Get block the player is looking at

[matthew123]

I know about Minecraft.hitResult, but that is client-sided. How may I get the block the player is looking at from the server?

[Luis_ST]

i'm pretty sure there is a better solution for this,
but you could do your stuff on client then send a custom packet to the server

Edited November 27, 2021 by Luis_ST

[matthew123]

2 hours ago, Luis_ST said:

i'm pretty sure there is a better solution for this,
but you could do your stuff on client then send a custom packet to the server

I am doing this so players can't cheat. 

[OutCraft]

You could calculate it from the player's eyePos and his looking angle. I'm pretty sure you can get both on the server. But if you need to do this like every tick it could be resource intensive and lag the game

[matthew123]

1 hour ago, OutCraft said:

You could calculate it from the player's eyePos and his looking angle. I'm pretty sure you can get both on the server. But if you need to do this like every tick it could be resource intensive and lag the game

How so? A couple of trigonometric functions can't possibly affect performance.

[poopoodice]

The problem's about ray tracing and network packets every tick 0.0

Edited November 27, 2021 by poopoodice

[matthew123]

20 minutes ago, poopoodice said:

The problem's about ray tracing and network packets every tick 0.0

I am not sure I follow. I will only need to get the block position very rarely. How is this a problem?

[poopoodice]

We were talking about doing that every tick. You don't have to worry about it then since it's not a big issue anyways.