ModLoader Modding Help Needed

[atueerd2]

Hey everyone, I'm new to this forum, and pretty bummed out that my first post has to be a "HELP ME!" type of thing. Anyway, I'm editing Minecraft Coder Pack with ModLoader (in Java, obviously), but no matter what I do, i keep getting this error:

== MCP 7.23 (data: 7.23, client: 1.4.5, server: 1.4.5) ==
# found ff, ff patches, srgs, name csvs, doc csvs, param csvs, renumber csv, ast
yle, astyle config
== Recompiling client ==
> Cleaning bin
> Recompiling
'"C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_09\bin\javac" -Xlint:-options -deprecatio
n -g -source 1.6 -tar...' failed : 1

== ERRORS FOUND ==

src\minecraft\net\minecraft\src\mod_SaltCraft.java:29: error: cannot find symbol

   public static final block salt;
                       ^

  symbol:   class block
  location: class mod_SaltCraft
src\minecraft\net\minecraft\src\mod_SaltCraft.java:10: error: mod_SaltCraft is n
ot abstract and does not override abstract method getVersion() in BaseMod
public class mod_SaltCraft extends BaseMod
       ^

src\minecraft\net\minecraft\src\mod_SaltCraft.java:34: error: cannot find symbol

      salt = (new Block(200, 0, Material.rock)).setHardness(1.1F).setResistance(
10F).setBlockName("salt");
                                        ^

  symbol:   variable rock
  location: class Material
src\minecraft\net\minecraft\src\mod_SaltCraft.java:34: error: cannot find symbol

      salt = (new Block(200, 0, Material.rock)).setHardness(1.1F).setResistance(
10F).setBlockName("salt");
                                               ^

  symbol:   method setHardness(float)
  location: class Block
4 errors

Here's the source file I made (called mod_SaltCraft.java).

package net.minecraft.src;

//SaltCraft class
public class mod_SaltCraft extends BaseMod
{
   public mod_SaltCraft()
   {
      ModLoader.registerBlock( salt );
      //Future Debug- Change to ( salt, "Salt")
      ModLoader.addName( salt, "Salt");
      salt.blockIndexInTexture = ModLoader.addOverride( "/terrain.png", "/salt_texture.png" );
   }

   public String Version()
   {
      return "1.4.5";
   }

   public void load()
   {
   }

   public static final block salt;

   static
   {
      //Future debug- delete ".setStepSound(Block.soundStoneFootstep)"
      salt = (new Block(200, 0, Material.rock)).setHardness(1.1F).setResistance(10F).setBlockName("salt");
   }
}

Please help. Java isn't my choice of language, so it'll probably be some stupid syntax thing, but still... HELP!

[343N]

To be honest you should just switch to Forge since modloader is hardly used anymore

[atueerd2]

Thank you for that, I will remember to learn to use Forge. However, does anybody know how to fix this problem? It's really been nagging at me and I'd like to finish this mod. Thanks.