How to make a normal Item a BlockItem of a custom block?

[Acryt]

Id like to make the iron ingot placeable. To do that, I created a Blockclass for my Block via Blockbench for the model, but now I want to place this block when "placing" the iron ingot. Thats why I want to make the iron ingot a BlockItem. But I dont know how to do that. Im still new to modding, and normally I would look for a solution in vanilla code, but I dont think that would help in that case. Thank you in advance.

[Draco18s]

5 minutes ago, Acryt said:

I want to make the iron ingot a BlockItem. But I dont know how to do that

You can't. Listen for the PlayerInteract events (there's a specific one that applies here, I just don't remember its name, check the type hierarchy).

[Acryt]

OK, thank you