Help with NBT

[skip999]

Hello,

I am trying to create a set of custom armor that has a value that is unique to each chestplate. I know that in order to do this, I need to assign an NBT tag to the armor. However, I am not quite sure how to do this. I essentially need this value to be stored like durability. If anyone could help me out here I would appreciate it.

[Luis_ST]

47 minutes ago, skip999 said:

Hello,

I am trying to create a set of custom armor that has a value that is unique to each chestplate. I know that in order to do this, I need to assign an NBT tag to the armor. However, I am not quite sure how to do this. I essentially need this value to be stored like durability. If anyone could help me out here I would appreciate it.

no nbt, you need an IArmorMaterial, look at the vanilla ArmorMaterial enum, also take a look at the ArmorItem

[skip999]

I can see the confusion here. What I am essentially trying to add is a "ceramic plate" system to the armor. When the player takes a certain amount of damage, a plate is used to reduce it. I need the armor piece to be able to "store" these plates as a value. However, this value would be unique to each piece of armor. I tried using the class constant method you mentioned, but doing that has the value appear across all pieces of that armor. I know NBT is the way to do this, but I don't know how to implement it.

[Luis_ST]

use this with an ItemStack Capability

40 minutes ago, Luis_ST said:

no nbt, you need an IArmorMaterial, look at the vanilla ArmorMaterial enum, also take a look at the ArmorItem

[skip999]

Okay so I have created the Capability. My question is now how to attach it to an item when a new item is created. Would I use the ItemEvent?

[Luis_ST]

Overwrite the initCapabilities methode in your Item class

[skip999]

I got it to work I was just being a potato and not understanding how listeners work.