Languages

Currently available languages

Messages GUIs: 
    Czech cz
    German de
    English en
    Spanish es
    French fr
    Italian it
    Japanese jp
    Korean ko
    Dutch nl
    Portuguese pt
    Polish pl
    Russian ru
    Turkish tr
    Thai th
    Chinese zh_cn
Dictionaries (items): 
    English en
    Spanish es
    French fr
    Hebrew he
    Italian it
    Portuguese pt
    Russian ru
    Thai th
    Turkish tr
    Chinese zh_cn

Translate commands and messages

You just have to open lang folder create a copy of en.yml, then translate it and change the lang setting in config.yml to your file name.

config.yml

config_files:
  lang: 'en'
  dictionaries-lang: 'en'

Minecraft language files

You can easily overwrite Minecraft default translation files.

This supports:

• items names

• items lore

• entity names

• chat messages

The main difference between ItemsAdder dictionaries and Minecraft language files is how they adapt to player settings. Minecraft language files dynamically adjust based on each player's selected language. In contrast, ItemsAdder dictionaries are static, meaning all players see the same language text, as defined in the config.yml file (e.g., en).

Example: custom esc menu return button text

In this example I will change the Return to game text of ESC menu.

info:
  namespace: ia_various_configs
minecraft_lang_overwrite:
  esc_menu_texts:
    entries:
      "menu.returnToGame": "Return to &aSurvival &fGamemode"
    languages:
      - ALL

languages

The languages property is used to list all the languages where you want to change the text. You should set it to only the languages of your playerbase, but I decided to set it to ALL so you will be sure that everyone can see the custom text despite their decided clientside language.

entries

It's the list of translated texts. You can find the complete list here.

Example: custom item name translation

info:
  namespace: ia_various_configs
minecraft_lang_overwrite:
  my_translations_all:
    entries:
      "my_custom_items.my_sword.name": "My Sword"
    languages:
      - ALL
  my_translations_french:
    entries:
      "my_custom_items.my_sword.name": "Mon épée"
    languages:
      - fr_fr
  my_translations_italian:
    entries:
      "my_custom_items.my_sword.name": "La Mia Spada"
    languages:
      - it_it

info:
  namespace: special_items
items:
  my_sword:
    name: <lang:my_custom_items.my_sword.name>
    permission: my_sword
    resource:
      material: DIAMOND_SWORD
      generate: true
      textures:
      - item/my_sword.png
    durability:
      max_custom_durability: 1324

Use the special property <lang:NAME> to specify the translation entry (uses Minimessage).

ItemsAdder dictionary

This supports:

• items names

• items lore

• /ia menu categories names

Create your own translation for your new items

To create your own translations for your own items you just have to create new files (one per language) in a new folder inside ItemsAdder/contents/, for example ItemsAdder/contents/myitems/configs/dictionaries/.

This is how it looks like:

info:
  namespace: special_items_lang
  dictionary-lang: "fr"
dictionary:
  display-name-my_sword: épée de saleté
  display-name-my_item: j'aime la baguette

And this is how my items file looks like:

info:
  namespace: special_items
items:
  my_sword:
    name: display-name-my_sword
    permission: my_sword
    resource:
      material: DIAMOND_SWORD
      generate: true
      textures:
      - item/my_sword.png
    durability:
      max_custom_durability: 1324

As you can see I set the nameto display-name-my_sword, this will tell IA to replace the text with text from the dictionary, so sword would be named épée de saleté.

You can skip the translation part and do this directly, but this won't allow you to easily translate items in the future if you need to.

info:
  namespace: special_items
items:
  my_sword:
    display_name: "épée de saleté"
    permission: my_sword
    resource:
      material: DIAMOND_SWORD
      generate: true
      textures:
      - item/my_sword.png
    durability:
      max_custom_durability: 1324