Creative Tab Modifiers

Creative Tab Modifiers

This feature allows you to edit the content of a creative tab. This inclues:

• Adding new items (at a certain position)
• Removing existing items
• Changing icon
• Adding search bar
• Change background texture
• Adding a new tab (WIP)
• Hiding a tab entirely (WIP)

Preliminary concepts

An Item Stack is a game object that contains an item + its count + its NBT / Components. Tab modifiers can add these to creative tabs. This concept is explained on the Official Minecraft wiki and is used in many places such as in Loot Tables or Recipes.

Getting Started

To start you'll need to create a .json file in your resource pack folder in assets/[tab namespace]/polytone/creative_tab_modifiers/[tab name].json.

For example if you want to modify minecraft:combat you can do so with a file located in assets/minecraft/polytone/biome_effects/combat.json

Explicit targeting

Alternatively, if you want to manually specify your targets you can place this json in assets/[your pack namespace]/polytone/creative_tab_modifiers/[some name].json (Any path will work but this is recommended to avoid overwriting Implicit defined targets).

Then you can add the targets field to the json containing a list of valid Dimension ids as follows:

{
   "targets": ["minecraft:combat", "minecraft:building_blocks"]
}

Json Structure

Here are all the parameters that you can include in your modifier. All fields are optional

field	explanation
icon	An ItemStack. Will modify the tab icon
can_scroll	If tab can scroll or not
show_title	If tab has a title or not
name	A Component. Tab name
removals	A list of Item Predicates (see below) that will determine which items to remove
additions	A list of Item Additions (see below) that will determing which items to add
targets	A list of IDS to use for explicit targeting
search_bar	Boolean, Forge Only. If tab has a search bar
search_bar_width	Forge Only. Search bar width
background	Forge Only. Background texture location
tabs_image	Forge Only. Tabs background texture location
before_tabs	Forge Only. A List of creative tab IDS that should come before this tab is added
after_tabs	Forge Only. A List of creative tab IDS that should come after this tab position

Here's an example of how a basic modifier could look

{
  "removals": [
    {
      "type": "tag_match",
      "tag": "swords"
    }
  ],
  "additions": [
    {
      "items": "minecraft:diamond",
      {
        "id":"minecraft:diamond_hoe",
        "components":{
          "minecraft:custom_name":"\"bro\""
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "after_tabs": [
     "minecraft:combat"
  ]
}

Removals

The removals block contains a list of Item Predicate objects.

Each predicate is essentially a Tester that returns True or False when queried with an item. These are used to determine WHICH item to target (in this case remove)

Each Item Predicate has the following syntax:

field	explanation
type	The type of the predicate
[value]	The value(s) of the predicate. Each predicate type has its own and are listed below

Here's a list of all the types you can use:

predicate name	value(s)	explanation
or	predicates. A list of Item Predicates objects	Returns true if just one of its predicates is true
and	predicates. A list of Item Predicates objects	Returns true if any predicate is true
not	predicate. A single predicate object	Returns true if that predicate is false
tag_match	tag. An item tag	Returns true if an item belongs to that tag
items_match	items. A list of Items	Returns true if an item is contained in that list
itemstack_match	itemstack. An ItemStack (using vanilla syntax)	Returns true if an item matches the entire itemstack, this include its nbt
id_match	namespace, path. Two Regular Expression strings. Only one is required	Returns true if the item ID's namespace and path both match those regular expressions
true	None	Matches all items

Here's an example defining a predicate that targets all items that do NOT contain "block" in their name:

{
  "type": "not",
  "predicate": {
    "type": "id_match",
    "path": "block"
  }
}

Additions

The additions block contains a list of Item Addition objects. The purpose of each of these is to determine WHICH items to add and WHERE to add it to.

An Item Addition object has the following syntax:

field	explanation
items	A list or single of either an Item or an Itemstack to be added to the Tab.
before	Optional, Boolean. Wether to add these items before or after the items targeted by predicate
predicate	Optional. An Item Predicate (explained above). Determines before or after which item these items will be added
inverse	When true will add all registered items except what's inside the items field

As you can see the Item Predicate object from before was reused here. Check it out above.

If predicate is left out, the items will be added at the end of the tab.

Here's an example of some items added after the Iron Axe item

{
  "items": [
     "iron_shovel",
     "iron_sword"
  ],
  "before": false,
  "predicate": {
    "type": "items_match",
    "items": [
      "minecraft:iron_axe"
    ]
  }
}

Icon

The icon field takes a single itemstack.

Custom Creative Tabs

Polytone lets you register custom Creative Tabs via Resource Pack.

NOTE: This section will only explain how to register them. To actually configure them properly you'll HAVE to also add a Creative Tab Modifier that actually adds items to them, otherwise they won't show up. It's recommended to also add a name field to their modifier to give them a proper display name.

Disclaimer

This feature is EXPERIMENTAL and will remain so until its proven that it does not have side effects.

While I was not able to have any issues with it, the way this on the fly registration works is quite sketchy as they game doesnt usually do that. While its unlikely that these issues could be manifested its still worth using this feature with care. One known side effect is the fact that tabs WON'T uen Un-Registered once you disable a pack that adds them and WILL require game reboot.

Moreover if you have access to mods like KubeJs it is recommended to register your Creative Tabs there instead

Registering

To add new creative tabs simply add a list of comma separated creative tab names in assets/[your pack name]/polytone/creative_tabs.csv Here's an example:

bows,
scary_items,
greg_stuff

This will register those 3 creative tabs under YOUR PACK namespace. This means that to reference them you'll need to call them with their fully classified id [your pack name]:[your creative tab name]. Say for example that your pack is called _my_pack_, then the creative tab ID will be something like my_pack:scary_items.