Mod "Not Enough Items" is an amazing mod with which you can see the craft of literally any item or item in the game. In addition to all these privileges, it is also worth saying that this mod creates an excellent graphical interface for us, and makes it possible to change the game mode and get blocks of different structure. Thanks to this modification, players can change the time of day, for example, day or night, it all depends on the preferences of the person who will play this game. If you do not want to play with cheats, and you have few lives under interesting circumstances, then you should not worry, as the developers made it possible to add life to yourself with a simple click on the button in the menu section.
Actually, this mod was made for novice players who want to try themselves in the world of Minecraft, since you can get all the items after using crafting, that is, when you need to take a pickaxe, the menu shows only a recipe for obtaining the desired tool. But that's not all, if you can't find some item in the "Not Enough Items" section of the mod, then you can use the search, which is located at the bottom of the screen. In addition to the search window, there is also another interesting window needed to enter the number of items you need, which is very convenient and simplifies the gameplay. To understand the updates in more detail, we suggest playing the game a little using this high-quality and very interesting mod.
One of the most popular and useful modification among the players, which adds a new interface to the game. This interface has a bunch of buttons and super useful features that will make the game really easy, especially if you are new to Minecraft. You can download the Not Enough Items mod (or NEI for short) for the following versions of the game: 1.9.4, 1.8. 1.7.10, 1.7.2, 1.6.4 and 1.5.2.
This add-on has a huge arsenal of useful features that will greatly simplify the interaction with the game world, and especially with all the available items.
NEI can be called one of the most convenient and cool ones that allow you to quickly see the crafting recipe for any available item in MineCraft. As for me, this addon feature is the most useful and important.
Not Enough Items adds a large window that displays all the game items (reminiscent of a recipe book). The modification has 2 modes: Cheat Mod and Recipe Mod. If you are in cheat mode, then to learn the recipe for crafting an item, it is necessary to point at it and press the R button. By clicking the left button on the selected item, it will be in your inventory. If you are in Recipe mode, then it is enough left click on the desired item and a window with its crafting recipe will open.
Also, the mod allows you to search for the necessary items by name (unfortunately only in English) in the search bar, which is located at the bottom. With this feature of the NEI mod, any MineCraft player can quickly find the necessary item and take it for themselves, or find out how it is crafted.
The mod also adds some new buttons which are located in the top left corner. Below I will explain what each of them does.
Also, the Not Enough Items mod for Minecraft adds sorting of all items into categories. To do this, you need to hover over the ItemSubSets button and after that all available categories will appear. With this function, you can quickly find items for a specific purpose, for example.
Not Enough Items this is not just a mod, but a whole collection of mods! Downloading NEI you will get a convenient search for items and their recipes, as well as be able to restore health, control the game mode and the weather. You can select several modes of operation, the so-called cheating to give yourself items, change the weather, etc. and the recipe view mode, you can only view recipes. This modification is used in minecraft assemblies, as it shows recipes for things added by third-party mods. Also for Not Enough Items, addons are being created that expand the functionality.
If you did everything right, the interface will change and you will be able to give yourself items on click.
Convenient crafting of any blocks.
Fast item enchantment.
All recipes are always at hand.
Support for recipes from any mods.
Quick search by name.
Multiplayer support.
There are 2 functions in the recipe overview: Recipes and Application. Pressing the recipe ("R" default) or application ("U" default) button while hovering over an object will open the respective display mode. In the recipe window itself, left-clicking on an ingredient will open its recipe window, and right-clicking it will open the application window. The back button ("BACKSPACE" by default) will display the previous recipe, and the Esc or inventory key will close the window.
The recipe overview displays all the possible ways to craft an object, whether crafting at a workbench, in a furnace, in a brewing rack, or with any added crafting method (for example, a smelting furnace in the RP2 mod).
Hidden Object Window:
The search box is a black rectangle at the bottom of the screen. The items panel will display only those objects whose name contains the text entered in the search box. To enter text, you need to click on the rectangle. Right-clicking will instantly clear the search box. Keyboard case does not matter. Each search text is stored in memory and loaded again when the game is restarted.
