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Okay, I'm just gonna kinda dive into this. I'm new to programming/java and am dabbling currently. I didn't/don't take courses on it, so I've only been learning through one book and whatever I can scrape off the internet. TL;DR I barely have any idea what I'm doing half the time.

I have PartsList and Mech.

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class PartsList {   
     
    // skeleton for all Parts
    public class framePart {
        public String prtName = null;
        public int prtCategory = 0;
        public int prtAP = 0;
        public int prtDEF = 0;
    }
       
    // ARMS
    // skeleton for all Arm Parts
    public class armPart extends framePart {
            public int prtATK = 0;
           
            public void set() {
                prtName = "Arm Part";
                prtCategory = 1;
            }
           
            public void stats() {
                System.out.println("Name: " + prtName);
                System.out.println("Cat: " + prtCategory);
                System.out.println("AP: " + prtAP);
                System.out.println("DEF: " + prtDEF);
                System.out.println("ATK: " + prtATK);
            }
    }
   
    //  Gatling Gun Arm Part
    public class gatlingGun extends armPart {
        @Override
        public void set() {
            super.set();
            prtName = "Gatling Gun";
            prtAP = 100;
            prtDEF = 25;
            prtATK = 100;
        }
    }
   
}

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class Mech  {
       
    public static void main(String[] args){
        PartsList pl = new PartsList();
        PartsList.armPart p1arm = pl.new armPart();
        PartsList.gatlingGun gGun = pl.new gatlingGun();
       
        gGun.set();
        gGun.stats();
        p1arm.stats();
    }

}
I need to change a bunch of things to make it work the way I want to anyway, but there's something I was expecting to work a certain way that isn't.

That is, the output I get is,

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Name: Gatling Gun
Cat: 1
AP: 100
DEF: 25
EVA: 5
ATK: 100
AMO: 3
Name: null
Cat: 0
AP: 0
DEF: 0
EVA: 0
ATK: 0
AMO: 0
the output I wanted to get would just be the first half repeated. As in, the armPart would have all its variables equal to gatlingGun. Instead I just get 0s.

It works that way if I take all the variable constructors(?) out and put them under PartsList, but I didn't want to do that. I mean, I could, but I'd like to know why this way isn't working.

I've directly called it writing makefiles for Java programs.