[1.12.2] Cannot override getGrowthChance of BlockCrops?

[mirk]

I'm wondering if anyone can help me: I'm trying to @Override the BlockCrops#getGrowthChance function, but IntelliJ and Gradle keep complaining that there's nothing to override, even when I literally copy and paste the entire function into the new class.

What's going on here?

Here's the new class' overridden version, just for reference.

@Override
protected static float getGrowthChance(Block blockIn, World worldIn, BlockPos pos)
{
    return 0.3F;
}

 

[Draco18s]

You can't override static members.

 

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2223386/why-doesnt-java-allow-overriding-of-static-methods

[mirk]

Well, that's a bugger. Thanks, Draco!

[Draco18s]

You can get the same effect by overriding the methods that call it and using a different implementation.