Draco18s

I'm not sure why you think doing random stuff in Forge would be different. Unless you have something specific in mind?

We know. Which is why there's a post about what versions Forge supports.

1.8.9 is four years old. Update.

Have you tried looking at the implementations? There's literally one method that IExtensibleEnum dictates that matters and its very obviously named.

Have you looked at how vanilla does it?

Also, your names aren't all lower case. setup(new Item(new Item.Properties()),"IronPickaxe"), Also, do you really need to add a new iron pickaxe item to Minecraft? We already have one. And mushrooms, torches, dirt blocks, various swords, axes, ores, arrows, chests... Edit, I think these items are my favorites: https://github.com/SimplyCmd/Terracraft/blob/master/main/java/io/github/simplycmd/terracraft/ModEventSubscriber.java#L3989-L4000

There's not. There probably should be though, considering swords are the correct "tool" for some blocks (like webs). Ditto shears. For some definition of "correct" and "tool."

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Your code looks fine, my guess is that the tool predicate is returning false. Ie. that the item you're using doesn't match "simpleores:copper_shears" Double check your registry names. Scratch that, this file is in the wrong folder: https://github.com/Sinhika/SimpleOres2/blob/1.15/src/main/resources/data/forge/global_loot_modifiers/global_loot_modifiers.json Should be forge/loot_modifiers not forge/global_loot_modifiers.

Don't use threads for this.

When you copy from a location that has WYSIWYG font support, the forum gobbles up that extra formatting information (and promptly adds 4000 pixels of extra white space).

There you go. In order to answer your question we need the knowledge in order to do so. 1.12 is over 2 years old. Two and a half next week. Some of us haven't modded for 1.12 in a year. We no longer have that knowledge. As for the "flat rule" the flat rule is "current version (1.15) and one previous version (1.14)" and has been true for a lot longer than a year. Even going as far back to 1.10 this was true. Sure that should have been 1.10 and 1.8.9, but 1.7.10 was popular enough and had been around long enough that there were still people who could answer questions (and virtually no one modded for 1.8.9 in comparison).

No, they don't:

Sure, it could mean that other thing, but you're right. Its advising, informing, and answering questions. Now, what is it that "we" (meaning people like me, Diesieben07, Animefan) need to have in order to do that thing?

What is it that you think "support" is?

Because of WYSIWYG copy pasting, probably.

"How" is by "not upgrading." By continuing to mod for the version that they like they continue to know how to mod the version that they like.

Because people still ask questions about 1.7.10 and no one fucking knows anymore. Forge, as a software platform, has the authority to say "we aren't going to support that version any more (on our forums, git hub, etc), its too old." 1.12 was dominant for a long time because getting Forge updated for 1.14 took a long time, but it was absolutely worth it. A lot of old kludge was cleaned up and things were made 5000% better. You can still go elsewhere for help, but elsewhere is not here. We also don't know where elsewhere is because we don't support elsewhere.

Glad you figured it out. :)

Oh, and for reference, that constructor is used to load the entity from disk.

You realize that recipes go inside /resources/data, right? https://github.com/Draco18s/ReasonableRealism/tree/1.14.4/src/main/resources/data/harderores/recipes

Then I have no idea how you're going to go about "updating" it.