I have a block class that extends BlockFurnace, and its constructor starts as follows:

 

public MyBlock(boolean isBurning){

        super(Material.rock);

 

Material.rock is underlined red, and when I mouse over it it tells me this:

 

BlockFurnace (boolean) in BlockFurnace cannot be applied to (net.minecraft.block.material.Material)

 

This confuses me greatly, as this is basically the same code as the actual BlockFurnace constructor (except that one is protected rather than public, but changing that doesn't fix the problem). The rest of the constructor works just fine and doesn't crash the game or anything. Please help me figure out what's going on and how to fix it!

 

EDIT: Actually it does crash when compiling, telling me this:

 

warning: [options] bootstrap class path not set in conjunction with -source 1.6

[filepath]MyBlock.java:55: error: incompatible types: Material cannot be converted to boolean

        super(Material.rock);

                      ^

 

EDIT2: I replaced Material.rock with true and now it's happy. Is there some other way I can set the material, or whether or not it requires a tool?

this.blockMaterial=Material.*

after the super.

"Cannot assign a value to final variable 'blockMaterial'"

 

Is what it says when I mouse over this.blockMaterial, which is underlined red

If you just want the material to be rock, nothing needs to be done. You're extending BlockFurnace which already passed Material.rock as its material.

 

EDIT: This is also the reason why you get that error. blockMaterial, which is final, has already been assigned by BlockFurnace.

I don't want it to be rock, although I haven't decided what I do want it to be yet. Is there any way I can change the material to something else?

The only way I can think of is to not extend BlockFurnace and instead mimic it's functionality, but someone smarter than me may have a better idea.

You could use reflection. But why are you extending BlockFurnace anyways? That to me sounds like a bad idea.

I don't know what reflection is. I'm extending it because the block I'm making is basically a furnace, and I didn't want to copy-paste or recreate its functionality. Why is extending it a bad idea?

Challenge accepted.

 

Uh...so...what should it extend instead?

The same thing BlockFurnace extends?