Accessor Mixins

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Accessor Mixins are special mixins defined as interfaces which must only contain @Accessor and @Invoker handlers. Unlike normal mixins however, Accessor Mixins are accessible via user code directly.

The @Accessor and @Invoker annotations allow you to access fields or invoke methods that are not visible (private) or mutable (final).

Unlike typical injectors, accessors do not prefix the merged methods with the modid of the mod that contains them. Additionally as the Accessor Mixins are used in user code, the names of the handlers are not mangled, these differences are important to keep in mind when writing Accessor Mixins for compatibility and debugging purposes.

@Accessors and @Invokers can infer the field/method name if they are called getFieldName / call/invokeMethodName, omitting the requirement for the value attribute to be specified, however, all handlers should be prefixed as so: modid$getFieldName instead. This is because when the Accessor Mixin is merged the handler will remain unchanged and if there is a problem related to the handler, it's useful to know who owns it. Additionally, if another mod decides to create a Duck interface with a method called getFieldName, when that is merged alongside your Accessor Mixin whichever one applies last will overwrite the other and you end up with a conflict that may crash or cause unintended behaviour.

@Accessor allows you to access or mutate fields. Suppose we want to access itemUseCooldown field of MinecraftClient class.

@Mixin(MinecraftClient.class)
public interface MinecraftClientAccessor {
    @Accessor("itemUseCooldown")
    int modid$getItemUseCooldown();
}

Usage:

int itemUseCooldown = ((MinecraftClientAccessor) MinecraftClient.getInstance()).modid$getItemUseCooldown();

@Mixin(MinecraftClient.class)
public interface MinecraftClientAccessor {
    @Accessor("itemUseCooldown")
    void modid$setItemUseCooldown(int itemUseCooldown);
}

Usage:

((MinecraftClientAccessor) MinecraftClient.getInstance()).modid$setItemUseCooldown(100);

When the field is final and you need to set it, use @Mutable as well. Note that this may not work as expected if the field is set to a constant literal value in its initializer, such as 42 or “Hello World”. This is because the compiler inlines constant fields.

VanillaLayeredBiomeSource no longer exists since 1.18, this example cannot be directly replicated on recent versions.
Suppose we want to access the BIOMES field of VanillaLayeredBiomeSource class.

@Mixin(VanillaLayeredBiomeSource.class)
public interface VanillaLayeredBiomeSourceAccessor {
  @Accessor("BIOMES")
  static List<RegistryKey<Biome>> modid$getBiomes() {
    throw new AssertionError();
  }
}

Usage:

List<RegistryKey<Biome>> biomes = VanillaLayeredBiomeSourceAccessor.modid$getBiomes();

@Mixin(VanillaLayeredBiomeSource.class)
public interface VanillaLayeredBiomeSourceAccessor {
  @Accessor("BIOMES")
  static void modid$setBiomes(List<RegistryKey<Biome>> biomes) {
    throw new AssertionError();
  }
}

Usage:

VanillaLayeredBiomeSourceAccessor.modid$setBiomes(biomes);

When the field is final and you need to set it, use @Mutable as well. Note that this may not work as expected if the field is set to a constant literal value in its initializer, such as 42 or “Hello World”. This is because the compiler inlines constant fields.

@Invoker allows you to access methods. Suppose we want to invoke teleportTo method of EndermanEntity class.

@Mixin(EndermanEntity.class)
public interface EndermanEntityInvoker {
  @Invoker("teleportTo")
  boolean modid$invokeTeleportTo(double x, double y, double z);
}

Usage:

EndermanEntity enderman = ...;
((EndermanEntityInvoker) enderman).modid$invokeTeleportTo(0.0D, 70.0D, 0.0D);

This example is not fully accurate to latest versions, registerPotionType exists now within the Builder nested class within BrewingRecipeRegistry
Suppose we want to invoke registerPotionType method of BrewingRecipeRegistry class.

@Mixin(BrewingRecipeRegistry.class)
public interface BrewingRecipeRegistryInvoker {
  @Invoker("registerPotionType")
  static void modid$invokeRegisterPotionType(Item item) {
    throw new AssertionError();
  }
}

Usage:

BrewingRecipeRegistryInvoker.modid$invokeRegisterPotionType(item);