Item Creative Tab Ordering

[skip999]

Hello,

I am working on getting my mod ready for an alpha release. One of the things I would like to polish before doing so is the order the items and blocks appear in the creative tab. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it. I thought it might be the order in which I define the objects, but that doesn't seem to be the case, as the order doesn't change when I move the object definition around in the iteminit class. Can anyone help me with this?

 

Here is a link to the project on github: https://github.com/skiprocks999/Amulets-of-Infinity/tree/Block-Library

[skip999]

The only thing I am not clear on is where to define this class. Would I put it in the init package or does it go in the mod class?

[Novârch]

33 minutes ago, skip999 said:

Would I put it in the init package or does it go in the mod class?

It doesn't matter where you put the class, packages are just for sorting.

[skip999]

Okay so out the door I have run into a problem. I go to extend "CreativeTabs", and the class does not exist. The only two options I am presented (three if you include the create a class one) is either "CreativeScreen" or "CreativeSettings". Am I taking what the post is saying to literally? I am in 1.15.2 for my mod version, so its possible the name has just changed.

[poopoodice]

It's call ItemGroup now, and no need to extend anything, everything is in ItemGroup include vanilla ones

[skip999]

Okay so on the forum post diesie listed above, the override appears to include having a list where you manually put in every item in the mod. I am using defferedregistries, so where it states:

 

              List<Item> items = Arrays.asList(your_item_1, your_item_2, ...);

 

could I simply have:

 

             List<Item> items = null;

             items.addAll(ITEMS);

 

this way when I add or remove an item I do not have to also modify the creative tab extension class in my main mod class

 

(for reference the defferedregister for my items is named ITEMS)

[skip999]

Okay good thats how I want items to appear. Thanks!

[skip999]

So I have hit a bit of a snag. I was able to get it working for the item library just fine. However, I cannot seem to figure out how to get it to work for my block library. The main issue is that I am using deferredregistries, so I only have the blocks defined in the init class. In my main mod class, I have a method that generates the block items for me, which I have listed here:

 

    public static void onRegisterItems(final RegistryEvent.Register<Item> event) {
                
        final IForgeRegistry<Item> registry = event.getRegistry();
        
        List<BlockItem> blockItems = new ArrayList<BlockItem>();
        
        BlockInit.BLOCKS.getEntries().stream().map(RegistryObject::get).forEach(block ->   {
            final Item.Properties properties =
                    new Item.Properties().group(ContInfBlockLibItemGroup.itemGroupInstance);
            final BlockItem blockItem = new BlockItem(block,properties);
            blockItem.setRegistryName(block.getRegistryName());
            blockItems.add(blockItem);
            registry.register(blockItem);
        });
        
        logger.debug("Registered BlockItems");
    }

 

I have attempted to get a list of the block items out of the method, but to no avail. How would I go about doing that?

 

[skip999]

I dont know what you mean by that.

[skip999]

Here is my code for extracting the list of blocks from the registry:
            Object[] listOfBlocks = BlockInit.BLOCKS.getEntries().stream().map(RegistryObject::get).toArray();
            List<Block> blockItems= new ArrayList<Block>();
            for(int i = 0; i < listOfBlocks.length;i++) {
                blockItems.add((Block)listOfBlocks);
            }

I am not seeing any option for blocktoitem on any of the entries in the blockItems list, nor can I find any documentation online on how I would use it. How would I apply it? And where would I apply it?

[skip999]

I am not getting that as an option for the block instances. Is it an external method I call and pass in the block instance? If so, what do I call it from?

[skip999]

Wait I got it to work. I had been fiddling since I last posted and forgot. Thanks!