I have looked at a couple of online documentations with the forge hierarchies but I couldn't find an answer.

 

A BlockDoor is a block, so in both states (open and closed) it acts as a block. Does this mean that it technically takes up the whole "cube" and some of it is without collisions, or is it a special sized block. Is there any way to get the block adjacent to the door? I tried to look for location, adjacent, nearby, etc... methods but they don't seem to exist for a door.

 

My next best bet was to implement a pressure plate mechanism, however when I checked the methods none of them seemed to explain the effect that pressure plates have. Any ideas about what those might be?

 

tl;dr I want to be able to detect players on top of/nearby/in blocks. I tried to look online for the appropriate methods, but I couldn't find them. If they exist I apologize for the question. Thanks!

Hi

 

You can get adjacent blocks if you know the [x,y,z] coordinate of your door block. 

The method you're overriding will give you World, call world.getBlock() with the coordinates of the adjacent block.

See also here

http://greyminecraftcoder.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/blocks.html

 

My usual strategy for figuring out how something works is to google it first, check a couple of links, then if nothing promising, just look at the vanilla.

 

For example:

Pressure plate?  search on pressure -> BlockBasePressurePlate looks promising

browse through methods ->

 

    /**
     * Ticks the block if it's been scheduled
     */
   public void updateTick(World par1World, int par2, int par3, int par4, Random par5Random)

    /**
     * Triggered whenever an entity collides with this block (enters into the block). Args: world, x, y, z, entity
     */
    public void onEntityCollidedWithBlock(World par1World, int par2, int par3, int par4, Entity par5Entity)

    /**
     * Checks if there are mobs on the plate. If a mob is on the plate and it is off, it turns it on, and vice versa.
     */
    protected void setStateIfMobInteractsWithPlate(World par1World, int par2, int par3, int par4, int par5)

I reckon we've hit paydirt there.

 

It's nearly always possible to get there pretty easily this way.  Just think of the vanilla block / item / text command that does something, search for it in vanilla, spend a bit of time figuring out how the code works, then model your new code on it.

 

-TGG