Execution failed for task ':compileJava'. - Issue 3 in this series

Question

Before this question gets closed for already being asked, as far as I can see it is a vague and common error so this is different from other questions.

I fixed the error in my previous post by installing a slightly different version of Forge, but have now reached Step 5 of this tutorial . When I use.\gradlew build with the example mod, everything seems to work fine (although I cannot find the console output) But when I edit the mod to how the author describes, I get many errors.

The example mod:

package com.example.examplemod;

import net.minecraft.init.Blocks;
import cpw.mods.fml.common.Mod;
import cpw.mods.fml.common.Mod.EventHandler;
import cpw.mods.fml.common.event.FMLInitializationEvent;

@Mod(modid = ExampleMod.MODID, version = ExampleMod.VERSION)
public class ExampleMod
{
    public static final String MODID = "examplemod";
    public static final String VERSION = "1.0";

    @EventHandler
    public void init(FMLInitializationEvent event)
    {
        // some example code
        System.out.println("DIRT BLOCK >> "+Blocks.dirt.getUnlocalizedName());
    }
}

How I changed it, following the tutorial:

package com.example.examplemod;

import net.minecraft.init.Blocks;
import cpw.mods.fml.common.Mod;
import cpw.mods.fml.common.Mod.EventHandler;
import cpw.mods.fml.common.event.FMLInitializationEvent;

@Mod(modid = ExampleMod.MODID, version = ExampleMod.VERSION)
public class ExampleMod
{
    public static final String MODID = "examplemod";
    public static final String VERSION = "1.1";

    @EventHandler
    public void init(FMLInitializationEvent event)
    {
        Block amethystOre = new ModBlock(Material.rock, "amethystOre");
        GameRegistry.registerBlock(amethystOre, "amethystOre");
    }

    private class ModBlock extends Block
    {
        public ModBlock(Material material, String blockName)
        {
            super(material);
            this.setBlockName(blockName);
            this.setBlockTextureName(MODID + ":" + blockName);
            this.setCreativeTab(CreativeTabs.tabBlock);
        }
    }

}

When I run.\gradlew build, I get:

#################################################
         ForgeGradle 1.2-SNAPSHOT-fb514d3
  https://github.com/MinecraftForge/ForgeGradle
#################################################
               Powered by MCP unknown
             http://modcoderpack.com
         by: Searge, ProfMobius, Fesh0r,
         R4wk, ZeuX, IngisKahn, bspkrs
#################################################
:compileApiJava UP-TO-DATE
:processApiResources UP-TO-DATE
:apiClasses UP-TO-DATE
:sourceMainJava UP-TO-DATE
:compileJava
warning: [options] bootstrap class path not set in conjunction with -source 1.6
C:\Users\benji\MinecraftWorkspace\forge-1.7.10-10.13.4.1558-1.7.10-src\build\sources\java\com\example\examplemod\ExampleMod.java:21: error: cannot find symbol
    private class ModBlock extends Block
                                   ^
  symbol:   class Block
  location: class ExampleMod
C:\Users\benji\MinecraftWorkspace\forge-1.7.10-10.13.4.1558-1.7.10-src\build\sources\java\com\example\examplemod\ExampleMod.java:23: error: cannot find symbol
        public ModBlock(Material material, String blockName)
                        ^
  symbol:   class Material
  location: class ExampleMod.ModBlock
C:\Users\benji\MinecraftWorkspace\forge-1.7.10-10.13.4.1558-1.7.10-src\build\sources\java\com\example\examplemod\ExampleMod.java:17: error: cannot find symbol
        Block amethystOre = new ModBlock(Material.rock, "amethystOre");
        ^
  symbol:   class Block
  location: class ExampleMod
C:\Users\benji\MinecraftWorkspace\forge-1.7.10-10.13.4.1558-1.7.10-src\build\sources\java\com\example\examplemod\ExampleMod.java:17: error: cannot find symbol
        Block amethystOre = new ModBlock(Material.rock, "amethystOre");
                                         ^
  symbol:   variable Material
  location: class ExampleMod
C:\Users\benji\MinecraftWorkspace\forge-1.7.10-10.13.4.1558-1.7.10-src\build\sources\java\com\example\examplemod\ExampleMod.java:18: error: cannot find symbol
        GameRegistry.registerBlock(amethystOre, "amethystOre");
        ^
  symbol:   variable GameRegistry
  location: class ExampleMod
C:\Users\benji\MinecraftWorkspace\forge-1.7.10-10.13.4.1558-1.7.10-src\build\sources\java\com\example\examplemod\ExampleMod.java:26: error: cannot find symbol
            this.setBlockName(blockName);
                ^
  symbol: method setBlockName(String)
C:\Users\benji\MinecraftWorkspace\forge-1.7.10-10.13.4.1558-1.7.10-src\build\sources\java\com\example\examplemod\ExampleMod.java:27: error: cannot find symbol
            this.setBlockTextureName(MODID + ":" + blockName);
                ^
  symbol: method setBlockTextureName(String)
C:\Users\benji\MinecraftWorkspace\forge-1.7.10-10.13.4.1558-1.7.10-src\build\sources\java\com\example\examplemod\ExampleMod.java:28: error: cannot find symbol
            this.setCreativeTab(CreativeTabs.tabBlock);
                                ^
  symbol:   variable CreativeTabs
  location: class ExampleMod.ModBlock
8 errors
1 warning
:compileJava FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':compileJava'.
> Compilation failed; see the compiler error output for details.

I don't know a whole lot about Java (I just started learning it) but I would assume that copying the tutorial character-for-character should result in an error-free program. Apparently not.

Looking at the error output on the compiler, the first error is 'The import net cannot be resolved' (line 3) I don't know why though.

Any help is much appreciated, Ben

Answer 1

(From comment)

Import are wrong. You should use net.minecraft.* not net.minecraft.init.* :

import net.minecraft.block.Block;
import net.minecraft.block.material.Material;