[SOLVED][1.13.2] Keeping a tile entity through block state change

[SizzleBae]

Hey!

I have tried to make somewhat of a "battery" block, that charges over time and when it reaches certain power thresholds it changes the block state to update the block's texture. I do this by having a tile entity, since I want a lot of power, and I don't want to generate thousands of block states. However, when I change the block state containing the tile entity, it is destroyed and gets recreated at 0 charge again, this loop then repeats.

 

At https://mcforge.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tileentities/tileentity/, there is a section labeled "Keeping a TileEntity through changing BlockStates" that says I can achieve this by overriding the function "TileEntity#shouldRefresh". This function appears to be removed entirely in [1.13.2], is there a new way to do this? I have tried to look at the furnace block and tile entity for help, but I have had no success so far... 

Edited March 13, 2019 by SizzleBae

[Toma™]

There should be method in TileEntity called shouldRefresh (atleast in 1.12). Try overriding that

I'm stupid, and I can't read... 

Edited March 13, 2019 by Toma™

[SizzleBae]

1 hour ago, SizzleBae said:

"TileEntity#shouldRefresh". This function appears to be removed entirely in [1.13.2], is there a new way to do this?

5 minutes ago, Toma™ said:

There should be method in TileEntity called shouldRefresh (atleast in 1.12). Try overriding that

It no longer exists I am afraid...

 

 

Edited March 13, 2019 by SizzleBae

[SizzleBae]

Umm, so I overrode the network functions in tile entity, and now it seems that the tile entity persists. This happens both on remote world and not remote world. So I think it is okay now, because I can easily destroy the tile entity when I do not want it anymore  Is it supposed to be persistent by default, or have I done something wrong?  

[SizzleBae]

2 minutes ago, diesieben07 said:

TEs are removed by Block#onReplaced now. You can override that to provide custom functionality.

Oh, that explains it! I recently overrided it  Thank you!

[SizzleBae]

@Override
    public void onReplaced(IBlockState state, World worldIn, BlockPos pos, IBlockState newState, boolean isMoving)
    {
        if(worldIn.isRemote())
        {
            return;
        }
        
        if(!(newState.getBlock() instanceof BlockCrystal))
        {
            worldIn.removeTileEntity(pos);
        }
    }

 

Yeah, I did this to prevent that. It kept on spawning my block when I tried to remove it ^^

[Draco18s]

Probably because there's behavior in the supermethod that you still want to call.