Jeb's Minecraft API slides from Minecon 2012

At Minecon 2012 in November there was a session on The Future of the plugin API. The session opened with a presentation by Jens Bergensten (Jeb) which consisted of ten slides. Below are the text of the slides.

Slide 1

• Minecraft Plugin API
• Scope and Development

Slide 2

• What is a Plugin?
• It's a file package in your game folder
• It has unique information that identifies it
• It's loaded with your world
• It's listed in server information
• It adds or removes functionality

Slide 3

• Where Do You Get Plugins?
• Download from the web manually
• Download from the Minecraft repository

Slide 4

• How Do You Use Plugins?
• Edit plugin settings per world
• Upgrade plugin versions
• Changing plugins may require world file conversion

Slide 5

• Plugins in Multiplayer
• Defined in property files
• Connecting players must have either pre-installed the plugin, or will download it from the repository

Slide 6

• Developing a Plugin
• In Java, implementing API interfaces
• Details still unclear!

Slide 7

• Publishing a Plugin
• "Publishing" means "putting in central repository"
• Administration page on dev.minecraft.net
• Upload updates and changelogs
• Not possible to remove updates, so do your own snapshots and pre-releases! =)

Slide 8

• Making Money?
• Not via the repository or the game
• Your own site or via YouTube etc, as it is now
• Minecraft plugins are not exclusive (read Jeb's comments)

Slide 9

• Development Plan
• First step is to make Minecraft flexible
• Enable Plugin loading
• Do the rest of the API...
• Step by step, make vanilla a plugin

Slide 10

• Movie Time!

You'll have to watch the presentation to see the short video that was shown.

Following Jeb's talk there was a Q&A session with questions handled by the entire panel of Jeb, Nathan Adams (Dinnerbone), Warren Loo (EvilSeph), and Erik Broes (Grum).