So if you get an ingot from another mod and place it before oredict has converted it to a Gregtech type you get an ingot of type item.mod.metal…name for this example steel from immersive engineering’s blast furnace, gives an immersive engineering steel ingot which when placed give this ingot: [ima…

Yup, I somehow stored the Item reference in the NBT save function and THEN i unificated the stack, but used the item ID from that reference…