I'm trying to create a block that mines the block next to one of its faces. I've run into two problems I can't seem to figure out on my own:

1. how do I get facing information for my mining block

2. how do I communicate the facing information to my mining blocks tile entity so I can use it to do the mining every 20-60 ticks

 

[SOLUTION]

1 and 2:

first, in your blocks tile entity class import static net.minecraft.util.Direction.*;

then you can use:

getBlockState().getValues().containsValue(UP),

getBlockState().getValues().containsValue(DOWN),

getBlockState().getValues().containsValue(NORTH),

getBlockState().getValues().containsValue(SOUTH),

getBlockState().getValues().containsValue(EAST),

getBlockState().getValues().containsValue(WEST).

Edited August 24, 20196 yr by andGarrett

28 minutes ago, andGarrett said:

how do I get facing information for my mining block

Where do you store it? The block state? BlockState#get

 

29 minutes ago, andGarrett said:

how do I communicate the facing information to my mining blocks tile entity so I can use it to do the mining every 20-60 tick

TileEntity#getBlockState().get()

5 hours ago, Animefan8888 said:

Where do you store it? The block state? BlockState#get

 

TileEntity#getBlockState().get()

Thanks! I don't know why I missed it