[1.7.10] Changing a Dropped Item and/or block in World with an Item

[jrockjake]

Topic says it all, I'm thinking of making sort of a Recycling Rod of sorts. I want the Rod to turn dropped pieces of armor into ingots or nuggets. I know the basics and everything but that's pretty much as far as tutorials go.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

[Draco18s]

EntityItem objects are Entities and can be found when dropped by using world#entitiesInAABB(...)

There are at least three different versions, you're going to want the one that takes a Class as a parameter and looks for Entities that subclass the passed type.

[Darkona]

This might help you, here's an example. Then you can simply iterate and do something to the entities.

 

double posX = player.posX;
        double posY = player.posY;
        double posZ = player.posZ;
        List<EntityItem> groundItems = world.getEntitiesWithinAABB(
                EntityItem.class,
                AxisAlignedBB.getBoundingBox(posX, posY, posZ,
                        posX + 1.0D, posY + 1.0D,
                        posZ + 1.0D).expand(4.0D, 4.0D, 4.0D));