See vanilla and everything else which uses plural named tags.

We've talked about this on the Cotton discord and one idea was to use singular for items that are identical (like CR tags, all copper ingots are identical). Plural would be for grouping items (all ingots, for example).

That said, I don't really mind using either format. There just has to be some convention about this.

I've been updating to 1.15.1 (see the PR). I did noticed that TechReborn also uses the singular tag name.

I could make a copy of all plural tags inherit their entires from the singular tags, but old mods would break/not function properly if for say TR moved to plural tags but other mods expect the singular tag and TR provides no singular tag to refer to/from.

I suppose we could set up some aliasing mechanism so the two can be used interchangeably. Just need some way to convert between singular and plural forms.

I think best is to stick with vanilla's naming and make everything plural. That's what would be intuitive for new modder instead of having to learn a new rule.

Changing now is going to be a right pita, you have given a good reason to do it the current way. It’s a minor detail as well

I agree, keeping them all plural would be simpler. It also gives us a key distinguishing factor between items and tags when looking at them in json configs.

Luckily, tags have this neat function where you can put a tag inside another tag!

That doesn't help as it only works one way. If you try to reference two tags inside each other the game crashes.

oh right, circular reference issues.

I could try to hack something together but I feel it would be too complicated for its own good.

The other option is just nuke the singular tags and move to plural (this would require mods like TechReborn to change their common tags and break every other mod which uses the recipes).

Also @modmuss50 it being a minor PITA right now is nothing compared to the pain it will be later down the road with even more fabric mods all with their own naming conventions. We've gotta follow vanilla on this or it will be a disaster.

I would be fine just nuking it to plurals and breaking now rather than later, the only mod i have which depends on CR optionally could easily have a small update pushed.

I think TR is the only mod this will be a big pain for due to the amount of recipes and tags

I don't think it would be that bad if you opened up every json file in npp at once and just replaced all the singular entries, I could do that mess in a pr if you want.

Adorn also has #c:stone_rod, but shouldn't be too hard to make plural (it's used in a lot of recipes, but a batch replace should work).

So I am going to shift to plural tags for 1.15.2 (snapshot season). Just putting this to notify @modmuss50 @Prospector and @Juuxel

(any objections please respond)

So we are using 1.15.2 as a deprecation step, in 1.16 we will remove the singular tags

Im happy to do this for 1.16 TR, will need to write a script to make the changes.