world.setblockat stuff

[skyress3000]

Is there a way to set a block to air (or another block) without that block "noticing"? To clarify, I want to set a dispenser to air, but I don't want its inventory to drop.

[Mitchellbrine]

Try testing it yourself. It could work by just World.setBlockToAir(x,y,z), but I'd need to try it

[skyress3000]

nope, tried that and world.setBlockAt(x,y,z,Blocks.air) both of them make the dispenser drop items. I'll see if I can look into the /setblock command with the replace option...

[Mitchellbrine]

Now that I think about it, there should be some flags in World.setBlock(x,y,z) that makes it so it doesn't do that... I think.

[Draco18s]

World#setBlock(x, y, z, 0, 0, 2) ?

[Alexiy]

From my experience, there is no method which doesn't notifies neighbours. You'll have to copy setBlock method and delete code which does notifications.

[skyress3000]

This worked for me: world.setBlock(origX, origY, origZ, Blocks.air, 0, 3)