Writable blocks (Signs)

Started by Ale1025 on Sat, 06/03/2017 - 11:50

Topic category: Help with Minecraft modding (Java Edition)

Is there anyway to make a block writable like the sign? I know the sign is a TileEntity, but i was wondering if there was anyway to make blocks (Or entities with no AI acting as blocks) writable such us signs. Thanks in advance.

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I think with making they have GUI that has text input. But im not sure can it be made saving the text, so then it will be like sign.

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You can, if you make a variable and by clicking a button in the gui it give the variable the value of the text input but idk if you can display it on the block side

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How to display a text on a block's side?

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If you don't need your block to store items, NBT or energy/fluid, you can try this steps:

Enable tile entity of your block and do not change any other inventory settings;
Make the block open a GUI with text label and "Ready" button;
Create a procedure for that button that contains Set text variable textVar to: text inside textfield procedure block and custom code snippet - the code for it is:
```
world.getTileEntity(new BlockPos((int)x, (int)y, (int)z)).setText(2, new StringTextComponent(textVar));
```
Lock code of your block, remove CustomTileEntity class, replace all occurrences of CustomTileEntity with SignTileEntity, reformat and save code.