right, I agree. Another thing that annoys me is that you can't in vanilla attach a metal tool head to a bone handle. With all of this I get why they don't do it, with so much to code things get overlooked or proriatized lower and different people have different opinions on what makes sense. But for me at least if I find bone handles are stronger I for sure would use it with metal tool heads. With this mod you can do that with the bone shovels

This should really be part of the base game as I don't understand why you can haft a bone axe but not a bone shovel?

It's one of the glaring 'holes' in the tech tree along with iron and steel spears.

wow lol yup thats it. I was in such a hurry to get onto working on my other mod I missed the opening and closing brackets. Thanks guys!

Its because your lang file is missing the closing and opening brackets, i.e
{

'lang field entries here'
}

Brady_The

I changed the lang file on my side to say "item-shovel-*": "Bone Shovel" but its still not showing up right. I then tried ""item-shovel-*": "Bone Shovel"" and it's still not renamed right. You sound like you know what your talking about so I am going to have to assume something else is screwing up my ability to get the name to change but I don't know what.

Small tip for the langfile: Change ""boneshovel:item-shovel-chert": "Bone Shovel"" into ""item-shovel-*": "Bone Shovel"".

The domain (boneshovel) is not needed, because the lang folder is within your mod folder, which means that your language definitions are only applied to your modded items. Leaving it shouldn't break anything, though.

The "chert" part in your current lang file means that "Bone Shovel" is only applied to the shovel made with a chert rock shovel head. Replacing it with a wildcard character (*) means, that any item that follows the naming "item-shovel-x" within your mod domain (boneshovel) will be called Bone Shovel.

If you would want to give every single type of modded shovel an individual name, based on the material of the shovel head, you would have to add all variants to the language file, replacing "chert" in your example with all the other shovel head materials.