Essentials: Item glow

[Iwitrag]

Feature request

Feature description

I would like to spawn glowing itemstacks with Essentials X - but without any enchantment.

How the feature is useful

By item-glow admins could mark items with special purpose - like custom consumable items. They could do it simply by adding any enchantment - however with new Minecraft ability to disenchant any item this could lead to free XP.
That's why spawning item without any enchantment would be very useful and fancy.

Thank you

[pop4959]

I don't believe it is currently possible within the game to spawn itemstacks that have this property without enchantments. As such, this may not be feasible to add currently.

[Iwitrag]

I don't believe it is currently possible within the game to spawn itemstacks that have this property without enchantments. As such, this may not be feasible to add currently.

I don't know if something changed in terms of enchantments in 1.14.4, but I've seen items with glow but no enchantments on several servers running on 1.14.3.

[mdcfe]

I believe it is possible for the game to display stacks as glowing, but we need to look into what methods Bukkit provides for this.

[dashaw92]

ItemMeta has a method addItemFlags which allows you to customize how an itemstack is rendered by the client (https://hub.spigotmc.org/javadocs/spigot/org/bukkit/inventory/meta/ItemMeta.html#addItemFlags-org.bukkit.inventory.ItemFlag...-)

It would be trivial to add a command that adds/removes ItemFlag.HIDE_ENCHANTS to/from an itemstack. This flag removes the enchantment name and level from the lore, but keeps the enchantment glow visible for clients.

Not sure when this method was added, so that should be checked before moving forward with this.

[pop4959]

If that is the case then wouldn't an item still need an enchantment in order to have a glow? OP seems to indicate they want an item that does not have an actual enchantment and cannot be disenchanted for xp.

[JRoy]

This is possible but not only is this too niche and not essential, but it would also create edge cases the EssentialsX team wouldn't have any interest in supporting.