Better Item Viewer - JEI

This projects adds a gui for all items in the game, similar to Just Enough Items JEI in minecraft. All item details, as well as recipes and item usages, are displayed in a side panel. You can view all items from specific mods, categories, tags, or simply search them by their name. You can use it to compare weapon (and other item) stats, which are otherwise not viewable in the game.

Features

Item Details

You can click on any item in the item list to pull up the item detail side panel, which includes the following information:

• All Item Recipes
• All Recipes that an Item is used in
• Mining Tool Stats
• Armor Stats
• Weapon Damage
  • A list of all attacks and their respective damage values
  • Item stat modifier details (Signature details, Extra Ammo, …)
  • Works on all kind of weapons (swords, axes, daggers, spears, mace, bow, …)
• Mob Loot (what mobs drop that item)
• General Stats
  • Durability
  • Max Stack Size
  • Item Quality
  • Mod origin

Recipes

You can browse all item recipes by clicking on the item. You can also click on any recipe ingredient to get details about that item. You can click on recipe input tags to view all items that can be used to craft that recipe.

Giving Items

If you are in creative mode, or are a server operator, you can right-click on any item in the item list, or click on the "Give Item" / "Give Stack" button in the item detail section to add that item to your hotbar / inventory.

Filters

There are many different filters you can use to narrow down the list of items you are looking at. All of these filters can be combined arbitrarily. You can also use the search bar in the top right to further narrow down the results. By prefixing a search with # you can search by item tags (this is also used for displaying the available items for item tags in recipes)

Mods

If you select a specific mod in the Mods section the item section will only show items that have been registered by that mod. This is great for figuring out what content a mod adds and gather details about its items.

Categories

There are more than 30 different categories of items that you can filter by. You can either filter by main categories, like Items, Tool, Blocks or you can click on any of their subcategories for finer control of the filtered items.

Craftable

You can also filter items to only include any that have a recipe to craft them. Or alternatively all items without a recipe.

How to Access

There are currently 3 different ways to access the item viewer. All of them have their pros and cons and can be configured by modpack creators and server owners to fit their needs.

Commands

The mod adds a simple /betteritemviewer command to open the gui from anywhere. The command also has some aliases to make it easier to run the command. The aliases are /biv and /jei!

The commands are simple, but not very convenient.

Keybind

If you press the Left Alt key on your keyboard the gui will also open. The mod has to overwrite Hytales Walking keybind to achieve this behavior. If you don't want this you can disable the keybind in the gui. Server owners / modpack creators can choose to completely disable this functionality by adjusting the mod config.

Please not that it is not possible to change this keybind. Hytale doesn't provide any systems for registering custom keybinds, so we have to hack our way around this limitation!

Recipe Book

The mod also adds a recipe book item, which you can right-click to open the gui. This book is currently not obtainable in survival. It can be used by modpack creators or server owners to give a convenient option for players to use the mod.

If you want to create your own item that opens the gui you can do so by adding the OpenBetterItemViewer interaction to its interactions.

"Interactions": {
    "Secondary": {
        "Interactions": [
            {
                "Type": "OpenBetterItemViewer"
            }
        ]
    }
}

Make it yours

You can change the mods config at mods/Drex_BetterItemViewer/BetterItemViewer.json to configure the mod to your liking.

This is the current default config of the mod, with some comments briefly explaining what each option does

{
  // The default value of the keybind setting (when set to true the keybind will be automatically enabled for all new players)
  "DefaultAltKeyBind": true,
  // true = The /biv command is no longer accessible
  "DisableCommand": false,
  // true = The keybind is completely disabled (for everyone)
  "DisableKeybind": false,
  // true = The mod filter option in the gui is removed
  "DisableModFilter": false,
  // true = The "Show Creator Info" toggle in the gui is removed
  "DisableCreatorInfoSetting": false,
  // true = The "Show Hidden Items" toggle in the gui is removed
  "DisableHiddenItemsSetting": false,
  // A list of qualities that will be hidden when "Show Hidden Items" is not enabled in the gui
  "HiddenQualities": [
    "Technical",
    "Tool",
    "Developer"
  ]
}