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- Letting Client Player know It Needs to read NBT
  
  By jredfox · Posted 3 minutes ago
  
  if your not going to help why do you waist my time. I simply asked how do I fool the game into thinking that the player has re-logged into the world or has died fully? By playerdata I refer to the entire players stats, nbt and other stuff written to the disk that I attempt to grab and try to update, the entire playerdata is updated on relog into world and on death. So by playerdata I mean the stats you wanted me to stop calling it NBT since it is nbt reading/writing just across a file on world re-log and packets
- Should I just switch to Java?
  
  By CosmicDan · Posted 54 minutes ago
  
  A lot of the complaints about Java are sourced from it's verbosity - as diesieben07 mentioned. But that verbosity is also the reason why Java is so popular in the enterprise sector - it makes large projects and collaboration MUCH easier. While it's of course a good idea to write lots of inline comments, Java's main benefit is that it's self-documenting. But again, others might consider it as "too verbose". If you plan on making an opensource mod and like collaboration, I think you really should stick with Java. To save time on the verbosity and repetition, use Project Lombok (it's essential for me these days). Also if you use Eclipse, switch to IntelliJ IDEA - I was resistant to switch for a long time, but after a few days of configuring and learning I am VERY glad I swallowed my pride and took the time to switch and learn. I know Kotlin is gaining ground, and is even now an officially supported Android development language, but sticking to relatively obscure languages will keep your contribution level similarly obscure. I tried to get into Kotlin but I honestly didn't see the point in partitioning my language focus for it's minor benefits. No companies out there will expect you to know it. I personally don't care much for Kotlin. The null-phobia is a reactionary one that is yet-another level of abstraction that isn't necessary IMO and doesn't always provide NPE safety much anyway. But I'm the kind of guy who has my IDE warn me on fields that aren't explicitly declared to null Also it got rid of the ternary operator, and various other little things that just seem counter-productive. But I have a C++ background so yeah. It's obviously loved by a lot of people but it just isn't for me. Java gets a lot of hate, and I've had my fair share of annoyances with it (I started working with C# a while ago and it's really a fantastic language) but I always come back to Java mostly because of the massive community, availability of resources and the volume of capable programmers. It's very easy for any programmer to grasp any Java that even loosely follows the standards and conventions (which is exactly why some criticize it as being too verbose). In summary: I suggest Java with Project Lombok if you want to be community-friendly and keep your commercial-level programming well practiced. Almost all of the major issues people have with Java are solved with Lombok and Java 8's new functional programming additions (i.e. lambda's and method references).
- Letting Client Player know It Needs to read NBT
  
  By diesieben07 · Posted 2 hours ago
  
  Please stop referring to this concept of "playerdata". It only exists on disk, which we do not care about.
- Forge crashes on startup
  
  By diesieben07 · Posted 2 hours ago
  
  Don't hijack other people's threads. Make your own thread and actually describe your issue properly.
- [1.10.2+] Item for each entity
  
  By Abastro · Posted 3 hours ago
  
  First, you'll need an item with the DNA capability. I guess it should contain the id of the entity type, but it could vary per what you want. Now I think you don't need DNA caps on entity side. Just iterate through the entity registry to check existing entity types, and do what you want with it. Just don't register items based on entity types. And again, actual implementation varies per what you need - like, how would you use the DNA item? Should it be extracted from the entity? Does dna information vary per each entity-in this case you need entity caps-?
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  Should I just switch to Java?
  
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  [1.10.2+] Item for each entity
  
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  [1.12.1]TileEntity Freeze-Up
  
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