[DISCONTINUED] Localized Written Books

This is a Server and Client side mod, powered by Mixin which adds “locTitle” and “locAuthor” NBT tag support for Written Books.

The feature language-aware modpack creators need! (You are free to include this in your modpack)

You’ll need to add the Mixin Bootstrap into your mods folder (only if your modpack doesn’t already have it) so Mixins can load up!

You ever wanted to add written books that tell a story (lore) about your modpack,

-either using commands or mod’s config files (like Recurrent complex‘s loot, Dregora‘s loot, etc.)-

but your users are constrained by language barriers?

Normally, modpack creators use these tags to create a written book:

{pages:[“{“text“:

“Do not run but hide as they will come.\nHowls in the night, Dark red eyes… They will hunt…\nThey will grunt… Stay hidden, close the doors\nFootsteps on the nearby floors… It is too late\nThey found their prey…”

}”],

title: “At Twilight”,

author: “The Dark Witch”,

display:{Lore:[“Dark Omen”], ench:[{id:10,lvl:1}]}

To solve part of this problem, Minecraft 1.12.2 supports the “translate” tag, which allows you to use a language key for each page.

And with this Mixin, now you can change the written book NBT data to this:

{pages:[“{“translate“: “book.dregorarl.AtTwilight.page.1″}”],

locTitle: “book.dregorarl.AtTwilight.title”,

locAuthor: “book.dregorarl.AtTwilight.author”,

display:{LocLore:[“book.dregorarl.AtTwilight.lore”], ench:[{id:10,lvl:1}]}

(for the LocLore tag, you’ll need my “Localized Lore” Mixin)

If you want to immediately try out this Mixin, you can write this command:

/give @p written_book 1 0 {pages:[“{\”translate\”:\”book.locwrittenbooksmixin.Example.page.1\”}”],locTitle:”book.locwrittenbooksmixin.Example.title”,locAuthor:”book.locwrittenbooksmixin.Example.author”}

Combination examples:

“title” and “author”

“title” and “locAuthor”

“locTitle” and “author”

“locTitle” and “locAuthor”

If you set both “title” AND “locTitle”, or “author” AND “locAuthor” tags, the localized tags will take precedence.

Why setting both, you ask?

This is if your mod is server-side and you want to accept vanilla clients.

Vanilla clients will only see the information from “title” and “author”.

Clients with this Mixin will see the information from “locTitle” and “locAuthor” instead.

Tested with RLCraft, a heavily customized modpack that includes tons of mods and Mixins. 

For Written Book’s data structure, check this link.

Remember to add your custom lang file with your language keys into the resources folder or Resource Pack!