Ok so again I preface this with I am an amateur at JAVA coding, and all I know is from youtube tutorials. Now I am trying to make a custom tool (axe, pickaxe, hoe, shovel, sword) but I am wanting to be able to add to them a hand wrap that can be enchanted, the idea is I want a tool that I can upgrade with an enchanted mod, giving the tool the enchantments, but only making the handwrap glow like enchanted tools do. I am making custom recipes and crafting blocks for the assembly of parts into the full item, the handwrap is one of those parts, and the enchantment should be able to follow from initial crafting to finished crafting, I am still trying to figure out how to make the custom recipes and crafting blocks, but in the meantime I am putting standard recipes in place to make sure that the combination of items works along with the enchantments.I have been able to add each part into minecraft, and the textures work on the full item, still working on the recipes and how to make the item and also hopefully not fill up my creative tabs with every single variant of each tool, I currently have 12 head materials for each tool, 3 handwrap materials and 2 handle materials that are used in the creation of the items.
I know this may seem like alot for a complete and utter noob to try and create, but I have an idea of a rather immersive mod, and im just trying to get the basics down, but with little to no JAVA knowledge(yes bad on me) I am relying on what I can put together from various youtube tutorials as well as ones I find online. so far my mod has several many features working, including biomes, structures, blocks and variants, tools and variants, tree gen, ore gen, im still learning tile entities and inventories, my next feature is a way to give an effect while wearing a full suit of armor with an inventory in the chest to allow 1 of 2 different effects depending on the item in the chest. but I think I have babbled enough, any assistance on how to get started on the items with upgrades I would greatly appreciate it.