[1.7.10]How can I replace a block with air and not have the inventory dropped

[jotato]

Hey everyone, I have been searching around for a good hour now and I can't find this definitively answered. If I missed it please just point me to the correct post.

 

So I am trying to call world.setBlock to replace a block with air and everything works on normal blocks However, on blocks that extend IContainer the inventory is dropped as well. Is there a way to prevent this?

 

Looking at the source for setBlock it can take flags and it looks like 1 is what will update the block being replaced. But it seems like no matter what flag I pass in it still happens. I have tried 0 (which looking at the code and debugging through doesn't make a call to `notifyBlockChange` or `markBlockForUpdate` but it still happens.

 

Anyway, am I overlooking something? Is there a way to make a block not drop its inventory when being "broken"? I am ok with just deleting the items that are in there but I don't see an obvious way of doing it.

[knokko]

try using world.getEntititiesWithinAABB(EntityItem.class,...)

[jotato]

I'm not seeing anything in EntityItem that would accomplish what I am trying to do. Maybe I overlooked something?

 

Plus that is just for entities. Really I need to either just delete the inventory from anything that extends IInventory.

 

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edit...oh wait  Are you saying to get all entities AFTER they have been dropped and just set them to dead? hmm..sounds like that could be risky and I might accidentally delete any item that just happened to be on the ground around the block

[Alexiy]

What if you call invalidate() on the Tile entity before setBlock?

[TheGreyGhost]

Hi

 

You could try

 

world.removeTileEntity(wx, wy, wz);

before your setBlock to air

 

-TGG

[jotato]

/facepalm!

 

I knew I was just doing something silly. Thanks