Okay, so I've been trying to get a block to drop a number of items depending on tool used to break it by making the quantityDropped method variable. More or less so that improved tools will drop more ore and whatnot:

 

 

 

package com.felix.advancecraft.block;

import java.util.Random;

import com.felix.advancecraft.ACCreativeTabs;
import com.felix.advancecraft.AdvanceCraft;
import com.felix.advancecraft.item.ACItems;

import net.minecraft.block.Block;
import net.minecraft.block.material.Material;
import net.minecraft.creativetab.CreativeTabs;
import net.minecraft.entity.player.EntityPlayer;
import net.minecraft.item.Item;
import net.minecraft.item.ItemStack;

public class BlockCopperOre extends Block {

private EntityPlayer player;

public BlockCopperOre(String name)
{
		super(Material.rock);

		setBlockName(AdvanceCraft.MODID + "_" + name);
		setBlockTextureName(AdvanceCraft.MODID + ":" + name);
		setCreativeTab(ACCreativeTabs.ACores);
		setHardness(3.0F);
		setResistance(15F);
		setStepSound(soundTypeStone);
		setHarvestLevel("pickaxe", 0);
}
public int quantityDropped(Random rand, int amt)
{
	{
		int drops = oreAmount(amt);

		return drops + rand.nextInt(2);
	}

}

public int oreAmount(int amount)
{


	ItemStack tool = player.getHeldItem();

	Item itool = tool.getItem();

	if(itool == ACItems.primitivepick) amount = 1;
	if(itool == ACItems.copper_pick)  amount = 2;
	if(itool == ACItems.bronze_pick) amount = 3;

	else
	{
		amount = 0;
	}

	return amount;
}

public Item getItemDropped(int meta, Random rand, int fortune)
{
	switch (rand.nextInt(3)) 
	{
	case 0: 

	case 1:

			return ACItems.copperchunk;

	default:

		return ACItems.coppershard;
	}

}

}

 

 

 

Currently this only makes it drop the default of 1 each time, as opposed to a variable amount dependent on the tool. Probably an easy fix, but I've been stuck on it for awhile now and can't seem to figure it out, any help is much appreciated as always!

Haha I thought that might be the case, which makes perfect sense, this was just my first attempt. I'll give it a shot with the HarvestDropsEvent, I've added drops to vanilla blocks with it so I can probably figure it out with my own blocks. 

 

Also, that made me think of Ace Ventura. "You must be the Monopoly Guy"

 

Thanks again for your help!

Got it working and it works great! Just a matter of using the event.harvester.getHeldItem to adjust the drop rates in my eventhandler. I'll post my working code for anybody who wants to know.

 

Thanks again!