Forge Project Setup

src/main/java/com/example/examplemod/ExampleMod.java

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+package com.example.examplemod;
+
+import net.minecraft.init.Blocks;
+import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.Mod;
+import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.Mod.EventHandler;
+import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.event.FMLInitializationEvent;
+import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.event.FMLPreInitializationEvent;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
+
+@Mod(modid = ExampleMod.MODID, name = ExampleMod.NAME, version = ExampleMod.VERSION)
+public class ExampleMod
+{
+    public static final String MODID = "examplemod";
+    public static final String NAME = "Example Mod";
+    public static final String VERSION = "1.0";
+
+    private static Logger logger;
+
+    @EventHandler
+    public void preInit(FMLPreInitializationEvent event)
+    {
+        logger = event.getModLog();
+    }
+
+    @EventHandler
+    public void init(FMLInitializationEvent event)
+    {
+        // some example code
+        logger.info("DIRT BLOCK >> {}", Blocks.DIRT.getRegistryName());
+    }
+}

src/main/resources/mcmod.info

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+[
+{
+  "modid": "examplemod",
+  "name": "Example Mod",
+  "description": "Example placeholder mod.",
+  "version": "${version}",
+  "mcversion": "${mcversion}",
+  "url": "",
+  "updateUrl": "",
+  "authorList": ["ExampleDude"],
+  "credits": "The Forge and FML guys, for making this example",
+  "logoFile": "",
+  "screenshots": [],
+  "dependencies": []
+}
+]

src/main/resources/pack.mcmeta

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+{
+    "pack": {
+        "description": "examplemod resources",
+        "pack_format": 3,
+        "_comment": "A pack_format of 3 should be used starting with Minecraft 1.11. All resources, including language files, should be lowercase (eg: en_us.lang). A pack_format of 2 will load your mod resources with LegacyV2Adapter, which requires language files to have uppercase letters (eg: en_US.lang)."
+    }
+}