[1.12.2] [Solved] crafting recipes and dyes

[GooberGunter]

I've been looking to find how to make a crafting recipe with lapis lazuli and not the other dye, is this possible

Edited December 28, 2017 by GooberGunter

[Draco18s]

Dyes use metadata.

[GooberGunter]

Sorry, so is there a way to specify metadata in a json file?

Edited December 28, 2017 by GooberGunter

[Draco18s]

Have you looked at any of the vanilla recipes that involve metadata items?

Say...cookies?

[GooberGunter]

I tried, but I still can't figure out how to access the json files. I tried via the forge reference libraries but they can't be opened, and then I tried to find them in .minecraft, but no luck there. Do you know, where I could find them?

 

Edit: I think I might've found a way to access them by opening the version file in winrar

Update: Yup

"item": "minecraft:dye",
"data": 4

Thanks, I've been trying to access vanilla assets for a while now

Edited December 28, 2017 by GooberGunter

[Draco18s]

I can open them just fine in Eclipse...

[GooberGunter]

Weird, I get the message: 'System editor can only open file base resources.'

Probably something wrong with my setup