Getting Player name?

[robertcars]

How would I get the player name I cant seem to find anything on it because there all for the older versions of minecraft. I'm trying to accomplish getting the player name so I can have blocks have owners. Thanks for your help.

[hugo_the_dwarf]

Taking a stab here but "entityplayer.getDisplayName();"

if you really wanted to I guess you could pass the whole Player instance into the block (might be a bit overkill but then the block if you have it tick can use or effect the owner, probably wrong there still a bit new to this)

 

I'm interested in this as I want to mod owned blocks too. where only owner/creative/admin can edit/use it

[f1rSt1kChannel]

player.getCommandSenderName();

[robertcars]

Taking a stab here but "entityplayer.getDisplayName();"

if you really wanted to I guess you could pass the whole Player instance into the block (might be a bit overkill but then the block if you have it tick can use or effect the owner, probably wrong there still a bit new to this)

 

I'm interested in this as I want to mod owned blocks too. where only owner/creative/admin can edit/use it

Thanks alot it is getDisplayName() just in a different location it was Minecraft.getMinecraft().thePlayer.getDisplayName();

[Syntaxial]

Taking a stab here but "entityplayer.getDisplayName();"

if you really wanted to I guess you could pass the whole Player instance into the block (might be a bit overkill but then the block if you have it tick can use or effect the owner, probably wrong there still a bit new to this)

 

I'm interested in this as I want to mod owned blocks too. where only owner/creative/admin can edit/use it

Thanks alot it is getDisplayName() just in a different location it was Minecraft.getMinecraft().thePlayer.getDisplayName();

 

Be warned: That only works in Singleplayer as far as I remember.

 

Also, if the display name changes, the user will no longer be an owner of that block.

 

I don't have the API in front of me (Temporary install of Win8 to do tax, then back to Arch tonight), but I think EntityPlayer has a getEntityName() function, so it should be entityPlayer.getEntityName(), where entityPlayer is whatever you are referencing the EntityPlayer by

 

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong?

[SanAndreaP]

Since 1.7.10, you shouldn't use the player's name anymore for storing ownership! Use the players UUID for that.

It's

playerInstance.getGameProfile().getId()