Hello,

I'm a new modder, I don't have real knowledge on mod, and I have real problem with a function of Forge.

When I ty to create a new block and define a Material, this last one is totally ignored by the game.

I explain : If I create a block which as for Material "sand", it reacts like a basic block (sound of the stone, no falling, and all is effective on it, not only the shovel). It is the same for all material in Minecraft.

I showed and read a lot of tutorials but everybody do the same error, and they don't seem to take care about this problem... whereas it's very important, I think.

Here is an example :

 

In my principal mod file I declared the bloc : "sandofpath" and initialized it like this :

sandofpath = new BlockwwrpSand(Material.sand).setBlockName("sandofpath").setCreativeTab(wwrpTab).setBlockTextureName(modid + ":" + "sandofpath");
GameRegistry.registerBlock(sandofpath, "sandofpath");

 

Here's the class of the block (BlockwwrpSand) :

package wwrp.Blocks;

import java.util.Random;

import wwrp.Common.Modwwrp;
import net.minecraft.block.Block;
import net.minecraft.block.BlockFalling;
import net.minecraft.block.material.Material;

public class BlockwwrpSand extends BlockFalling 
{

public BlockwwrpSand(Material material)
{
super(material);
}
}

 

I tried a lot of solution but they don't work at all.

Material seems to be realy ignored by Forge 1.7.

Do you have a solution to fix it ?

 

Thank you in advance. 

Material doesn't have the effects you think.

"sand" in particular does nothing but having a specific note from the note block, and display "sand color" on the map (MapColor)

 

There are also "burning", "pushing", "tool use" flags in Material, but "sand" uses the defaults.

Alright, I though the material.sand enable the block to have the same function as sand.

So, how can I make the bloc have the same proprieties ?

I mean, the falling, the shovel which is more effective on it than other tools, the stepsound, ... ?

I have to encode all the proprieties one by one on the class of my block ?

Most of those properties can be defined at block initialization.

Extend BlockFalling to get a basic falling block, then use the setters to add other properties.

Block#setStepSound(SoundType)
Block#setHardness(float)

Okay I managed it manually.

My block is perfectly working now.

Thank you