Was block natural or placed?[Solved]

[darkness3608]

I am pretty sure that minecraft has something like this, and I wanted to know if there is variable or boolean function to get this. Isn't it used in gravel or something like that so you don't get infinite flint? Just wondering where the function is, I thought for a second that block.getEnableStats() would work but it didn't work.

 

 

[mardiff]

I'm pretty sure that gravel doesn't use this considering that you can get flint from breaking a block that you placed...

[darkness3608]

Oh dang, I think it used to do it that way. Interesting. Guess ill rework my idea some then. (didn't think that infinite flint would be possible) never worked when I tried it before. Oh well haha

 

Thanks

[mardiff]

It might have been implemented with Equivalent Exchange or some other mod so it wasn't OP, but I don't think vanilla really cares if you have unlimited flint.

[Draco18s]

Vanilla makes no distinctions between placed and natural blocks.

[KGS]

I can imagine a hack for this.

 

Seeing that you only occasionally will want to investigate whether a block is natural or placed, you can use an octree structure. The octree would represent the status of some particular block as a boolean where the tree would simply return "false" if a search finds no node at that point.

 

The big problem is how to update the octree whenever a player places a block. There might be a block placement event or something like that you can use. Whenever that event is triggered, update the tree.