If this is a dumb question, I apologize in advance. I may be missing something obvious, but I can't seem to find a simple way to get the coordinates of the block itself within its class (something like xCoord, yCoord and zCoord with tile entities)? I know most methods supply the coordinates, but that isn't what I'm after. Any ideas, or is this impossible?

The block class is a singleton and is used as a reference for ALL blocks of that type in the word, regardless of their position.  That's why a world, x, y, and z coordinates are passed to most methods.

 

Why do you need these outside of those methods, what are you trying to do?

It was more of a general question. I've just been thinking about stuff and I wondered if it was possible. So the bottom line is, it's impossible.

More like "whatever it is you're trying to do you need a TileEntity."

 

Because seriously, either you're given coordinates or its a method where the coordinates are irrelevant (or its an overloaded function in which case, both).

I was thinking of creating a TileEntity based on a block's metadata, but was too stupid to notice the metadata value is supplied. Don't mind me! Idiot here...

Also, your TileEntity's constructor MUST take NO parameters or things will go weird, fast.