I am returning to modding from a four year hiatus, and I wanted to start by recreating a simple plugin I developed back then which created new behaviors for vanilla tools interacting with vanilla blocks. One such behavior in mind requires interaction with the flowing segments of water, but I can't seem to find a BlockInteractEvent that fires when a player attempts to use a tool on them. (I read somewhere that flowing water is considered a gas and not a fluid. Worst case of the imagination, I might suspect a flowing segment of water is not actually a block and is just an effect generated by one or more water source blocks.) I remember it was troublesome to implement back then, too, as I recall having to resort to checking for any right click action with an appropriate tool in hand combined with having flowing water within a few blocks of the player's line-of-sight vector, and today that feels like a bit of a cop-out approach. Are there any suggestions for a simpler and preferably more straightforward method of recognizing when a player uses a tool on flowing water? Thanks in advance!

I'm not 100% sure this works with flowing water, but you could try this...

 

Add an

onItemRightClick

to your item that does a ray trace like this:

final RayTraceResult target = this.rayTrace(world, player, true); // true: useLiquids

if(target.typeOfHit != RayTraceResult.Type.BLOCK) {
  return ActionResult.newResult(EnumActionResult.PASS, itemstack);
}

// ...

 

Edited November 3, 20186 yr by Corey

I'm not sure about whether it works on flowing water, either. Since I am modifying existing tools, not adding my own, I'd need to do an @Override of the onItemRightClick method for each intended tool, correct? Is that even allowed?

Just now, bulldogg6404 said:

Is that even allowed?

No, use one of the PlayerInteractEvent sub classes. As an event.

The only PlayerInteractEvent sub class that makes sense here (as far as I know) is RightClickBlock event, and it presents the same issue from the original post of the flowing water not being recognized as a block. The event registers fine with water source blocks, but that's not what I'm looking for.

 

Edit: PlayerInteractEvent.RightClickBlock did not work for me with water sources either; I was mistakenly remembering the results of a different test case.

Edited November 3, 20186 yr by bulldogg6404

33 minutes ago, bulldogg6404 said:

The only PlayerInteractEvent sub class that makes sense here (as far as I know) is RightClickBlock event, and it presents the same issue from the original post of the flowing water not being recognized as a block. The event registers fine with water source blocks, but that's not what I'm looking for.

 

Edit: PlayerInteractEvent.RightClickBlock did not work for me with water sources either; I was mistakenly remembering the results of a different test case.

47 minutes ago, bulldogg6404 said:

onItemRightClick

I wonder if there is a sub-class that has a similar name to this where one can to RayTracing to check for flowing water?

 

11 minutes ago, Animefan8888 said:

I wonder

 

.... well, would you look at that. I for some reason thought that RightClickItem meant it fires when they right click on an item (whatever that was supposed to mean). Thanks, that should be enough to get the ball rolling again.

Search is your friend. I ran into this same roadblock a while back.