How to store data into Data entities

[ItzPray]

I am trying to store the player that placed down the block as soon as it gets placed down so whenever a player interacts with the block it will check if that player is the owner or not. Is there anyway to add data to the Block Entity and have it saved in that block to be checked whenever anyone interacts with it?

[Luis_ST]

20 minutes ago, ItzPray said:

Is there anyway to add data to the Block Entity and have it saved in that block to be checked whenever anyone interacts with it?

You can use a Capability, take a look at this FCW page for more infos

[ItzPray]

44 minutes ago, Luis_ST said:

You can use a Capability, take a look at this FCW page for more infos

I looked at it for a while and I tried to implement it but it cant figure out how to get it to work. Is there anyway you can give me an example of how I can do this with Capabilities? It would be greatly appreciated.

[Luis_ST]

Show what you have tried.

[warjort]

You only need a capability if you want to do it for other people's block entities.

 

If its your BlockEntity, you can just store the player's UUID in your block entity

You can see how ConduitBlockEntity does this to remember its "destroy target".

For actually changing the data in your block entity at placement see something like: AbstractBannerBlock.setPlacedBy()

[ItzPray]

20 minutes ago, warjort said:

You only need a capability if you want to do it for other people's block entities.

 

If its your BlockEntity, you can just store the player's UUID in your block entity

You can see how ConduitBlockEntity does this to remember its "destroy target".

For actually changing the data in your block entity at placement see something like: AbstractBannerBlock.setPlacedBy()

Yes I am trying to set the data in my BlockEntity. I am trying to store the players UUID in my block Entity on place. Is it just as simple as setting a variable in that block entity to the players uuid or is there more too it? If you could show an example i would love that.

[warjort]

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 Is it just as simple as setting a variable in that block entity to the players uuid

 

Yes.

You also need to load/save it, see the Conduit block. That's why you use the UUID, you can store that in NBT.