Timer not working...

[Naiakoa]

In my mod I got a small boss fight that spawns a random 3D object in the world within 10 blocks from the player, the same player runs to said object and right clicks it. It will have 1 out of 10 choices to see if the player gains a helpful buff or not that lasts for 1 or 4 minutes. After that the object gets deleted from the world and is disabled by setting a public variable to true so that the object cannot be used anymore.

 

Now here is the problem, the object is suppose to be re-enabled for use after 10 seconds but for some reason I cannot get a countdown timer from 10 seconds to re-enable the changed variable...Here is the object class file with the timer in it.

 

 

public class BlockHarkar extends BlockNXD

{

    private Random rand = new Random(3);

    public static boolean alreadyExecuted = false; //sets the variable to false by default so that said object can be used

 

    static int interval;

    static Timer timer;

 

    public BlockHarkar(int id)

{

 

        super(id, Material.rock);

        this.setUnlocalizedName(Strings.Harkar);

        this.setCreativeTab(Nexion.nBlocks);

        this.setHardness(5F);

        this.setBlockBounds(0.1F, 0.0F, 0.1F, 0.9F, 1.0F, 0.9F);

    }

 

    @Override

    public boolean renderAsNormalBlock() {

 

        return false;

    }

 

    @Override

    public boolean isOpaqueCube() {

 

        return false;

    }

 

    @Override

    public int getRenderType() {

 

        return RenderIds.HarkarRenderId;

    }

 

    public boolean onBlockActivated(World par1World, int par2, int par3, int par4, EntityPlayer par5EntityPlayer, int par6, float par7, float par8, float par9)

    {

            //int i = rand.nextInt(3);

        switch(rand.nextInt(3))

        {

            case 1: //give more hp for player for a duration of 1 minute

            {

                if(!alreadyExecuted)

                {

                    par5EntityPlayer.addPotionEffect(new PotionEffect(Potion.field_76434_w.id, 1200, 4));

                    alreadyExecuted = true; //disables the orb and prevents the buff from double stacking

                    par1World.setBlockToAir(par2, par3, par4);

                }

            }

            case 2: //Player is refused of an ability

            {

                if(!alreadyExecuted)

                {

                    par5EntityPlayer.addChatMessage(EnumChatFormatting.RED + "The God Spirit Harkar Looks down upon you..." + alreadyExecuted);

                    alreadyExecuted = true; //disables the orb and prevents the buff from double stacking

                    par1World.setBlockToAir(par2, par3, par4);

                }

            }

        }

        return true;

    }

 

    public static void main(String[] args) //current not working timer system

    {

            int period = 1000;

 

            timer = new Timer();

            interval = 20;

 

            System.out.println(interval);

            timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new TimerTask()

            {

 

                public void run()

                {

                    System.out.println(setInterval());

                }

            }, 1000, period);

    }

    private static final int setInterval()

    {

        if(interval == 1)

        {

            alreadyExecuted = false; //Does not work

        }

        System.out.println(alreadyExecuted);

        return --interval;

    }

}

 

 

And for some reason in a new blank project in eclipse the timer works FLAWLESSLY and yet in minecraft it refuses to even start the countdown...

 

Also note I do not wish to use Thread.sleep for that will cause the whole minecraft game to sleep for X seconds set, I do not want this. It needs to be some kind of timer system where the player still fights the boss and so forth.

[Draco18s]

Don't use timers....

 

Count ticks.

 

Even if your timer worked, you'd find that if the player pauses the game the timer will keep ticking.  Which is not correct.

[Naiakoa]

The only thing that comes close to what I am searching for when it comes to ticks is:

 

 

    @Override

    public void updateTick(World par1World, int par2, int par3, int par4, Random par5Random)

    {

        par1World.scheduleBlockUpdate(par2, par3, par4, BlockIds.HarkarSphere, 1);

        if(alreadyExecuted = true)

        {

            ticks ++;

            System.out.println("Ticks "+ticks);

            if(ticks > 20)

            {

                ticks = 0;

                alreadyExecuted = false;

            }

        }

        else

        {

            ticks = 0;

            System.out.println(ticks);

        }

    }

 

    @Override

    public int tickRate(World par1World)

    {

        if(alreadyExecuted = true)

        {

            return 1;

        }

        else

        {

            return 0;

        }

    }

 

 

But it only sets the variable back to false for only a 1/2 a second. thus keeping the tick counter in a endless loop. And ontop of that the only way that the tick will start is if I add this.setTickRandomly(true); at the top, hence why I was giving timers a try

[Draco18s]

Block#updateTick()?

World#scheduleUpdateTick()?