How would I go about doing this? I would assume that I have to use the block breaking event. Then, I know what I need to do, but I don't know the correct syntax for doing so. I think I need to

 

1. Check if the item the player is holding has the silk touch enchantment

2. Check if the block broken is a spawner

3. Spawn a dropped itemstack of the spawner at the location where the block was broken

 

Could someone please help me figure out how to write code for checking a tool's enchantments, checking if a block is a spawner (and what kind), and dropping the spawner as an item on the ground?

 

 

@diesieben07 Thanks! I still don't know how to make a spawner though. I looked online and for 1.7 it's TileEntityMobSpawner, but that doesn't exist anymore. So far, I figured out how to check if the tool has silk touch or not. I don't know how to retrieve the block that is being broken, and I don't know how to determine whether it is a spawner or not. How would I check if the block is a spawner, what kind of spawner it is, and finally add the spawner to the list of drops?

 

Also I am unable to check whether I have silk touch or not... the ID value always returns 10 regardless of the enchantment for some reason.

Quote

@SubscribeEvent
	public void silkMiner(HarvestDropsEvent e) {
		if (e.getHarvester() != null) {
			EntityPlayer p = e.getHarvester();
			ItemStack item = p.inventory.getCurrentItem();
			if (item != null) {
				NBTTagList enchants = item.getEnchantmentTagList();
				boolean silk = false;
				for (int i = 0; i < enchants.tagCount(); i++) {
					if (enchants.get(i).getId() == 33) {
						silk = true;
						break;
					}
				}
				if (silk) {
					p.sendMessage(new TextComponentTranslation("nice"));
				}
			}
		}
	}

 

 

Edited February 28, 20178 yr by Turbin

If I'm not mistaken, 

e.isSilkTouching()

checks if the block is being dropped in its original state as the result of a silk touch material. So it returns true if for example I'm mining a grass block with a silk touch tool. But it returns false if I'm mining a spawner with a silk touch tool, because the spawner is not being naturally dropped.

 

I don't think e.isSilkTouching() can explicitly check if I'm holding a Silk Touch tool or not.

Glancing at the documentation it states "isSilkTouching is set if this is considered a silk touch harvesting operation, vs a normal harvesting operation. Act accordingly."

I believe you can just setDropChance to 1f if isSilkTouching, but I may be mistaken. That would only work if the spawner is in the List<ItemStack> drops.

 

20 hours ago, Turbin said:

ItemStack item = p.inventory.getCurrentItem();

Don't you need to check hands (main hand) now? What version are we working in here?

 

What tool/item did you want this to work with? Are you trying to override all silk, or just silktouch on a new custom item (e.g. a pick made of some new wonder-material)? If the latter, then you might have more options.

 

If you hit a dead-end, then you might try block substitution whereby you hook a chunk-generating event to replace all vanilla spawners in the game with spawners you've modified.