java, I'd recommend getting to know Java first. Here you can find some great resources to learn it.