Inquiry regarding Forge compilation and fix for Item visibility in Creative Tab/JEI

[RomanFama592]

Hi @JSJBDEV,

I've been looking into Valkyrien Icebreakers and I’m interested in contributing/testing some modifications. Specifically, I’ve noticed that the Ice Breaker item does not currently appear in the Creative Inventory tabs or in JEI, even though the block exists in the game.

I have already written a fix for this in the Fabric version by implementing the ItemGroupEvents and ensuring the BlockItem is correctly registered and injected into ItemGroups.FUNCTIONAL.

However, I noticed that while the current build.gradle is configured for Fabric, there is some discussion/interest in a Forge version. I would like to ask:

Forge Compilation: Do you have a specific workflow or a separate branch to compile this mod for Forge? (e.g., using Architectury, Sinytra, or a manual port).

Implementation: Since I've fixed the visibility issues on the Fabric side, I would like to ensure these changes are compatible with how you intend to handle multi-loader support.

Changes I’ve prepared:

Unified the BlockItem instance to prevent registration mismatches.

Added ItemGroupEvents.modifyEntriesEvent to make the item visible in the Creative Menu.

Verified that these changes allow JEI to correctly index the item.

I would love to hear your thoughts on how to proceed or if you'd like me to submit a Pull Request with these fixes for the Fabric version.

Best regards!

[JSJBDEV]

Hi There!
Icebreakers is manually ported each time I make an update.

There was a period of time where it was unclear how to add items to the creative tabs in fabric (this I believe was just after the system changed from being an item registry thing to an event you had to listen to).

A few of my mods don't have creative tabs because I didn't consider that necessary since everyone uses JEI and I figured mainly uses survival, however in a lot of my mods recently I have had actually quite a few reports abouts this, I did not realize people would consider this a bug.

It is probably easier that I just do the creative tabs manually in both instances, but you are right I should have the forge version on github, so will update both these things over the current days.

I appreciate that you have created a solution to a problem you have found rather then just report it however 😄

[RomanFama592]

Thank you very much for your prompt response and for creating this mod!

It is actually very useful for my modded server. The main issue I encountered was with the Forge version, where the item wouldn't show up. In my server, many players aren't fully aware of every mod installed, so they rely heavily on JEI to discover items and recipes. Since the Ice Breaker wasn't appearing in JEI or the Creative Tab, players had no way of knowing how to craft or use it.

I have already modified the Fabric code (the version currently on GitHub) to fix this. I registered the BlockItem properly and injected it into the Functional Blocks tab using ItemGroupEvents. I decided to put it there because I agree that creating a dedicated tab for a single block is unnecessary, and "Functional Blocks" makes it easy for players to find.

If you could upload the Forge version source code to the repository, I would be more than happy to implement the same fix there and submit a Pull Request. This way, we can ensure the mod is user-friendly and fully compatible with JEI/Creative menus on both platforms.

Looking forward to your thoughts! Best regards.