I'm trying to select a hotbar slot with a certain item in it by first grabbing the inventory and scanning through the list of items to find a match. If I find a match, I want to select this slot but this is where I'm stuck. I can't find any method in the Inventory or Player API that let's me do that. Is this possible or did I overlook something?

 

But does this spawn a new item or does it just select it?

Neither this:

 

player.inventory.currentItem = 0;

 

Nor this:

 

player.inventory.changeCurrentItem(0);

 

Appears to be working...

I take it you want to destroy the current item as you're trying to set it to null?

 

Isn't it more efficient to call the following instead of messing around with changeCurrentItem?

 

YourcurrentEntityPlayerObject.destroyCurrentEquippedItem();

 

or

 

YourcurrentEntityPlayerObject.inventory.getCurrentItem()

 

it returns an itemstack. Otherwise you have to append '.getItem()' behind it.

 

Furthermore you can swap items with

 

YourcurrentEntityPlayerObject.inventory.setInventorySlotContents(current item, new itemstack of item you want to place there);

 

I'm not trying to destroy an item. I'm trying to select a hotbar slot.