Bug with recipes not working / Items not craftable

Sometimes the recipe of an item is not working. It needs to be “reset” with /rpgitem ITEM recipe 1 to work again. I can’t say what causes this bug, as it just happens randomly. We are not restarting the server or make any changes to the server. The bug occurs with just the server running normally.

Version: 1.11-v3.5.275

[cyilin]

@Formula350 RPGItems use color codes to store item id and durability

[Formula350]

That’s actually a thing I’ve been experiencing for years now, and yes it’s INCREDIBLY annoying. Where it bites me in the ass is with the Quests plugin. Usually when we create a quest that requires an RPGItem (which is quite often) we’ll just use the /rpgitem <item> give to have it on hand for input… Unfortunately, the issue ends up being that when a player comes to try and hand their item in, the Quests plugin is like “Sorry, this isn’t the item the NPC is looking for…” which of course causes frustration to no end for staff and players.

Curiously though, I had within the last week made a couple items and one of them just so happened to be an upgrade much like you’re doing. For the upgrade recipe, it too utilized the crafted RPGItem in the center of the recipe; however, I’ve yet to hear anyone have a problem with crafting the upgrade, despite the first “crafted” item I used in the recipe being acquired via the give-command. I’ll have to do some testing to see if I can see if that happens to me, as well.

I can indeed confirm that it’s an issue with RPGItems, and has been forever. The problem, as far as I’ve been able to determine over the years, is just in the Display and Hand/Type entries, as the difference between rpgitems-given and crafted are a bunch of random colorcode padding that is added/removed from the metadata. In the case of the Hand/Type, it’s at the beginning and end of that lore line.
–Example taken from the Quests.yml file, which was ‘added’ to the plugin using the in-game quest creation system while holding the item in your hand (bold colorcode are the plugin-added padding, the rest was added by me during creation):

- name-STONE_SWORD:amount-1:displayname-§0§0§0§0§0§0§7§1§6§l§eStar§r of the §4Nether:lore-§0§0§0§0§0§0§7§1§fTwo handed Claymore §c§a§f§e§0§0§0§0:lore-§f15-20 Damage:lore-§a50% chance to apply wither:lore-§aGrants regeneration 2 for 8.0s:lore-§e§o"The brightest point visible from within:lore-§e§othe Nether, forged into a mighty:lore-§e§osword.":lore-§7[Hit enemy to trigger Wither 2]:lore-§f§a[Right-click to activate Regeneration 2]:lore-§fCraftable §6Legendary Weapon

To be honest, I don’t even know why RPGItems even adds a bunch of extra color codes to the front of the item name… Unless it’s used by RPGItems to recognize (authenticate) it as an RPGItem and not just some vanilla player-created item?