Patch Ordering

Inside of the patch file, there is a field called priority, which in general controls ordering of the patches.

NOTE

Priority is 1000 if not specified.

The lower the priority, the earlier it applies before others.

If the priority between two patches is equal, they apply based on alphabetical order for the resource location.

For example, custom:patches (which would be located in data/custom/defaulted/default_component_patches/patches.json) would apply after custom:amazing_patches, but before d:amazing_patches. If d:amazing_patches were to have a higher priority, say, 900 (assume default on the others), it would come before custom:patches AND custom:amazing_patches.

This should be kept in mind for how different datapacks utilising this system could interact.