How can I make my block provide drops when broken in creative mode?

You can, but the better question is why?

(Usually people want to know how to prevent the drops)

I have a block which replaces a selection of blocks and stores the path to a file with the saved selections on its tile entity. In survival, the player picks up the block after breaking and puts it in his inventory to place it at some other time and place and restore the original blocks from file. I would like the same behavior in creative

First, you need to check whether the player is in creative mode with an of statement. Next, you need to get the item id of the item you broke (I think there's a method called onBlockBreak for that). Finally, return the block id in the onBlockBreak method. I'm just trying to make simple solutions, so if this doesn't work, tell me and I'll spend some time thinking of a more concrete way to solve this

Thanks for the reply

 

Not sure what you mean by " item id of the item you broke".

 

I am breaking a Block. My understanding is that once it is in the player's inventory it is an ItemBlock.

 

Method onBlockBreak is on which class?

I re read what you were doing, and I was completely wrong ;-; disregard all of the above. How are you getting and saving the selection of blocks? Post your code please

 

I made a mistake and assumed you were doing something less complicated, my bad. Just post the class. Honestly, the way I'm thinking of is really simple (if what you're trying to do is what I think)

My mod is on GitHub, repository is mo-jo. The Block is named BlockSaved. Please have a look if you are interested.

 

But this is really a generic problem. How do you make a block, any block, drop in creative?

Try overriding

Block#removedByPlayer

to call

Block#harvestBlock

if the player that destroyed the block is in creative mode.

Thanks!

 

@Override
public boolean removedByPlayer(World world, BlockPos pos, EntityPlayer player, boolean willHarvest) {
	if (willHarvest) {
		// Delay deletion of the block until after getDrops
		return true;
	}
	if (player.capabilities.isCreativeMode) {
		harvestBlock(world, player, pos, this.getDefaultState(), null);
	}
	return super.removedByPlayer(world, pos, player, willHarvest);
}

You should pass the actual state (

World#getBlockState

) rather than the default state (

Block#getDefaultState

) to

harvestBlock

. At the time of

removedByPlayer

being called, the

Block

is still in the world.