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I am running into an issue where a player can have several selection tools with a label inside their inventory, and i cannot tell which one the player tried to open.

I wish to store configuration data related to the item inside of it by mapping the number all items with label support and their descendants can have to somewhere in my global table, but regardless of that implementation there is currently simply just no way to tell which specific item the player opened.

There may not be an item if it was opened through the quickbar. So while it might be possible to add in the not-quickbar case, the quickbar case will still not work.

Hmm i see, since selection tools extend labels it might still have the item number right? if the mod stored that beforehand it might be able to resolve which entry in the mod's storage table it refers to, so if i assume right the event could always have the item number and optionally the stack?