Enchant window:
By pressing the enchant key ("X" by default), you will open the enchant window interface. Here you can add an item to and select an available enchantment for it and its level. The level can be raised to a maximum of X (10). Clicking on an enchantment turns it on and off. (To eliminate unpleasant bugs) There are conflicting rules for different enchantments, so you cannot add, for example, Luck and Silk Touch to one item. Unfortunately, due to limited space, some names may be shortened. For example, Protection will be abbreviated to Protect if set to level 8, since "VIII" takes up a lot of space.
Creative mode:
Clicking the C button will launch creative mode. Everything is obvious here. Pressing the button simply changes the mode from creative to survival and vice versa. Please note that only your game mode will change on the SMP server, not the entire server.
Rain:
Here, too, everything is clear. If it's raining, the button will be available. Clicking on it will stop the rain.
Magnetism:
The last of the switches. If magnetism is on, all nearby objects will fly towards you. Although it won't work if the inventory is full.
The button with the image of the heart will increase the health and hunger of the player, as well as get rid of burning.
Save slots:
There are 7 save slots that allow you to save all of your inventory and armor. Right-clicking will rename the slot. An “x” button appears next to the recorded slot, clicking on it will clear the slot. Save slots are global and can be used across different worlds and servers.
Button cheat mode toggles between Cheat Mode and Recipe Mode. Recipe mode is for fair play and only displays recipes. Save slots and switches are not available in it, and the item panel does not allow you to add an item to your inventory.
Extra Cheats determines whether the Create, Rain, Magnet, Time and Heal buttons will be available.
Button Style toggles the button display between the default Minecraft style and the old style of the Too Many Items mod (shown below).
This button has three modes: Shown (display), Auto and Hidden (hide). Auto will only display item IDs if the NEI mod itself is enabled.
This setting has the additional function of displaying the exact damage of an item. For example, the sapphire pickaxe in the picture below has taken 6 points of damage.
If Item drops is disabled, all dropped items will be removed. So the item that is mined or thrown out of the inventory automatically disappears. This setting was added to get rid of lags.
Hotkeys work as usual. Click on them and press the key you want to set.
Mob spawners:
NEI makes all types of spawners available in your inventory and for placement in the game. All mobs added with mods also have a spawner available. The inventory spawner displays its contents in the same way as blocks. Hostile mobs are displayed in red, and passive ones in blue. A bug in multiplayer where all spawners were displayed with pigs inside has been fixed. Any user with NEI set (even if they are not an admin) on a server with NEI will display spawners correctly.
SMP:
Everything that can be done in single player mode is also available in multiplayer if NEI is installed on the server. If the mod is not installed on the server, you can still add items to your inventory using the give command as an admin. Most features are only available to admins.
Configuration file:
Many NEI settings are available in the "configNEI.cfg" file. But most of them can be changed in the mod's options menu.
Server configurations:
A configuration file "configNEIServer.cfg" will be created along with the server, containing various server settings. The comments in the file explain the available functions. In short, with the help of a file, you can endow a certain player with certain functions. So, for example, you can decide who should use admin-only enchantments, etc. There is also a section of prohibited blocks - these blocks will not appear in the user's items panel. By default, admin is disabled, so it is not available to players (unless you add their name to the exceptions).
Extended API:
NEI has an extended API built in, which allows you to correctly integrate other mods. This is demonstrated with the RedPower module, which adds smelter recipes and special item categories.
Of course, there are plenty of other crafting options too, such as the BTW anvil, a bunch of stuff in IC2, etc. However, only the smelting furnace from the RedPower mod is used in the mod. However, the author of NEI suggests that modders create small modules like RedPower.
The source code should help modders navigate. NEI uses a configuration loading system like ModLoader. Just refer to your configuration class NEI****Config.class and package IConfigureNEI with your mods. Any reference to the NEI must be through this class or subclasses. Your mod should not directly call NEI functions or classes, as this will make the mod's operation dependent on NEI. Just add a config file and classes to your mod and it will work with NEI installed.