Syncing BlockEntities between server and client, best practices.

[h3tR]

Hi,

I am working on a machine that crafts items in given amount of ticks.

I want to display the progress of the crafting on the screen but to do that I need to get the values stored on the blockentity at the server side.

I know I can use SimpleChannels and sending packets that way but it seems a little inefficient to send a packet every single tick (I can optimize it but it will still be sent very often.)
Do any of you know more efficient methods of doing this or do I use the method written above?

[ChampionAsh5357]

If you are talking about in a GUI, you can sync shorts (0 to 65535) to the client using `DataSlot`s. You simply need to set the value when it updates. Then, on the client (once you have the container add the `DataSlot`), you can read the synced value using `#get`. You can look at `AbstractFurnaceMenu` for an example.

[Luis_ST]

17 minutes ago, h3tR said:

I know I can use SimpleChannels and sending packets that way but it seems a little inefficient to send a packet every single tick (I can optimize it but it will still be sent very often.)
Do any of you know more efficient methods of doing this or do I use the method written above?

Does the data you need to send to the client change each tick?