Solved Chest Names

Is there a way to add a name or lore to a chest? Anyone heard of doing this?

 

wizzinangel
Do you mean a Lore and a Name for the Item, then yes.
If you mean a name for the Inventory, then yes as well.
But if you mean like a little Text bar above the Chest like the Player's name tags, then no...

 

I believe you actually can add a name above the chests.

 

Yes you can, if you try to make a custom inventory use this:

Code:java

Bukkit.getServer().createInventory(
                null,
                9,
                "Name");

The 9 means the amount of slots (max is 36).

Goodluck

 

^
No you can't, without mods.
You can't make a Name Tag above the Chest block.
But like I said he can change the Name of the Item and the Inventory

 

There are ways to do it.

 

Mathias Eklund
Yea, you could make an invisible mob with a Custom name at the Position of the chest though...

 

It is definitely do-able (see dungeonrealms.net server, their custom personal shop system can have names above the chest). It's probably done with invisible entities at the position of the chest, as mrCookieSlime said.

 

I'd say this topic is solved as he got his answer.

 

If you want to actually rename a chest instead of using a custom inventory:

Code:java

 
   public static void setChestName(Location loc, String name)
   {
       try
       {
           loc.getBlock().setType(Material.CHEST);
 
           Field inventoryField = CraftChest.class.getDeclaredField("chest");
           inventoryField.setAccessible(true);
           TileEntityChest teChest = ((TileEntityChest) inventoryField.get((CraftChest) loc.getBlock().getState()));
           teChest.a(name);
       }
       catch (Exception e)
       {
           e.printStackTrace();
       }
   }
 

This does use NMS and reflection so use at your own risk. Also you would have to use the craftbukkit.jar in addition to the bukkit.jar in your build path.

 

Thanks guys