I've been hard at work trying to make my first mod, and I've finally got most of the issues worked out and have a (nearly) working set of .json files for my block. I'm basically making a torch with a different texture and recipe, and everything's worked fine until I changed the blockstates json file from a simple one to the one the vanilla torch uses. Here's what I have right now:

 

{

  "variants": {

    "facing=up": { "model": "braziermod:brazier" },

    "facing=east": { "model": "braziermod:brazier_wall" },

    "facing=south": { "model": "braziermod:brazier_wall", "y": 90 },

    "facing=west": { "model": "braziermod:brazier_wall", "y": 180 },

    "facing=north": { "model": "braziermod:brazier_wall", "y": 270 }

  }

}

 

The result is a black-and-purple-checker texture on a cube. I think the issue is that the class file for the block doesn't do anything to set the block state when it's placed, but in my internet searches I haven't found out how to do it and I can't look through the thousand obfuscated classes in the vanilla .jar to find out how Mojang did it. How can I solve this?

 

This is my first time asking for help here, apologies if I have done so poorly.

Hi

 

This troubleshooting guide might help

http://greyminecraftcoder.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/troubleshooting-block-and-item-rendering.html

and perhaps this background information on states

http://greyminecraftcoder.blogspot.co.at/2014/12/blocks-18.html

 

Also this example mod (MBE03)

https://github.com/TheGreyGhost/MinecraftByExample

 

For vanilla see BlockTorch.

 

you are probably missing

    protected BlockState createBlockState()

    {

        return new BlockState(this, new IProperty[] {FACING});

    }

?

 

-TGG

Thanks, though I just figured out I can tell the class to extend BlockTorch and it fixes all the problems I had left. Crisis averted.