Using other mods' items in my crafting recipes

[Aspiring-Mod-Maker]

I saw this somewhere once before, but I guess I did not bookmark it with all the rest of my tutorial links. Oops.

 

I am adding a battery-like item to my mod, as a crafting material to make more complex items.

I would also like to include extra recipes that support a few battery-like items from other mods to be useable as a replacement for my battery.

I know the basic concept of how I have to check if the other mod is present to check if the recipe needs to be active or not, but I do not remember any of the specific methods/functions to use in my code.

 

Also, by chance, does anyone know the coded item names of IC2's RE Battery and/or Galacticraft 2's Battery?

These are the items I want to add recipe support for in case you couldn't guess.

[jabelar]

One trick is you can just make a debug method in your mod that lists names and/or ids of all the registered items (or blocks or entities) to the console, and then run your mod with the other mods.  I think you can probably also inspect the lang files of the other mods.

[Roflcopter]

Use the Ic2 Api

http://ic2api.player.to:8080/job/IC2_experimental/397/

 

battery name

// batteries

  reBattery; // Empty RE Battery item, currently not meta sensitive

  chargedReBattery; // RE Battery item, meta = damage value for charge level

  advBattery;        // Adv Batteryitem, meta = damage value for charge level

  energyCrystal; // Energy Crystal item, meta = damage value for charge level

  lapotronCrystal; // Lapotron Crystal item, meta = damage value for charge level

  suBattery; // SU Battery item, meta = damage value for charge level

 

 

[Mitchellbrine]

CraftingManager.getInstance().getRecipeList().add(new ShapelessOreRecipe(new ItemStack(/*Crafting Result*/, 1), "XY",'X',"battery",'Y',/*Other Item*/));

 

That's assuming they both register in the ore dictionary as "battery"