Solved Getting an item's natural name

Hello bukkiteers!

I'm currently working on a plugin where I need to turn an ItemStack into a player friendly string. The main issue comes for items with damage values. With a bit of formatting it's fine and easy to turn the Material Enum of most items into a good string, but items with damage values are much harder. I was hoping there might be a way to grab the natural name of an item. For example, I want the cocoa beans to be called cocoa beans instead of Ink_Sack:3 and I'd prefer mob spawn eggs be named after their mob name rather than a damage value.

The only way I can think to do this would involve an immense and inefficient amount of hard coding, so I would appreciate if someone could point me to a method that might accomplish what I seek.

 

It takes some dirty NMS code, but lucky for you I already did the dirty work:
https://gist.github.com/andrepl/98a69439f8c377ae01e1

 

thanks a bunch! I'll give it a try =)

 

If you use the translatableFrom* methods, and some raw Chat packets, you can let the client translate the strings into their own language too

 

metalhedd Thank's man, that's pretty useful.