Okay, so i've created my own Item with 4 metadata value. The problem is that I want each of my metadata items to have a different name instead of having one uniformed name. As you can see in the image below, I used one localization and all the metadata's names have the same name.

 

ItemMetadata class:

 

 

public class MetaRing extends Item
{
public MetaRing()
{
	this.setHasSubtypes(true);
	this.setUnlocalizedName("meta_ring");
	this.setRegistryName("meta_ring");
	this.setHasSubtypes(true);
	this.setCreativeTab(Main.tabBrothers);
}

@Override
public void getSubItems(Item itemIn, CreativeTabs tab, List<ItemStack> subItems)
{
	subItems.add(new ItemStack(itemIn, 1, 0));
	subItems.add(new ItemStack(itemIn, 1, 1));
	subItems.add(new ItemStack(itemIn, 1, 2));
	subItems.add(new ItemStack(itemIn, 1, 3));
}
}

 

 

 

RegisterItems class:

 

 

public class RegisterItems
{
public static Item meta_ring;

public static void main()
{
	init();
	register();
}

private static void init()
{
	meta_ring = new MetaRing();
}

private static void register()
{
	GameRegistry.registerItem(meta_ring, meta_ring.getRegistryName());
}

public static void registerRenders()
{
	PlayHelper.registerRenderMetaItems(meta_ring, 0, "white_meta_ring");
	PlayHelper.registerRenderMetaItems(meta_ring, 1, "red_meta_ring");
	PlayHelper.registerRenderMetaItems(meta_ring, 2, "blue_meta_ring");
	PlayHelper.registerRenderMetaItems(meta_ring, 3, "green_meta_ring");
}
}

 

 

 

Registered RegisterItems#main in my Mod class's preInit and RegisterItems#registerRenders in my ClientProxy's preInit.

You need to override

getUnlocalizedName(ItemStack)

in your

Item

class and return whatever unlocalized name you want based on the metadata.

 

Hm, can I use the if statements and check if the ItemDamage is equals to a specific value, then return the String of the name?

Thanks diesieben07! It worked! 

Or you could pull a string from an array of strings using meta as the index.

Or you could pull a string from an array of strings using meta as the index.

 

Would this really be better, just because the code is a bit shorter? I mean you store the Strings in the Array the whole time with that solution

You'd be stunned by how much data is stored by Minecraft in order to avoid calculating it every time it is needed. Just think of the model bakery...

 

A switch statement would compile into a jump table much like the array I suggested. The only difference might be where the strings are stored (or maybe only where the pointers to the strings are stored).

 

For a compact data set with known contiguous index, a static array should fit perfectly.