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Catnip
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Topic category: Help with modding (Java Edition)
I am wanting to create a procedure that will get the loot table of a certain entity that is determined by location, so it could be almost any entity from vanilla or modded Minecraft. I have found a procedure block to get the entity's registry name which should contain entity name and mod namespace, but I don't know how I can insert entity/ in the middle of it to convert it to a valid loot table name. If anyone knows how to do this, a guide would be much appreciated.
Edited by Catnip on Mon, 02/12/2024 - 22:24
After quite a bit of trial and error, I figured it out.
You first need to create two local string variables, one that I am calling entity, and one that I am calling mod, then create the following procedure:
(set local:[entity] to ("{entity namespace}"))
(set local:[mod] to ("{}"))
(While) (does text (get local:[entity]) contain ("{:}")
(Do) (Set local:[mod] to: (create text with (get local:[mod])(substring:(get local:[entity]) from position: ({0}) to position: ({1}))))
(Set local:[entity] to: (substring:(get local:[entity]) from position: ({1}) to position: (length of)(get local:[entity])))
After you have all of that set up, setting the 'entity' string variable to the entity's registry name, setting the 'mod' string variable to nothing, then transferring one letter at a time from 'entity' to 'mod' until 'mod' contains the colon, and therefore the mod registry name of the entity, you can use a 'create text with' procedure block to put together 'mod', a text component 'entities/' and 'entity' to get the loot table for that entity.
I hope this helps anyone who is looking to do something similar, I know it's very complicated, but everything has a purpose here.