Can someone please take a look at my code, and tell me why the texture for my cage_block doesn't show up (aka: i get the purple and black missing texture) in the inventory or in my hand, but when I place it, the texture works perfectly fine?

 

The code is in my github: https://github.com/vikingiwan/not-the-bees/tree/master/src/main/java/com/vikingiwan/ntbMod

The FML log should tell you what went wrong when loading the model. If you don't know what to make of it, upload the log to Gist and link it here.

 

There are several issues with your code:

 

Don't use the deprecated

GameRegistry.registerBlock

/

registerItem

methods, use

GameRegistry.register

. This requires you to register an

ItemBlock

for your

Block

instead of doing it for you.

 

Don't use unlocalised names for registry names. The whole point of the registry name methods being added in 1.8.9 was to stop people from doing that.

 

Set your registry names in your

Item

constructors. If the

Item

class is used by multiple instances, take the registry name as a constructor argument. If the

Item

class in only used by one instance, you can hardcode the registry name in the constructor.

 

If your registry and unlocalised names are the same, I recommend setting the registry name (

setRegistryName("myItem")

) and then setting the unlocalised name to the full registry name (

setUnlocalizedName(getRegistryName())

). This will result in your item's full unlocalised name being

item.modid:myItem.name

, which includes your mod ID to avoid conflicts with other mods.

 

Don't use

ItemModelMesher#register

to register models, use

ModelLoader.setCustomModelResourceLocation

/

setCustomMeshDefinition

in preInit.

 

You're using an internal class from Jline for your logging, this is a bad idea. Use

FMLPreInitializationEvent#getModLog

to get a

Logger

with your mod ID as its name, then use this for logging.

 

Your

@Mod

class is in the

client

package, but it's not a client-only class.