[1.8]Edit dispenser class.

[Cerandior]

I have had a very busy month and i have gotten quite rusty in this past month.

However we are near christmass and my school's homeworks are getting lighter. Today i opened up Eclipse and started to catch up to my old project. Apparently i would have wanted to make dispensers able to plant seeds. So instead of dispensing the seeds as items, i want the dispenser plant these seeds if the block on front is farmland. I haven't quite started anything on this and before i do i wanted to make sure that this can be done easily. Is there any event that handles item dispensed? Maybe through that event i might be able to achieve something. If there is can you please tell me the event name. If there is not. How can i edit the dispenser class? I don't remember on working in this type of thing before so any help would be appreciated.

Thank you for your time.

[Draco18s]

1) you can't edit bar classes

2) you don't need to, you may need to create a custom dispenser behavior and add it to the dictionary.

[Cerandior]

Now, adding the custom behavior wasn't hard at all. I tested and it worked. It does set the Wheat (The first type of seeds i tried). But problems started soon when i tried to add an if statement to check if the block in front of dispenser is farmland. I am so damn confused with this block states thing that were added on 1.8

 

I tried using this code:

 

 

if(worldIn.getBlockState(pos) == Blocks.farmland.getDefaultState()){

        worldIn.setBlockState(pos, Blocks.wheat.getDefaultState());

        }

 

 

It doesn't work. It wont even place the seeds.

However if i remove the if statement, it will place the seeds even if the block in front is obsidian. (It doesn't care what block is there). Now i think that i know what is happening and i don't know at the same time. I refused to work with 1.8 before and this was one of the reasons. I don't like this blockstates thing.

 

What i am guessing it happens is that the farmland should have different states. I am only checking for the default state in which the farmland may or not be. Of course since there is not a checker for the wheat block the dispenser will always try to place the wheat block. So it wastes seeds and also resets the crop state from full-grown to ungrown state. How can i make this block-check thing easily. I am sorry for noobish questions but i really don't get these block states.

 

It is actually very frustrating because it seems like is such a simple thing to do and i can't get around it

[RANKSHANK]

try

worldIn.getBlockState(pos).getBlock() == Blocks.farmland

And yes farmland has states for the moist. Comparing just the states is a bad idea in this case

[Cerandior]

Is it possible to compare blocks with blockstates? I thought you couldn't do that. Anyway i will try this when i get home

 

Edit: Sorry i missed the .getBlock() part. I was on my phone. It is now working, thanks for help

[Draco18s]

Is it possible to compare blocks with blockstates?

 

blocks will never equal blockstates, so you're going to have to rephrase your question.  What is it that you are trying to do?

[Cerandior]

As mentioned above. I missed a part of the code he wrote because i was on my phone.

That is why i asked that question, because it doesn't make sense to compare a block with a blockstate. However when i got home i re-checked the code and saw the .getBlock in:

worldIn.getBlockState(pos).getBlock() == Blocks.farmland

Everything made sense after i notice this.

I managed to get it working and the dispenser is now planting the seeds the way i wanted it to.