(Solved) Custom Vanilla Loot Tables

[tinytim0]

I have been trying to figure out how to add custom vanilla loot tables to my mod. I found this link https://forums.minecraftforge.net/topic/74709-1144-replace-vanilla-loot-table/ which gives an example of how to replace coal_ore.json to do so. My question is, how do I find out the names of the json files I need to replace? How do I figure out that I need to replace coal_ore.json? What if I want to replace emerald or wheat or something. I can guess, but is there an archive of these so I can know for sure?

 

Thank you kindly,

Edited September 30, 2020 by tinytim0

[Draco18s]

(A) browse the client-extra.jar assets

(B) its the same as the registry name of the block

[tinytim0]

Beautiful, took me a hot minute to find it because I'm on mac. For anyone else struggling with this, the path was 

 

Macintosh HD/Users/"Username"/.gradle/caches/forge_gradle/minecraft_repo/versions/1.16.3/client-extras.jar

 

For clarification, I'm modding minecraft version 1.16.3, this path may change a bit in the future depending on future forge updates. Follow whatever path is necessary. The .gradle folder is a hidden folder, press command + shift + dot, all at the same time to show hidden files. Lastly, the client-extras.jar is unable to be opened by the archive utility. I copied it to my desktop, erased the .jar extension and added the .zip extension instead, then I unzipped it with the archive utility. The loot table information I was looking for was in the unzipped file at

 

client-extras/data/minecraft/loot_tables/blocks

 

To create your custom vanilla loot tables, please refer to the answer at https://forums.minecraftforge.net/topic/74709-1144-replace-vanilla-loot-table/

 

Happy modding.

Edited September 30, 2020 by tinytim0

[tinytim0]

So it is! I'm still learning Java and Intellij, I'm used to working in Xcode. 

 

For anyone else that's quite new to this, if you look at the main root folders in the directory on the right hand side, there is your project, and the directory located beneath your project is called External Libraries.  The information can be found in

 

External Libraries/Gradle: net.minecraft:client:extras:1.16.3

 

Your IDE can open up the file path client-extras/data/minecraft/loot_tables/blocks from there.

 

Attached are images showing where it can be found.