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Negative Item ID's?

Discussion in 'General discussion' started by MC ATECH, Mar 4, 2018.

  1. MC ATECH

    MC ATECH Baby Zombie

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    Hey all!
    I've recently found out that minecraft has ran out of ID's to give to items so in the new update they've decided to use negative ID's, what are your thoughts on this?
     
  2. SalmonDE

    SalmonDE Zombie Pigman

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    Does that, theoretically speaking, even make sense? I mean, if you go into the negative direction (signed integer), why not just use an unsigned integer?
     
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  3. dktapps

    dktapps Administrator Staff Member PMMP Team

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    Short thought: botch job.

    Longer thoughts: they should have done the job properly with string IDs like PC has instead of this negatives mess. From my sources I've heard that this will indeed happen in the future, but not yet.

    Block-items used to be all those items which had IDs 0-255. Since they can now have more than 256 blocks, they need somewhere else to register new block-items. The negative IDs thing is a hack specifically for block-items.
     
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  4. MC ATECH

    MC ATECH Baby Zombie

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    Maybe they're pushing the negative ids with the newer update just for the sake of it. Like the people at the top decide to not spend more time developing a better system but to just want to give the player more blocks to play around with instead.
     
  5. dktapps

    dktapps Administrator Staff Member PMMP Team

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    This system does have a "short-on-time" feel to it indeed. It's very much unfinished.
     
  6. MC ATECH

    MC ATECH Baby Zombie

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    They took a leaf out of Apples book! :p
     
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