So, I've been trying to figure out how to implement a custom liquid. I seem to be doing well so far, albeit it's displaying water instead of my custom liquid and the water is at the minimum level. Anyone have any ideas what's going on here? Here's my current liquid registry and building code

 

 

public class BioFluids {
public static Fluid ossidefluid;
public static BlockFluidFinite ossideblock;
static Item ossideitem;
static ModelResourceLocation ossideLocation = new ModelResourceLocation(Main.MODID + ":" + "ossideblock");
public static void createFluids()
{
	FluidRegistry.registerFluid(ossidefluid = new BoneChemFluid());
	ossideblock = new BoneChemBlock();
	GameRegistry.registerBlock(ossideblock, "ossideblock");
	ossideitem = Item.getItemFromBlock(ossideblock);
	ModelBakery.addVariantName(ossideitem);
	ModelLoader.setCustomMeshDefinition(ossideitem, new ItemMeshDefinition() {
            public ModelResourceLocation getModelLocation(ItemStack stack)
            {
                return ossideLocation;
            }
        });
	ModelLoader.setCustomStateMapper(ossideblock, new StateMapperBase()
        {
            protected ModelResourceLocation getModelResourceLocation(IBlockState state)
            {
                return ossideLocation;
            }
        });
}
}

 

 

Any thoughts? Granted, it's likely fairly clumsy but I figured it was worth asking about.

That looks mostly correct, though you'll crash the dedicated server by using client-only classes in code that needs to run on both sides. Move the model registration code to its own method and call that from your client proxy.

 

If you want a

BlockFluidFinite

to be at the maximum level, you need to set its

LEVEL

property to 7.

 

If your fluid is rendering as water, you haven't set the fluid for the model to render in your blockstates file.

 

I posted links to my fluid initialisation and model registration code here.

Hm. Seems like it's immediately collapsing to minimum height, after the block has been placed. Unless there's been a significant change in how fluids flow, I'm reasonably certain this isn't supposed to be happening.

 

EDIT: Here's the code, should've posted this in the first place.

 

 

 public class BoneChemBlock extends BlockFluidFinite {
public static Fluid ossideflowinstance = new BoneChemFluid();
public static Material ossidematerial = new BoneChemMat();
public BoneChemBlock(Fluid fluid, Material material) {
	super(fluid, material);
	this.setUnlocalizedName("ossideblock");
	this.setCreativeTab(BioTab.bioTab);
	this.setDefaultState(blockState.getBaseState().withProperty(LEVEL, 7));
}
@Override
public int getRenderType()
{
	return 3;
}
public BoneChemBlock()
{
	this(ossideflowinstance, ossidematerial);
}
} 

 

I think that's just how

BlockFluidFinite

flows. If you want a fluid that flows like the vanilla liquids, use

BlockFluidClassic

.

Ahhhhhh. OK, I thought BlockFluidFinite was for things like lava, whereas BlockFluidClassic was for things like water. Something that wouldn't form infinite pools, vs something that would. Thanks! Anyway, go ahead and mark this one as solved. Seems like my bio-engineering mod is well on its way to completion!

Finite is for fluids that don't have source blocks, only quanta.