New APIs, so fun.

I'm attempting to get my ribbon cable multipart to function as a cable, but my method requires being able to access the next block, see if it's a cable, if it is, look at it's values. But thing is, neither world.getBlock or world.getTileEntity work. So how would I go about interacting with nearby multiparts and their tile entities, I have yet to find something equivalent to worlds functions

int side = 0
t = getMultipartTile(world, pos)
t.partMap(side)

 

Put this in some sort of Library. You will need it quite a few times...

def getMultipartTile(w:IBlockAccess, bc:BlockCoord):TileMultipart = getMultipartTile(w, bc.x, bc.y, bc.z)
def getMultipartTile(w:IBlockAccess, x:Int, y:Int, z:Int) = w.getTileEntity(x, y, z) match {
  case t:TileMultipart => t
  case _ => null
}

Thanks, I'll try and translate that into Java

Okay, according to Whov's tut, the tile entity is remade in the part class, but your function returns a TileMultipart.

Did Whov do it wrong?

The part "block" actually is just a block with a tileentity. This TileEntity contains an array in which the parts are stored. Certain parts like cables should occupy up specific spaces. 1-6 for each side.

t.partMap() will return an instance of your part (wire) which you can access directly by type checking followed by type casting.