Variants

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Custom variants of magic eight cubes are created using datapacks.

Location

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Variant Json files go into the data/magiceightcube/cube_variants directory in your datapack.

File Specification

magiceightcube.json

data/magiceightcube/cube_variants/magiceightcube.json

{
  "badphrases": [
    "text.eightball.message1",
    "text.eightball.message2",
    "text.eightball.message3",
    "text.eightball.message4",
    "text.eightball.message5"
  ],
  "display_name": {
    "translate": "item.magiceightcube.name"
  },
  "goodphrases": [
    "text.eightball.message11",
    "text.eightball.message12",
    "text.eightball.message13",
    "text.eightball.message14",
    "text.eightball.message15",
    "text.eightball.message16",
    "text.eightball.message17",
    "text.eightball.message18",
    "text.eightball.message19",
    "text.eightball.message20"
  ],
  "title": "magiceightcube",
  "translatable": true,
  "unsurephrases": [
    "text.eightball.message6",
    "text.eightball.message7",
    "text.eightball.message8",
    "text.eightball.message9",
    "text.eightball.message10"
  ]
}

example.json

data/magiceightcube/cube_variants/example.json

{
  "badphrases": [
    "no",
    "Pay $1.99 for 5 more answers."
  ],
  "display_name": "Example Cube",
  "goodphrases": [
    "How Do You Keep An Idiot Amused? Please Shake For Answer.",
    "Think, what would a Jedi do?",
    "Don't do it, your friends are idiots."
  ],
  "title": "example",
  "translatable": false,
  "unsurephrases": [
    "Go ask a real person.",
    "Please shake again."
  ]
}

Available Fields

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Field	Type	Details
display_name	String	Name of Magic Eight Cube ingame
title	String	name of variant (No Spaces)
translatable	Boolean (true or false)	true if variant uses translatable strings as in magiceightcube.json, or false if it dosent as in example.json
badphrases	List	List of bad phrases
unsurephrases	List	List of unsure phrases
goodphrases	List	List of good phrases

Using in recipes, loottables, etc

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"result": {
    "components": {
      "magiceightcube:cube_variant": "magiceightcube:example"
    },
    "count": 1,
    "id": "magiceightcube:custommagiceightcube"
  }