I am new to the forge community and, of course, am working on my own mod contribution.
It is necessary that I take advantage of piling blocks into a single ID via metadata, but I cannot seem to find a working 1.5.1 tutorial on the matter.
I've managed textured custom blocks in the world, but I am getting really turned around trying to translate 1.4.7 tutorials into working 1.5.1 code when half of it appears depreciated. Searching the javadoc didn't net any useful knowledge to me and searching the forums yielded a variety of item but not block examples in 1.5.1.
Any assistance is appreciated, even if it is but a link to an up to date tutorial I've missed over the past 4 hours or guidance to a particular bit of code I should focus on working with inside forge/MC.