Beginner Question: error: cannot find symbol - class DeferredRegister

[sebastian.klute@gmail.com]

Hello!

 

I am totally new in MC-Modding. i have just set up my IntelliJ-Enviroment and now i try to add a first Test-Material from a Modding-Tutorial. I have done some Java-Coding years ago and really need to get in this again, this will take a little time.

 

I hope you can help me with a problem now:

 

I hava attached two files, they are nearly 1:1 copies of the modding-tutorial.

 

In IntelliJ I get the following error:

 

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C:\Minecraft Mod Timstar\src\main\java\com\example\examplemod\RegistryHandler.java:22: error: cannot find symbol
    public static final DeferredRegister<Item> ITEMS = DeferredRegister.create(ForgeRegistries.ITEMS, ExampleMod.MODID);
                        ^
  symbol:   class DeferredRegister
  location: class RegistryHandler

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What am I doing wrong, can you help me?

 

Kind Regards,

Sebix 🙂

ExampleMod.javaFetching info... RegistryHandler.javaFetching info...

[sebastian.klute@gmail.com]

  On 11/12/2020 at 6:49 PM, diesieben07 said:

You did not import the class...?

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If I add:

import ...;

 

I get:

ExampleMod.java:2: error: <identifier> expected import ...;

 

 

[sebastian.klute@gmail.com]

What class do you mean?

[sebastian.klute@gmail.com]

  On 11/12/2020 at 6:55 PM, diesieben07 said:

Did you seriously try to import something called "..."?

Are you not using an IDE?

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I use IntelliJ. And yes - I tried it.

 

It was in the tutorial mod. But I was sure it was just the hidden imports, so i deleted it.

 

After your post I thought it could be some "spooky MC/gradle"-Stuff. But after trying and posting I was sure I did just nonsense. 🤪

 

 

[sebastian.klute@gmail.com]

But I still don´t know which class I should import, the RegistryHandler?

[MostafaSabry55]

This is kinda basic java stuff, but my advice to you is to see what keybind automatically imports classes for you, in eclipse it's ctrl + shift + o, not sure about Intellij

[sebastian.klute@gmail.com]

Ok, so this shoul be the DeferredRegister-Class.

 

That makes sense, but where can I find it? IntelliJ is marking the imports grey, like if they are comments.

[sebastian.klute@gmail.com]

  On 11/12/2020 at 7:15 PM, diesieben07 said:

Dude.

Stop messing with the imports manually. Just write your code. If you need DeferredRegister, type DeferredRegister, hit Ctrl-Space and select it. It will auto-import.

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This was the right hint. I think the problem was, that I copied and pasted the code into the existing files and the autoimport didn´t recognize the missing imports. Now it seems to work. Thank you very much.

Edited November 12, 2020 by sebastian.klute@gmail.com

[ModMCdl]

  On 11/12/2020 at 7:30 PM, sebastian.klute@gmail.com said:

that I copied and pasted the code into the existing files and the autoimport didn´t recognize the missing imports.

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If you are using IntelliJ, hovering over the errored/missing classes should give you an option to import those classes. I'd recommend learning how to use your IDE first before continuing.