I want to know how i can schedule changes to a blockstate after a certain amount of time. I want to change the blocks state of my block on right click after some seconds to render an animation during this time. How would i approach this?

Edited May 24, 20214 yr by DietmarKracht

any reason why using Java threads wouldn't work?

you could do:

new Thread(() -> {
  Thread.sleep(/* how long to wait in miliseconds */)
  /* do your logic here */
}).start();

 

So i solved this by using blockstates for the intermediate state where the block would not update and schedule a tick after the given amount of time. Then in the tick() method of the block i do my logic when the blockstate matches my intermediate state.

29 minutes ago, kiou.23 said:

any reason why using Java threads wouldn't work?

you could do:

new Thread(() -> {
  Thread.sleep(/* how long to wait in miliseconds */)
  /* do your logic here */
}).start();

 

"Freeze entire game while we wait for this block to update."
Yes, that's exactly what we want.

42 minutes ago, Draco18s said:

"Freeze entire game while we wait for this block to update."
Yes, that's exactly what we want.

Doesn't the thread run asynchronously? If not, my bad then, I apologize for the bad advice

The main server thread? Hell no. You sleep the main server thread, then water stops flowing, redstone stops updating, mobs stop moving, and players get disconnected due to a timeout.

Thread.Sleep() is almost never the solution to "I need to wait for something." Never never never never.

Edited May 24, 20214 yr by Draco18s

Ah yes, it is a newly spawned thread. I just saw the Thread.sleep part of things, because that's so commonly suggested and/or tried and "didn't work."