Overriding vanilla loot tables

[Phil_Billingsly]

I've been trying to learn how to override vanilla loot tables so I can change it. Does anyone know how to override loot tables in 1.15 modding on intellij

[Draco18s]

Create a new loot table.

Give it the same name as the vanilla one you want to override

Place it in the same directory under assets as the vanilla one has (so for example, data/minecraft/loot_tables/blocks/gold_ore.json)

Fucking magic.

[Phil_Billingsly]

I made the loot table I just don't understand where to put it because I'm making this mod for my friend

Edited June 11, 2020 by Phil_Billingsly

[Draco18s]

In the same place, with the same name, as the vanilla loot table.

I can't tell you exactly because you haven't told me what loot table you're overriding.

[Phil_Billingsly]

I'm overriding the spawner loot table

[Draco18s]

Sooo...you name your loot table spawner.json and place it in your mod's assets folder at data/minecraft/loot_tables/blocks/.

On 6/10/2020 at 5:32 PM, Draco18s said:

Create a new loot table.

Give it the same name as the vanilla one you want to override

Place it in the same directory under assets as the vanilla one has (so for example, data/minecraft/loot_tables/blocks/gold_ore.json)

Fucking magic.

 

[Sinhika]

Draco18s, you wrote the GlobalLootModifier code in Forge that solves this exact problem! Why are you recommending the bad vanilla solution? Replacing a vanilla loot table with one of your own breaks compatibility with any other mod that wants to tinker with the same loot table. We had that issue with mod shears and leaf blocks, remember?

 

[Draco18s]

Because I think of it as a modify system, not a override system. It was a replacement for HarvestDropsEvent where you'd want to do conditional things.

 

But sure, you want to tell this guy how to use the more complicated system when he couldn't even understand my first post that already had literal instructions, go right ahead.

[Sinhika]

No, they don't pay me enough to do that. And if its for a private server or small modpack, I suppose just replacing the loot table would work okay. If it's for a mod to be released to the wilds of CurseForge.... oy.