(1.7.10)Rotating block and changing blocks (tied together)

[Jigokusaru]

I am trying to make an block or TileEntity that rotates based on the direction its placed, or spawned on a players death. And i wanna change blocks based on its loctions like if urs facing north change a block 1 down, 1 forward and stuff not sure how though

[Jigokusaru]

Im doing a conjoined mod for 1.7&1.8

[Jigokusaru]

Well my friends server is 1.7.10 at the moment till he finds a few mods that he needs for security like locked chests so people cant steal and break blocks that dont belong to them

 

[Draco18s]

I am trying to make an block or TileEntity that rotates based on the direction its placed, or spawned on a players death. And i wanna change blocks based on its loctions like if urs facing north change a block 1 down, 1 forward and stuff not sure how though

 

There's a way to get the direction the player is looking (EntityPlayer#getLookVec) that you can use to create an offset for which blocks to change.

[jeffryfisher]

There's a way to get the direction the player is looking (EntityPlayer#getLookVec) that you can use to create an offset for which blocks to change.

Many of the vec3d methods are client-side only (used for rendering), so check it. If so, then imitate rather than calling server side.