I am attempting to get an Item from a tag (like 'Ingots/copper') to have my mod offer support for mods, but I am having an issue with my method returning null, so I assume that I have something wrong, or I am going about it the wrong way.

 

	public static Item getOreDict(String oreDic) {
		ResourceLocation tag = new ResourceLocation("forge", oreDic);
		Tag<Item> t = ItemTags.getCollection().get(tag);
		if(t == null) {
			Main.LOGGER.error(tag.toString());
			return null;
		}
		Collection<Item> tagCollection = t.getAllElements();
		for(Item item : tagCollection) {
			Main.LOGGER.info(item.getName().getFormattedText());
			return item;	
		}
		return null;
	}

 

Rather than getting items from a tag, query if a given item has a given tag.

Well, I was already told to not do this, but what I was doing, was checking if there is any items registered to a certain tag, and if so try and get the first one so I can use it in my code to enable/disable item and recipe registration, but I am now just registering the item and I need to disable the recipes if the item doesnt exist, which is my next goal. I am not too sure how to use the conditions in the recipes to check for a mod or item