Percy's Sewing Kit

Percy's Sewing Kit is a datapack with a few useful items to help you customise your elytra, armor, and items!

Percy’s Sewing Kit is compatible with Minecraft Realms. Whether you're playing in singleplayer, multiplayer, or on Realms, you'll have the same experience everywhere!

### Getting started To get started, you first need to craft a Sewing Kit.

The Sewing Kit is crafted by placing the following items in a crafting grid: - A bundle (undyed) - Shears - String - Lapis Lazuli

It's a shapeless crafting recipe, so it doesn't matter where you place the items in the crafting grid.

Inside your Sewing Kit, you'll find the following items: - Sewing Shears - Sewing String - Shimmering Lapis Lazuli

### Sewing Shears The Sewing Shears are used to change the model/texture of your item.

To use these special shears: 1. Rename any item to a namespaced ID of an item model definition in an anvil. I’ll cover namespaced IDs in more detail in the “Setting up your resourcepack” section. 2. Hold your renamed item in your offhand, and the Sewing Shears in your mainhand. 3. Interact with the Sewing Shears (right-click by default). 4. The item model of the item in your offhand will be updated, and the custom name you gave it will be removed.

Feel free to rename the item to anything you like after; it won’t affect the model until you repeat the steps above.

### Sewing String The Sewing String is used to change the equipment asset of your items. Equipment assets are the textures shown by armor, elytra, and more when worn on the body.

To use this special string: 1. Rename any item to a namespaced ID of an equipment asset in an anvil. In the section "Setting up your resourcepack" I'll dive into more detail on namespaced ID's. 2. Hold your renamed item in your offhand, and the Sewing String in your mainhand. 3. Interact with the Sewing String (right-click by default). 4. The item model of the item in your offhand, and its equipment asset, will be updated. The custom name you gave it will be removed.

Feel free to rename the item to anything you like after; it won’t affect the model or equipment asset until you repeat the steps above.

### Shimmering Lapis Lazuli Shimmering Lapis Lazuli can toggle the enchantment glint of items.

To use this special Lapis Lazuli: 1. Hold the Shimmering Lapis Lazuli in your mainhand, and the item of which you want to toggle the enchantment glint in your offhand. 2. Interact with the Shimmering Lapis Lazuli (right-click by default). 3. The enchantment glint of the item in your offhand will be toggled on or off.

### Setting up your resourcepack Before we get started with our resourcepack, it's important to understand that Minecraft makes a distinction between item models and equipment assets.

Item models are the models and textures that are shown in your inventory. Equipment assets are the textures that are shown on the player (and other mobs) when wearing armor and elytra.

The Sewing Shears set item models, the Sewing String sets equipment assets.

I've put together an example resourcepack to help you set up your own: (https://www.patreon.com/posts/percys-sewing-is-142403983)

#### Setting up item models In your resourcepack, item models are stored on this path: `assets//items/.json`. Here `` is the namespace of your resourcepack, and `` is the name of your item file.

As mentioned before, to get your item model on an item, you need to rename it to a namespaced ID. However, you don't need to fill in the entire path. This is because Percy's Sewing Kit uses Minecraft's `item_model` component, which directly references the items folder, so you only need to fill in `:`.

For example, you have a custom item model called `emerald_sword`, and the namespace for your resourcepack is `knights_of_emeralds`, you store your item model here: `assets/knights_of_emeralds/items/emerald_sword.json`, and rename your in-game item to `knights_of_emeralds:emerald`.

#### Setting up equipment assets The Sewing String is used to set equipment assets. But because it also sets the item models, there are a few catches. First, let's explain where equipment models are stored, then I'll go into how to set up item models for this specifically.

In your resourcepack, equipment assets are stored on this path: `assets//equipment/.json`. Here `` is the namespace of your resou