Method that gets called once when an item is created?

[DrNickenstein]

I'm guessing onCraftedBy is only called when it's crafted and not called when, for instance, you get an item through commands or the creative tab. Is there another method that gets called every time when an item is created or is there another way I should go in order to do some stuff when an item is created?

[warjort]

There is no such method. ItemStacks are created by the game all the time for many reasons. e.g. copying, deserializing from the disk or network, etc.

If this is another part of your NBT questions, NBT is meant to be "optional" data. If your data is not present you need to provide a default value.

[warjort]

Capabilities have some support for initializing data. See ItemStack.forgeInit() and Item.initCapabilities()

Edited January 7, 2023 by warjort

[DrNickenstein]

9 minutes ago, warjort said:

If this is another part of your NBT questions, NBT is meant to be "optional" data. If your data is not present you need to provide a default value.

It is indeed. I needed that info as I needed to create the tag element and put the starting value but couldn't do it in hurtEnemy cause it would get called continously. Gotcha, thanks. I was asking because I remember in some older version there was an onCreated method somewhere, can't recall exactly where though

[DrNickenstein]

7 minutes ago, warjort said:

Capabilities have some support for initializing data. See ItemStack.forgeInit() and Item.initCapabilities()

Capabilities seem pretty complex and unnecessary for what I'm doing, I'll check it out though if I feel like I need it, thank you

[perromercenary00]

i do something similar in 1.8 

the only efective way i found was to add boolean tag initialized 
then in every get funtion i check if initialized  == true  if not the initialize it