Looking for Utopian contributers for the Minecolonies Minecraft mod

Hey folks,

I am looking for contributors to Minecolonies.

What is Minecolonies?

MineColonies is a town building mod that allows you to create your own thriving Colony within Minecraft! With features including many NPC workers, buildings, a fantastic building tool and a robust permissions system in multiplayer, you can have the Colony of your dreams!

How can I help?

• We are always looking for java coders who help us develop the mod and add more features to it
• We are in dire need of documentation. We have a wiki but we could use tutorials and developer documentation
• We need Videos. If you have a minecraft channel, make a showcase of the mod, giving an intreduction tutorial to it
• We need Artwork. We have awesome people on the team who design custom blocks and interfaces for us and we need more of them to make the mod truly beautiful
• We need buildings. Get in the game and build a theme in a style that is missing. If your theme is high quality, we can add it.
• We need translations. We have a few languages already and we need more. And some languages are only 80% complete. We are currently talking with babelfish here.

Why this call?

I was applying for the new utopian sponsorship and they do not accept projects that have no contribution yet. So once we got our first utopian contributions, I will reapply and donate to the project myself.

How to start?

Get in touch. You can find our platforms on our website or visit our github page or our utopian page. Translations through crowdin are very welcome.

There are many open issues and lots of work to do. And if you need any help getting started, just ask and our team can help you set up. Please communicate when you plan to do something, so we can plan it in.

To start developing, start by reading our README, where you see how to set up your workspace. You can fork the repo or get in touch so we give you write-access to a specific branch.

There are many issues that need help. Most bug reports are hard to spot or evaluate, so a lot of work goes into talking with the reporter and reproducing the issue. Some bugs are edge cases in minecraft when concurrency is involved or other mods misbehave. There are alse features like adding a new citizen to the mod. We try to label all issues and use a help wanted tag for good first issues that don't neet too much experience with the project.

Once you fixed the issue, you open up a pull request and at least two maintainers will review it and give you feedback. We also use automated reporting software so you get some feedback on code quality too. Once it is all done, we will merhe your pull request and ask you to port it to other verniosn of minecraft.

An example of a good contribution: https://utopian.io/utopian-io/@raycoms/minecolonies-and-nametags
You notice all three pull requests are attached (one for 1.10, one for 1.11 and one for 1.12).

Until our sponsor application is through I will support the project with upvotes. So helping us out can be really profitable :)

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