satyreyes

Thank you very much. There is nothing like seeing a working example! I have it working, and I understand Java better now to boot. (Anyone who stumbles on this thread later: stack.itemID, which is used in the linked example to identify the armor we're looking at, no longer works. We now test this with stack.getItem() == Yourmod.exampleItem.)

I hang my head in shame; in hindsight, yeah, trying to create an ItemStack of the object before the object was initialized was probably not the best idea. But I have no idea what to do instead.

I'm trying to get my armor to render correctly, and I'm running into what's probably a basic problem. The method I'm using to get the texture, which I think is all right, is: public String getArmorTexture(ItemStack stack, Entity entity, int slot, String type){ if(stack.getItem() == Heart.heartstoneChestplate) { return "tutorial:textures/models/armor/heartstone_1.png"; } else return null; } The problem comes when I actually try to call this method, from my main mod file: heartstoneChestplate = new ItemArmor(HEARTSTONE, proxy.addArmor("heartstone"), 1) .getArmorTexture(new ItemStack(this.heartstoneChestplate), null, 1, "heartstone"); ...Which underlines the whole definition in red and invites me to change heartstoneChestplate to a string rather than an item. The problem seems to be tied to the "new ItemStack" part. Am I calling ItemStack incorrectly? Is new the wrong keyword to use here? Thanks for your help!

Thank you, that's the push I needed! I had checked the Referenced Libraries, but most of them didn't look Minecraft-specific. If anyone else has the same trouble, the path in Eclipse is Minecraft/Referenced Libraries/forgeSrc-1.7.2-10.12.0.1024.jar (or the numbering of your build of Forge).

Windows 7, 64-bit. It's my first time modding Minecraft and I'm trying to add some smelting recipes. It's tough to find a tutorial with code that works in the current version of Forge, so I thought I'd go look at the syntax used in net.minecraft.item.crafting.FurnaceRecipes. But I can't find any vanilla Minecraft code in the directory to which I pointed Eclipse: http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i117/satyreyes/forge-eclipse-structure_zps100a2883.png[/img] All of my import statements are working fine -- but I can't see what I'm importing! Have I installed Forge incorrectly? I acknowledge that I'm new at Java. I hope this isn't a "go learn Java" kind of question, and that someone will be able to answer it in the spirit of helping a man teach himself to fish.