RoBoLilly

actually You just fixed my problem. Thank you. It just needed to restraint it by the number of subtypes.

I do have subtypes

realy what I'm trying to do is not this 256 times. GameRegistry.addShapelessRecipe(new ItemStack(VioletMod.violetShard,1, 1), VioletMod.violetShard, coalNum); GameRegistry.addShapelessRecipe(new ItemStack(VioletMod.violetShard,1, 2), VioletMod.violetShard, coalNum, coalNum); GameRegistry.addShapelessRecipe(new ItemStack(VioletMod.violetShard,1, 3), VioletMod.violetShard, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum); GameRegistry.addShapelessRecipe(new ItemStack(VioletMod.violetShard,1, 4), VioletMod.violetShard, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum); GameRegistry.addShapelessRecipe(new ItemStack(VioletMod.violetShard,1, 5), VioletMod.violetShard, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum); GameRegistry.addShapelessRecipe(new ItemStack(VioletMod.violetShard,1, 6), VioletMod.violetShard, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum); GameRegistry.addShapelessRecipe(new ItemStack(VioletMod.violetShard,1, 7), VioletMod.violetShard, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum); GameRegistry.addShapelessRecipe(new ItemStack(VioletMod.violetShard,1, , VioletMod.violetShard, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum); GameRegistry.addShapelessRecipe(new ItemStack(VioletMod.violetShard,1, 2), VioletMod.violetShard,1, coalNum); GameRegistry.addShapelessRecipe(new ItemStack(VioletMod.violetShard,1, 3), VioletMod.violetShard,1, coalNum, coalNum); GameRegistry.addShapelessRecipe(new ItemStack(VioletMod.violetShard,1, 4), VioletMod.violetShard,1, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum); GameRegistry.addShapelessRecipe(new ItemStack(VioletMod.violetShard,1, 5), VioletMod.violetShard,1, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum); GameRegistry.addShapelessRecipe(new ItemStack(VioletMod.violetShard,1, 6), VioletMod.violetShard,1, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum); GameRegistry.addShapelessRecipe(new ItemStack(VioletMod.violetShard,1, 7), VioletMod.violetShard,1, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum); GameRegistry.addShapelessRecipe(new ItemStack(VioletMod.violetShard,1, , VioletMod.violetShard,1, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum); GameRegistry.addShapelessRecipe(new ItemStack(VioletMod.violetShard,1, 9), VioletMod.violetShard,1, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum, coalNum);

That was the problem. I'm going to try the loop thing for another 15 min then I'm going to give up. Thank you for your help. That was a dumb mistake. Thank you

I'm trying get minecraft to register a Recipe with a var and it just keeps Crashing. I've been looking for a way to do this. Also this is my first time posting like this. Let me know If there is a better place for me to post questions like this. This is my code. package com.violet.violetmod; import [ ... ] @Mod(modid = VioletMod.MODID, version = VioletMod.VERSION) public class VioletMod{ public static final String MODID = "violetMod"; public static final String VERSION = "0.1 Alpha"; public static Item violetShard; public String coalNum = "Items.coal"; @EventHandler public void init(FMLInitializationEvent event) { violetShard = new VioletShard().setUnlocalizedName("violetShard"); GameRegistry.registerItem(violetShard, violetShard.getUnlocalizedName().substring(5)); for(int i=1; i<9; i++){ coalNum = "Items.coal"; for(int r=1; r<i; r++){ coalNum = coalNum + ", Items.coal"; } System.out.println(coalNum); } GameRegistry.addShapelessRecipe(new ItemStack(VioletMod.violetShard,1), VioletMod.violetShard, coalNum); } } I did cut out a large amount of code just to make it easier to troubleshoot.