[SOLVED] [1.10.2] Using Forge Energy

[m_lugg]

Hi,

I'm making a little mod and I want to use the new Forge Energy API with it - specifically, have a block receive and use power. After a couple hours on the interwebs, I couldn't find any good explanations of how to do this (I literally just have an EnergyStorage inside of a TileEntity at the moment). I would appreciate it if anyone could explain this or even just give me some basic code to learn from. (I'm brand new to the Capabilities system too, so a quick explanation of that wouldn't go amiss.)

Many thanks,

-Matthew

Edited March 11, 2017 by m_lugg

[larsgerrits]

Explanation of capabilities: http://mcforge.readthedocs.io/en/latest/datastorage/capabilities/

 

Replace everything you've read with the energy API equivalent, and you've got a TileEntity capable of handling energy.

[m_lugg]

Thanks!

One quick question: How would I write the currently stored energy into NBT? I presume I would use ENERGY_CAPABILITY.writeNBT with my EnergyStorage as the first parameter; but I am confused as to what the EnumFacing is for.

EDIT: After a re-read, would I be correct in saying that that can be anything, since my EnergyStorage can be used from any face?

Edited March 9, 2017 by m_lugg

[Draco18s]

myEnergyStorage.writeToNBT()

[m_lugg]

2 minutes ago, Draco18s said:

myEnergyStorage.writeToNBT()

That doesn't exist for me?

[Draco18s]

There should be a method with a similar name (because I don't have Eclipse open and don't feel like finding it for you). Its not static, you call it on the energy storage instance itself.

Edited March 9, 2017 by Draco18s

[Choonster]

EnergyStorage doesn't implement INBTSerializable, so it doesn't have methods to read it from/write it to NBT. Either get the capability's IStorage (Capability#getStorage) and use that to read from/write to NBT or do it yourself (storing the energy in a single integer tag).

[m_lugg]

Sorry for the delay in replying. I've got everything working now, thanks

One last question; I'm making a block that I want to consume power. That's working fine, but the problem is if I place _ANOTHER_ block which consumes power next to it, it sees the capability and extracts energy from it. Should I remove the getCapability override, or is there another way to get around this?

Thanks

-Matthew

[m_lugg]

Don't worry, I figured it out. Energy cables are responsible for putting the energy into the machine, not the machine itself.

Thanks for all your help!