Can someone tell me how to add an inventory to a block?

[Chevy]

I am making a block for my mod and I want it to have an inventory like a chest. I've tried looking at the chest to see how to do it but I can't figure it out. Can someone help?

[Ernio]

You need to assign TileEntity to your block. Look e.g BlockFurnace.

 

Then, you need a TileEntity (don't forget to register it) which has inventory (depending on version, but you probably want to implement IInventory).

 

Once that is done, you need Container (thing that represents slots in TileEntity) and GuiContainer (a display of Container for client).

 

+ You may need packets, but only if you will need dynamic updates of Block/TileEntity.

 

There are many tuts on this + vanilla source.

[Draco18s]

You need to assign TileEntity to your block. Look e.g BlockChest.

 

Fixed that for you.

 

Protip: If you want to do something like [X] go look at the code for [X].  It's almost like it'll tell you how to do it.