I'm assuming you have some proficiency with your operating system, so I won't go into details about how to adapt those commands to your system. I'm also developing on OS X, so some of the commands will be a little different if you're on Linux or Windows. clojure or if you're feeling masochistic, Java). I'll be using Scala for this guide, but it should be fairly easy to adapt these instructions to any JVM language (e.g. I'm documenting here the steps I went through to get started, in the hopes of helping the next person have an easier time of it. If you visit their website, you'll be greeted abruptly by a mysterious message at the top of an SMF forum, with no clear path towards actually.
Minecraft mods, especially mods which change the client, are by and large written with Forge.
