[1.15.2] Syncing tile entities

[DavidM]

Hello.

I would like to sync the data of my tile entity on the server to the client.

Previously, I used custom packets to sync my tile entities.

However, I am interested in exploring the built-in way of syncing tile entities.

As far as I can tell, TileEntity#getUpdatePacket is used to get the update packet of the tile entity (to be synced indepedently), while TileEntity#getUpdateTag is used to send the tile entity to the client as part of a chunk data packet. I am not sure how I should trigger a sending of the SUpdateTileEntityPacket though.

The closest I can find is ServerPlayerEntity#sendTileEntityUpdate, but seeing that the method is private, I assume that there is a better way of doing so (using reflection and forcefully calling the method doesn't sound like a great idea).

How do I sync the data of a tile entity to all tracking players using the built-in method?

Edited April 9, 2020 by DavidM

[TheGreyGhost]

Hi

You might find these links useful

https://github.com/TheGreyGhost/MinecraftByExample (see mbe20) - working example of tile entity synchronisation

and

http://greyminecraftcoder.blogspot.com/2015/01/tileentity.html  (a bit outdated but still current I think)

-TGG