JSON is just a glorified text file. If your using Eclipse you can install a JSON plugin or you can install some other text editor. I suggest Sublime Text as it has amazing text highlighting and even some syntax highlighting. It’s very intuitive and built for programmers and I’ve never had a single issue with it. 

You can’t use your IDEs export jar functionality because Minecraft is obfuscated. As you’ve found out, you always have to use forge gradle’s build function.

Don’t use IHasModel (or something similar I.e. ItemModelProvider). Nothing to do with model registration requires private/protected access. You can register all your models in 3 lines of code. Also don’t implement it on a Block. Also interface names should start with “I”.

 

Did you try looking at the vanilla hay blockstate?

It’s not recommended or supported to downgrade versions, and your trying to load it with Forge, I don’t think your going to have any luck. Why are you doing this though?

Trigger it from you entities AI task

2 hours ago, jabelar said:

If you look at the EntityAIAttackMelee class you can see what I mean. In that class, in the update() method the entity will try to close the distance to the target and then it runs the checkAndPerformAttack() method. In that method, if the distance is close enough it will perform the attack which includes the vanilla swingArm() method for the animation which updates the progress of the animation and also sends a packet to the client tracking system.

Do your attack logic on the server, then call swingArm (or your own similar method) to fire the animation

Its program arguments, it doesn't matter wether its Eclipse or IntelliJ.

Heres a link for IntelliJ Run configurations though

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/creating-and-editing-run-debug-configurations.html

Yeah thats the log I wanted, but its not the complete log. Also, 

1 hour ago, Cadiboo said:

Is it just the flans mod weapons that aren’t working properly?

 

Your trying to open a 1.13.1 (vanilla) map with 1.12.2 (Forge)?

Is it just the flans mod weapons that aren’t working properly? Can you please post your logs as described in my signature (the text below each of my posts)

1 hour ago, V0idWa1k3r said:

go around this method and use events to render an IBakedModel

Thats what I was suggesting

1 hour ago, V0idWa1k3r said:

you will have a nightmare trying to animate parts of it (you can't split the model into parts because the item needs to be a single model obviously and armor parts are rotated differently).

The jetpack model doesn't have any moving parts, just 2 variants.

Point taken though

2 hours ago, V0idWa1k3r said:

It can't work just fine because it's syntax is invalid. Stone has subtypes and uses metadata to differentiate between variants and as such a data property must be specified in the ingredient. You are not specifying one.

https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Recipe#JSON_format

you need to add

"data": metadata

underneath

"item": "minecraft:stone"

and make sure your JSON is valid (add a , after minecraft:stone")

I don't think that the jetpack model has many (if any) moving parts so you can just use the JSON in the armor model I believe. 

Are you using the correct blend factors?

Define when they spawn. Every time they respawn? Every time they join the world? The first time they ever join the world? If it is the latter, make a capability that stores if the player has already gotten the item and subscribe to the onEntityJoinWorld event. In that event give the player the item and set the capability storing if they’ve gotten the item to true

Something like if( state == Blocks.SAND.getDefaultState().withProperty( whateverPropertySandHasThatCausesItToBeRed, whateverValueMakesSandBeRed)) //I’m a red sand block!

if(event.getState().getBlock() == Blocks.SAND.getStateFromMeta(1)) {

Block != IBlockState. ever

30 minutes ago, Trhod177 said:

event.getDrops().remove(1);

How do you know there are 2 items in the list. how do you even know that the list isnt empty?

 

31 minutes ago, Trhod177 said:

@Mod.EventBusSubscriber

Static subscriber annotation but 

 

32 minutes ago, Trhod177 said:

@SubscribeEvent public void onHarvestBlock(BlockEvent.HarvestDropsEvent event)

non-static subscriber methods?? why??

13 hours ago, Animefan8888 said:

When your mod is compiled it doesnt just stay as extends Item or new ItemStack it is translated into the obfuscated names. Which is why using an IDEs built in compiler doesnt work, you have to use gradle.

Actually you may have a point, I think (I could be wrong) that 1.13 Forge is not going to do runtime deobfuscation so no more SRG names?

I don't think you can easily change the color of a baked quad. The color for rendering quads is gotten by calling Minecraft.getMinecraft().getItemColors().colorMultiplier(stack, bakedquad.getTintIndex()); (colorMultiplier has been renamed to getColorFromItemstack) in RenderItem.func_191970_a (func_191970_a has been renamed to renderQuads). The only way that I can think of to recolour quads would be to modify this method or modify ItemColors to return a different color somehow.

You can however really easily render baked quads with a different color as I showed in my previous post.

Actually I think we skipped the important thing, it’s pretty much no trouble to port a mod between versions if your code is easily readable and understandable. 

The colour is a special integer. Try doing

primeList = colorQuads(primeList, -0x445B75 | 0x1000000);

I'm pretty sure you construct the colour integer something like this

int colour = -(invertedRGBInteger) | 0x1000000

where invertedRGBInteger is a normal RGB colour integer except the colour scale is inverted (0x000000 is white not black). I think this is right, I’m going off my memory and this code that I wrote a while ago. I’ll go do some testing and post a more helpful answer

 

Edit: I have no clue how the you use the color, I'm going to work backwards from ForgeHooksClient.putQuadColor which appears to be where the magic happens

 

Edit: I'm stupid, the color includes alpha (the alpha value is either transparent or solid, no in-between)

int colorRGBA = 0;

colorRGBA |= 0x00 << 16;// r

colorRGBA |= 0xFF << 8; // g

colorRGBA |= 0x00 << 0; // b

colorRGBA |= 0xFF << 24;// a

renderQuadsColor(bufferbuilder, quads, colorRGBA);

Did you register it?

10 minutes ago, Cadiboo said:

horizontal facing (this uses up 4 values)

Look at log blocks

10 hours ago, Soup said:

How would i go about reading the last chat message and check if it contains a certain character/phrase.

Using Forge I believe that there’s a hook that you can subscribe to and do your logic

Do you know java? You should make an entity that extends zombie and just overrides whatever makes it burn, and register it to the entity registry to override vanilla zombies

1 hour ago, falaRonaldo said:

Let me get this straight. if I have an electric oven, it has 100 energy in it, if I take it off the ground and with metadata I could leave it saved on the item that it has 100 energy stored and at the time I put it on the floor I get the metadata of the item and see how much energy it has to put into the machine? would this be an example of a use for metadata?

Metadata has a maximum of 16 possible values. 100 > 16 so you can’t use metadata. Also I assume your machine will have horizontal facing (this uses up 4 values). You can use a tile entity for saving energy (saved in the world with NBT) and when you break it store the energy it the itemstacks nbt or attach an energy capability to it