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So I want to make a block emit light when a redstone signal is applied to it. I know how to make it emit light but I don't know how to make it detect the redstone signal.

 

	myFirstBlock = new BlockFirst(538,0);
	myFirstBlock.setLightValue(1F);
	LanguageRegistry.addName(myFirstBlock, "My first block");
	MinecraftForge.setBlockHarvestLevel(myFirstBlock,"pickaxe",0);
	GameRegistry.registerBlock(myFirstBlock);

 

That's the piece of code that creates the block. This is written just after the '@Init' in the Base Mod file. I have defined myFirstBlock after the '@SidedProxy' further up in the code.

 

The block creation works fine.

 

Could I please just get some help with the redstone signal detection?

 

 

 

Thanks

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I suggest you have a look at vanilla redstone lamps.

 

Pretty much this.

You'll need two blocks for it to work, as how much light a block emits doesn't update based on state (or rather, it's very very difficult to get it to do so).

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And they are perfectly fine to do so.

Mods "abuse" metadata to save on block ids, but thats not what metadata is intended for. Mojang is the creator of the game after all, so they don't have to worry about stuff like running out of block ids.

What is it intended for? Also, they would have to (eventually) worry about running out of IDs - the limit is a technical one (the limit of a byte), so it is not like they could change it (without severe consequences for world file size and performance) if they ever ran to 255 blocks.

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You can do it with metadata no problem actually.

I second this. Just because MC uses multiple IDs for something does not mean that is the only way to do it; frankly, Mojang is rather lazy when it comes to metadata use.

 

The problem was not that "can you make multiple states without using more block IDs" but rather getting the light illumination level based on metadata.

 

Doable, but it wasn't strait forward.

 

See this thread for a working example.

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it would be in the blocks package in minecraft source code

 

I hope you realise that seems a really dumb and noobish question... I am pretty sure you are not a noob

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I have also found that I really love making extremely long and extremely but sometimes not so descriptive variables. Sort of like what I just did there xD

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