Hey everyone,

I am coding a freezer for food (in my mod food can decay)

My problem right now is when the freezer gets unloaded (playerr moves away from it) time keeps passing in the world. So when the freezer reloads I need to check how much time has passed, decrement the amount of coolant and if there is not enough coolant reduce the durability of the food.

 

I need the actual world time to check that and wanted to access the worldObj in readFromNBT, but im getting a NPE. I know I can acess an worldObj via MinecraftServer but I feel like this is a dirty way and im asking for the better one.

 

Any help is appreciated

Greetz Fail

I don't think this is possible, since the

TileEntity

isn't added to the

World

until after it's been loaded from NBT.

 

Instead, I'd recommend setting a flag in

readFromNBT

and then checking for this flag in your update method. If it's

true

, set it to

false

and then perform the load-time coolant calculations.

Always Choonster beeing the mvp :b thank you sir!

Actually, I just remembered that Forge recently added the

TileEntity#onLoad

method, which is called when the

TileEntity

's block is first placed in the world and when its chunk is loaded from NBT. You should be able to override this to do the coolant calculations instead of using the flag in the update method.

/**

* Called from the Chunk when this is first added to the world. Override instead of adding

* if (firstTick) stuff in update. Happens after validate and after it has been placed into the Chunk tileEntity

* map.

*/

 

Best.comment.ever.