Predicate Based on Damage type for custom enchantments

[full wraith]

I'm trying to create a custom enchantment datapack that protects against a specific damage type such as magic, or indirect magic, etc. However when looking through the documentation of predicates, the closest thing that I was able to see that I could call is a "damage_source_properties" condition which only lets you make a predicate with "Damage type tags" which group several damage types together (I think).

My question is, is it possible to call a specific damage type or types individually instead of using the tag groups? And how would I go about doing that?

I also might fundamentally misunderstand how this is working since I'm very new at this. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

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[tropic brook]

You can make your own damage type tags

Which can of course just include a single damage type

[full wraith]

Ah okay that's good to know, are there any tutorials on how to do that?

[tropic brook]

No tutorials needed really, it's very easy. You make a JSON file in data/<namespace>/tags/damage_type, and fill it with the list of values you want it to contain, like any other tag

You can use Misode to help generate the contents
https://misode.github.io/tags/damage-type/

[full wraith]

So to confirm, something along the lines of this?

[tropic brook]

You don't want/need the {} bits inside the values list, you can just list each type as strings directly

[full wraith]

also would this be under minecraft/tags or would I need to put this under mpe and then add a tags folder, ah apologies I'm a bit tired lol

[tropic brook]

That syntax is for if you want an entry to be optional for the file to successfully validate, such as if there was a modded damage type you wanted it to be compatible with without requiring that mod for the pack to work otherwise

[tropic brook]

I recommend putting it in your own namespace, not the minecraft namespace

[full wraith]

ah ok

[tropic brook]

Generally you should only put things in the minecraft namespace if you're overwriting a vanilla file

[full wraith]

Good to know, so like this instead?

[tropic brook]

Looks right

[full wraith]

awesome, thank you so much! Never would've been able to find this through google haha