I'm brand new to Forge and Minecraft modding, never done anything like this before.

 

As a test, I wanted to just print a message when the player clicks a dirt block. I created a simple block class:

 

public class BlockLogger extends Block {
    private static final Logger LOGGER = LogManager.getLogger();

    public BlockLogger(Properties properties) {
        super(properties);
    }

    @Override
    public ActionResultType onBlockActivated(BlockState state, World worldIn, BlockPos pos, PlayerEntity player, Hand handIn, BlockRayTraceResult hit) {
        if (!worldIn.isRemote()) {
            LOGGER.warn("Clicked!");
            player.sendMessage(new StringTextComponent("Clicked!"));
        }
        return super.onBlockActivated(state, worldIn, pos, player, handIn, hit);
    }
}

 

I registered the block in the root class of my mod with the following:

 

Registry.register(Registry.BLOCK, "dirt", new BlockLogger(Block.Properties.create(Material.EARTH, MaterialColor.DIRT).hardnessAndResistance(0.5F).sound(SoundType.GROUND)));

 

Running this, if I right-click the block with an open hand or a tool, I get two "Clicked!" messages. If I right-click the block with another place-able block, I get only one message like I expect. This behavior persists regardless of whether or not I call the parent's onBlockActivated method, but that's not surprising, it doesn't seem that the parent does anything other than returning PASS.

 

What's going on here? I don't suspect a client / server issue since it does work with a place-able block. Have I registered it wrong? Is this just entirely the wrong way to do this? Or is this intended behavior?

 

Thanks.

 

 

1 hour ago, TechnoSam said:

Hand handIn

The player has two hands.

Oh wow, I didn't even think about that. Thanks a bunch!

 

I added the hand to the chat message so I could investigate what was going on. It seems like it triggers once for each hand in almost all scenarios. It triggers with only the main hand when right clicking with a block in the main hand. With a block in the off hand, it still triggers once for each hand. I can't manage to get only off hand.

 

What's the logic there? If I place a block from my off hand, wouldn't I want to only get one event? It seems like that makes it impossible to build an action that happens only when clicking with the off hand. (Not that I want to do that, I'm just trying to understand how the system works.)

The main hand is checked. If something happens with the item or block as a result of the main hand (ItemActionResult.SUCCESS), the off hand is not checked.