Hi guys

 

I am slightly new to modding in minecraft and may I overlook an important step. But I try to prevent an EntityItem from despawn after the usual five minutes while being collided with a special block (a conveyor belt).

 

The first attempt did not work, I thought somehting like the following would work:

@Override public void onEntityCollidedWithBlock(World world, int x, int y, int z, Entity entity){
if(entity instanceof EntityItem){
//some code to move the item
((EntityItem)entity).ticksExisted = 0;
}
}

 

So ticksExisted is not used to calculate when it despawns?!

 

The second, more promising, attempt was to use the lovely Forge Events:

 

I wrote a little EventHandler:

@Subscribe
public void handleItemExpire(ItemExpireEvent event){
	World world = event.entityItem.worldObj;
	double xPos = event.entityItem.lastTickPosX;
	double yPos = event.entityItem.lastTickPosY;
	double zPos = event.entityItem.lastTickPosZ;

	System.out.println("Item despawn event happend");

	if(world.getBlock((int)xPos, (int)yPos, (int)zPos) != null && world.getBlock((int)xPos, (int)yPos, (int)zPos) instanceof ConveyorBelt){
		event.extraLife = 20 * 60 * 5;//adding another 5min
		System.out.println("prevented item despawn on conveyor belt");
	}
}

 

And registered this event handling class in my main mod file, in the init method:

@EventHandler
public void init(FMLInitializationEvent initEvent) {
	//Event handerls:
	MinecraftForge.EVENT_BUS.register(new ForgeEventHandler());
}

 

But as well as the first attempt, the second didn't work and I am a little confused.

 

Maybe some of you could help me? Thanks in advance!

Sincerely -pick

Thank you!

That really solved the issue.