What's the difference between a Cake block and a Cauldron ?

 

you can eat cake

caudlrons take water

 

yeah okay, great. what about this ?

 

they are both special renders

they both keep count

and render differently depending on times eaten/water available

cake and cauldron MAY just use meta

you could pull it off without a tile entity

 

yes, that too. but you're not close to it.

 

I'm using an ItemRenderer, to render an item into a model.

But, blockmodels already exist? so why bother making new models !

 

I use this very line to render blocks

 

render.renderBlockAsItem(blockToRender, 0, 1.0f);

 

where "render" is an instance of RenderBlocks

 

this works with Cake and Reed/Sugar Cane

it lacks the rendering with flowerpots, cauldrons, brewing stands, repeaters, comparators and signs

 

Thanks for any reflective answer or help.

 

I would be willing to bet that it also works for these items:

Silk

Redstone repeater

Brewing stand

Comparator

(Plus cake, reeds, and cauldron)

 

All seven of those items are instances of the same item class (ItemReed.java).

 

I have no idea why.