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I have a fairly simple question. In later versions of Forge -- 1.13 and 1.14 -- BlockTorch seems to have become separated into TorchBlock and WallTorchBlock. The former seems to be a vanilla torch placed on top of a block; the latter, a torch which is placed against a block. How would I create an item which places either a TorchBlock or WallTorchBlock depending on how it's placed? I've tried creating an item from a TorchBlock, which does place a block on a wall, but not beside it. Out of curiosity, I tried doing the same with a WallTorchBlock, but doing this simply crashes the game once the item is summoned. Is there an established way of handling this? A pointer to the part of the Minecraft source that handles this would also be useful -- I'm somewhat new to Java, and so I've been having trouble searching within my IDE. Thanks.

Gah. I’m an idiot, and apparently can’t read. Thank you so much — and I’ll take your advice into account. I noticed the harcoding too. I was trying to follow the tutorial I saw, which I imagine hardcoded to more clearly explain what was going on. I thought I could make the code more elegant if I could just get it to work, which, obviously, proved to my embarassment. I suppose I just copied and pasted code without being careful enough to change it. I apologize for being a moron. Thank you, again.

I'm new modding, so I've simply made a single block + item with no texture, following Mcjty's 1.14 tutorial. The game seems to load normally; however, when I use the /give command to give the item to the player, the game seems to crash. The crash log was quite unhelpful -- though I've attached it to this post, of course, it essentially just says "unexpected error occurred". Since the crash only occurs when the game has to interact with the item, I assume I've made some obvious and common mistake registering it, or else Eclipse or Gradle somehow aren't building Minecraft quite properly. Here is what I think the relevant code might be: Main mod class: FirstBlock.java ModBlocks.java Thank you kindly for any advice. crash-2019-07-08_20.26.20-client.txt