Loot Table Primer

[StretchFre]

I have been getting into modding recently and have no idea how to even get started adding items to loot tables. I might be able to figure out how to make one, but when it comes to simply removing or adding to them in my mod i cannot seem to figure it out. Does anybody have any forbidden loot table knowledge they could share with me?

[Draco18s]

What are you trying to do?

Create your own loot table, or modify an existing loot table?

[StretchFre]

I am trying to add and remove from loot tables.

[Draco18s]

From existing loot tables.

 

Ok.

 

Subscribe to the LootTableLoadEvent.

 

And then do magic.

 

And by magic, I mean I figured most of this out by trial and error and a single existing post on the forums.

 

https://github.com/Draco18s/ReasonableRealism/blob/master/src/main/java/com/draco18s/farming/FarmingEventHandler.java#L285

with references to

https://github.com/Draco18s/ReasonableRealism/blob/master/src/main/java/com/draco18s/hardlib/util/LootUtils.java

 

If anyone else has any advice on how to do this better, I'm all ears.  My biggest complaint/issue with the loot table system is that in order to detect a given loot table, I need to compare strings.

[StretchFre]

Thank you. I will start working on it.

[Draco18s]

My biggest complaint/issue with the loot table system is that in order to detect a given loot table, I need to compare strings.

And how would you do that differently? Use an number-based ID?

 

I don't have an alternative. I don't know. But I can still not like it.

[Draco18s]

The other thing that I had trouble with, was being able to see the JSON equivalent of what I was doing.

That is, I couldn't figure out how to write my changes to a file.  I'm sure there's a way, I just couldn't figure out how.

[Leviathan143]

The other thing that I had trouble with, was being able to see the JSON equivalent of what I was doing.

That is, I couldn't figure out how to write my changes to a file.  I'm sure there's a way, I just couldn't figure out how.

Reflectively get the value of LootTableManager#GSON_INSTANCE and call Gson#toJson() with it, passing in the LootTable that you want serialised.

[Draco18s]

Ah, cool.  I'll try and remember that.

I'm done doing my manipulation, and everything works the way I want, but there was a lot of poking around in the dark.