Contributions

You will be working with Minecraft Forge so it is necessary that you understand the basic aspects of Minecraft Forge if not complex mod loading mechanisms. Understanding the basic concepts of mod making will also be very useful in learning low level concepts within Forge. Check out their documentation.

Requirements

The codebase is developed in Java. Most other language providers write in their respective languages, but pyforge is not written in Python. Python to Java porting demands boilerplate code and it is unnecessary in the perspective of the library. The class loader is written in Java along with everything else; so we implement things in Jython only when it is in necessity. Generally writing things in Java helps the process of interpolating with the core Forge mod loading systems as they too are written in Java.

In any case, we will be juggling with the concepts in all three languages:

1. Java
2. Python
3. Jython

Setup

In summary;

1. Install a JDK
2. Obtain an MDK from Forge
3. Extract the MDK to an folder and pick out necessary files for mod development, namely; build.gradle, gradlew.bat, gradlew and the gradle folder.
4. Move files listed above to a new folder. (this will be your mod projects folder)
5. Choose an IDE and load as Gradle project
6. Generating IDE Launch/Run Configurations with ForgeGradle

See here for more information.