Attempting making a block with health/durability

[FireTamer81]

As the name implies I am trying to make a block with a "condition" value. I am doing this because I will be adding future features where a very strong type of block would be useful.

I have started out with making a simple custom blockstate property (1-4) which determines the model (Polished, Un-polished, scuffed, cracked). However, I want those 4 states to then be determined by a larger number (more wiggle room with how much damage a certain event can do to this type of block). I was thinking 3000-5000, which I can then say "oh the block durability has to be at 200 to be cracked, but 750 for scuffed". I think the large health number think could be done with a tile entity

I also want certain states to be maintained even after it has been picked up such as the larger number (maybe not the 1-4 since I think I would have to do something funky with datagen for my 90 items to have 360 item models), so perhaps NBT (which I have never done before).

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I could probably figure this out on my own given a good bit of time, but dual-enrollment does not allow much time in a day. So, basically just looking either for a github repos that shows persistent data & some funky tile entities (if that is the best route for the block health thing), or suggestions.

 

 

[Draco18s]

You probably want a TileEntity.

[FireTamer81]

Okay, that's what I thought. So now I just need to figure out how to do the health within the tile entity, and then make it persist even when broken using NBT.

I do have one question though:

          The idea is that this will be a general building block (semi-hard to craft though), so will each of the blocks having a tile entity and all of this stuff affect performance a notable amount, or not because it is fairly simple?

 

[Draco18s]

Yes. There are functions for that. Look at the shulker box.