I can add armor to the inventory fine and stays while the world is loaded but after closing and reopening the items are lost.

 

Can someone take a look at my readFrom/writeToNBT methods and point out what I am doing wrong.

Github Link

 

line 73 for read and line 108 for write

the inventory portions are at 90 and 123

 

Forewarning: I am probably trying to throw a lot more into the save than is necessary.

you will need a taglist to save an inventory. otherwise the last item saved will overwrite all others

 

@Override
public void readFromNBT(NBTTagCompound compound) {
	super.readFromNBT(compound);
	NBTTagList list = compound.getTagList("items", 10);
	for(int i=0; i<list.tagCount(); i++)
	{
		NBTTagCompound nbt = list.getCompoundTagAt(i);
		byte slot = nbt.getByte("slot");
		ItemStack stack = ItemStack.loadItemStackFromNBT(nbt);
		inventory.setInventorySlotContents(slot, stack);
	}
}

@Override
public void writeToNBT(NBTTagCompound compound) {

	super.writeToNBT(compound);

	NBTTagList list = new NBTTagList();
	for(int i=0; i<inventory.getSizeInventory(); i++)
	{

		ItemStack stack = inventory.getStackInSlot(i);
		if(stack==null) continue;
		NBTTagCompound nbt = new NBTTagCompound();
		nbt.setByte("slot", (byte) i);
		stack.writeToNBT(nbt);
		list.appendTag(nbt);
	}

	compound.setTag("items", list);
}

So you can only have one NBTTagCompound or NBTTagList per nest level?

 

I switched up my read and write to make use of NBTTagList but it still doesn't save the inventory.

But it still doesn't seem to be saving. I took a look at the region file in NBTExplorer and it doesn't list any tile entities at that block location. Is there something I need to do to outside of my TileEntity file to make writeToNBT get called during save?

[quote name="UberAffe" post="193884" timestamp="1455814549"]
So you can only have one NBTTagCompound or NBTTagList per nest level?
[/quote]

Incorrect.

NBTTagCompound is a dictionary.  You can only have one object [i]with a given name[/i].

Both of these are using the same name:

[code		nbt.setTag(RefStrings.TAGLIST, list);
	nbt.setInteger(RefStrings.TAGLIST, count);

 

I'm sure the others are, too.

Is there something I need to do to outside of my TileEntity file to make writeToNBT get called during save?

I've seen vanilla code that marks tile entities as dirty so that they get saved. Hunt down an example and either imitate it or make sure that your TE calls a method that does it for you.

 

I've also run into default TE cleanup that deletes existing TE's and instantiates fresh replacements for trivial blockstate changes. Check to see if that's happening to you, and if it is, change the class member controlling that level of cleanup aggression. You might need to step through your TE code in a debugger to see what's really happening.

@jeffryfisher: I though markDirty was just to update the client with changes on the server?

 

@Draco18s: If it is just a dictionary then I am confused as to why my original bit of code wouldn't work.

//RefString values are formatted as "{modid}_{variableName}"
public void writeToNBT(NBTTagCompound nbt) 
{
            NBTTagCompound temp;
            for(int i = 0; i < inventory.length(); i++)
            {
                temp = new NBTTagCompound();
                inventory[i].writeToNBT(temp);
                nbt.setTag(RefStrings.Inventory + i, temp);
             }

 

When I had everything set up like that it still wouldn't save, even looking at the region file it doesn't show any tile entity in that location. Even if entries are getting overwritten something should still show up shouldn't it?

https://github.com/Draco18s/Artifacts/blob/master/main/java/com/draco18s/artifacts/entity/TileEntityDisplayPedestal.java#L205-L243