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@@ -5,3 +5,29 @@ A minecraft 'hacked' client in the form of a forge mod.
 See [forgehax](https://github.com/fr1kin/forgehax) for a more polished equivalent. Some features in KAMI may be based on those of forgehax, as I sometimes used it as reference.
 
 This is by no means a finished project and isn't fully ready for release.
+
+## Contributing
+
+You are free to clone, modify KAMI and make pull requests as you wish. To set up your development environment, make use of the following commands:
+
+```
+git clone https://github.com/zeroeightysix/KAMI/
+cd KAMI
+```
+
+On linux, run `chmod +x gradlew` and for the following commands use `./gradlew` instead of `./gradlew.bat`
+
+```
+./gradlew.bat setupDecompWorkspace
+```
+Import KAMI into your IDE of choice. If you use intelliJ, import from the `build.gradle` file and run `./gradlew.bat genIntellijRuns`
+
+If you do not wish to run from an IDE, use './gradlew.bat runClient` to run KAMI.
+
+### Building
+
+```
+./gradlew.bat build
+cd build/libs
+```
+In `build/libs` you will find the `.jar` file which you can copy to the `mods` folder of a minecraft instance that has forge installed.