How do I increase the reach of the player?

[memcallen]

I've made an item that I want to use to increase the players reach. It's basically a block teleporter, but that's not relevant. I want it to increase the range if it's in a player's inventory, but only if it's in the hotbar. I know how to make it detect if it's in the hotbar or not, I just don't know how to increase the player's range when they have it.

[shadowfacts]

It is quite simple, just need to call setBlockReachDistance like so:

((EntityPlayerMP)entity).theItemInWorldManager.setBlockReachDistance(double distance);

You just need to call this method with a double, (the default reach distance according to ItemInWorldManager is 5.0D).

[memcallen]

is it ok to put that in the onupdate or would that cause too much lag?

[shadowfacts]

You should only need to call this method the first time when your item enters the hotbar and when a player that has the item rejoins the server.

[TheGreyGhost]

is it ok to put that in the onupdate or would that cause too much lag?

 

Dude, you could call that method ten thousand times per tick and the user wouldn't notice.

 

-TGG