I've seen a lot of posts about this topic but most were outdated, talking about overriding this method in your item's class:

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    @Override
    public void addInformation(ItemStack stack, World worldIn, List<ITextComponent> tooltip, ITooltipFlag flagIn) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        super.addInformation(stack, worldIn, tooltip, flagIn);
    }

but the tooltip field was List<String>, so I dont know how to deal with ITextComponent.

 

 

I also saw another post where they recomended using this event.... but I dont know which is the correct tag, or if i'm doing it correctly or not... this probably sounds like an easy thing/topic but I cant find the anwser anywhere😅

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    @SubscribeEvent
    public static void setGunDescription(ItemTooltipEvent event)
    {
        if(event.getItemStack().getItem() instanceof Gun)
        {
            System.out.println("CONTAINS KEY: "+event.getItemStack().getTag().contains("tag")); //I was using this to check if the key existed in the stack tag
            
        }
    }

 

You can add things like StringTextComponent, TranslationTextComponent.. etc that inherits from ITextComponent to the list, see how vanilla does it.

If you are using the event (for some special reasons?) you can use 

event.getToolTip()

to get the list of tooltips which got from addInformation(), and use List.add() to add new tips just like above.

45 minutes ago, poopoodice said:

You can add things like StringTextComponent, TranslationTextComponent.. etc that inherits from ITextComponent to the list, see how vanilla does it.

In other words: Right-click -> Open Type Hierarchy

4 minutes ago, poopoodice said:

You can add things like StringTextComponent, TranslationTextComponent.. etc that inherits from ITextComponent to the list, see how vanilla does it.

If you are using the event (for some special reasons?) you can use 

event.getToolTip()

to get the list of tooltips which got from addInformation(), and use List.add() to add new tips just like above.

thx, before adding the text, I cleared all the stuff from the array and added the displayName, and then my description... and its working

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    @SubscribeEvent
    public static void setGunDescription(ItemTooltipEvent event)
    {
        if(event.getItemStack().getItem() instanceof Gun)
        {
            Gun gun = (Gun) event.getItemStack().getItem();
            event.getToolTip().clear();
            event.getToolTip().add(event.getItemStack().getDisplayName());
            event.getToolTip().add(new StringTextComponent(""));
            event.getToolTip().add(new StringTextComponent("======================"));
            event.getToolTip().add(new StringTextComponent("Category: "+gun.gun_type));
            event.getToolTip().add(new StringTextComponent("Fire Type: "+gun.gun_fire_type));
            event.getToolTip().add(new StringTextComponent("Firing Rate: "+1200/gun.gun_firing_rate+"rpm"));
            event.getToolTip().add(new StringTextComponent("Damage: -"+gun.gun_damage/2+" hearts"));
            event.getToolTip().add(new StringTextComponent("Accuracy: "+gun.gun_base_accuracy*100+"%"));
            event.getToolTip().add(new StringTextComponent("Recoil: "+gun.gun_recoil));
            event.getToolTip().add(new StringTextComponent("======================"));
        }
    }

btw, how could I add color to the text?

38 minutes ago, Draco18s said:

In other words: Right-click -> Open Type Hierarchy

LOL, thx for the extra info, i didnt even know that was a thing XD

You can use setStyle to set the text's style or just use for example

applyTextStyle(TextFormatting.RED)

 

7 hours ago, poopoodice said:

You can use setStyle to set the text's style or just use for example

applyTextStyle(TextFormatting.RED)

 

sorry to hijack this thread, but where would you call applyTextStyle from? it's not a StringTextComponent method...

ITextComponent.applyTextStyle()

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