Clay Forming

[Micah Holmes]

Recently I tried to add "Cob" as a new clay forming item. That failed, so I tried to Patch cob into clay. That kept throwing errors. Is clay locked down and you cant alter it or make new systems using the clay forming system?

[Spear and Fang]

not locked down no.  As a test I added this to stick.json

    class: "ItemClay",

    variantgroups: [

        { code: "type", states: ["red" ] }

    ],

I chose stick because it was an item and the class I was adding was an item class.
I added the "type" variant group because the ItemClay class relies on it here

vssurvivalmod/Item/ItemClay.cs at 849fa8cad9e392368566efc7474e73db6404a145 · anegostudios/vssurvivalmod

Of course you have to be super cautious about adding variant groups willy nilly, because that changes the asset completely.  So I would probably not do this to vanilla assets.

I chose red so I would have less worries about outputs/rendering, i.e. json files like survival\blocktypes\clay\clayform.json

Then I just needed one more thing, an actual recipe. I arbitrarily added one to survival\recipes\clayforming\axemold.json, the same as the existing recipe but with this ingredient

ingredient: { type: "item", code: "stick-*", name: "color", allowedVariants: ["red"] },

   

and boom. I was clayforming axe molds with sticks.