Hello,

how do I get the data from the Item the a block was placed with?

 

Busti

Could you explain a bit more? I think you're reffering to tileentity's to save nbt data.

Many mods like Enderchests save the NBT data on their Item when their broken. I know how do give an item that data but how can I parse it from an Item to a blocks tileentity.

 

use the on item dropped and use this to get the data

 

    TileEntityHeatConductant tile = (TileEntityHeatConductant) world.getTileEntity(x,y,z);

    if (tile != null)

    {

    var = tile.thing you want;

    }

 

I already got that but how do i get the items data when the block is placed...

Are you saving metadata to your itemstack?

Yes

Could I see your code?

There is not much to see yet...

@Override
public TileEntity createNewTileEntity(World world, int i) {
        //Get item data from somewhere...
return new ConveyorBeltTileEntity(ItemData data);
}

Arent you already sending your data to you TE in this line?

return new ConveyorBeltTileEntity(ItemData data);

Yes but I dont know how to get the data from the item...

 

Okay so I have this for one of my items

ItemStack sample = new ItemStack(BlocksItems.Sample, 1);
sample.stackTagCompound.setString("Researched", "yes");

 

then if you would send the itemstack via the constructor to the tileentity

New TileEntityItem(ItemStack sample);

 

then you could read your data in the tileentity using

private ItemStack sample;
public TileEntityItem(ItemStack item) {
               this.sample = item;
}

public static void yourmethod(){
     sample.stackTagCompound.getstring("Researched");
}

 

hope this helps you abit

 

But how do I get the Tileentity to know that data...

Or will a tileentity automatically take the Items data it was placed with?

wait you have an item and that places a block and that block create a te?

or do you have only a block?

I cant save nbt data on a block item so I create a new ItemBlock to place the block. That item has nbt data when crafted and should give that data to the te when it is placed.

I already did it. You can override the onBlockPlayedByPlayer method. It gives you an itemstack of the item you used to place the block and a worldobj so you can get the te you just created and give it the ItemStack to work with...

great