[1.10.2] Using Ticks on methods?

[Cerandior]

I would like to have some "special effects" before spawning an item in the world, and for that i need some sort of timer. E.G for 5 seconds spawn particles, after that spawn the item. I know minecraft uses Tick as it's time unit but how do i utilize ticks in methods? For example onItemRightClick method? I was thinking of using Java TimerTasks but i would like to know if there's a better way using minecraft Ticks

[Cerandior]

You need to subscribe to ServerTickEvent / ClientTickEvent and count

 

Any example? Or if you know any mod that uses this i can have a look myself.

[Cerandior]

I like the new forgeDocumentation. It's pretty neat. Actually i am not sure if it is that new since i haven't been active for months. As for the main point, I do know how to set-up events, i just wanted an example of someone using it. Anyway i just remembered. Blocks and Items have a "onUpdate" method right? I can use that and a variable to work something out. I am not very sure how you would get if the player is right clicking a block through events though, never tried something like that.

Thank you for the time

[Animefan8888]

I like the new forgeDocumentation. It's pretty neat. Actually i am not sure if it is that new since i haven't been active for months. As for the main point, I do know how to set-up events, i just wanted an example of someone using it. Anyway i just remembered. Blocks and Items have a "onUpdate" method right? I can use that and a variable to work something out. I am not very sure how you would get if the player is right clicking a block through events though, never tried something like that.

Thank you for the time

Note a variable on an Item is shared between all in game instances.

[Cerandior]

Then NBT Data would work better.

[Cerandior]

Also note that onUpdate will only be called while an Item is in the player's inventory. And for Blocks you would need a

TileEntity

.

 

And TileEntities onUpdate will only be called if it exists in the world? Then i don't really need any "fancy" way since these restriction don't really prevent anything of what i am planing to do.

[Cerandior]

Last time i worked on forge there was something like IUpdatePlayerListBox that you had to implement into your tile-entity to get "onUpdate"

Is that gone now?

[Animefan8888]

Last time i worked on forge there was something like IUpdatePlayerListBox that you had to implement into your tile-entity to get "onUpdate"

Is that gone now?

Yes you use ITickable and not the client one.

[Cerandior]

Alright thank you for helping me, both of you. And i am sorry for the inconvenience.

 

~Have a nice day.