Tips and tricks for the new procedure system

There have been many questions on MCreator's website on how to use procedure system. We have decided to create a getting started guide for the new procedure system.

We have created a separate wiki page for this purpose. Old event related pages were marked as "legacy" on our wiki, but we will keep them on the website for the users of older MCreator versions.

Many users complained that they can not make things that were possible in event system before. This is not true, however. Just the way how to achieve the same effect is now different. Everything that was possible before is still possible, even with many more options and combinations. This new procedure system is very similar to the one found in Scratch editor. The block system framework we use is called Blockly and is developed by Google. It allows us to make a visual programming experience that was never possible before.

On the procedures wiki page, there are examples of procedures including the explanation of trigger and dependencies. Below, you can see an example of how to make a random possibility condition in the new procedure system.

Random possibility

In this example, we show how to create an if condition that triggers in 70% of the cases. In case it is triggered, the block at x, y, z (these coordinates depend on the trigger that provides actual coordinate values) is removed.

Examples such as the one provided in the citation above and many others can be found on our wiki on the new page dedicated to procedures.

Procedure system wiki page

We will update this wiki page with more examples in the future. If you would like to see a specific example, comment on this post and we will select the best requests and add them to the wiki page. Right now, only some procedures that were most commonly asked are shown. These include examples of how to create conditions that could previously be made using the event condition text box.

Comments

This sounds great, I guess you can use 1.7.8 then :)

this is hard to undersand i have never be work with this

We will upload some more tutorials soon, just keep trying, I believe you will get a grip on the new procedure system.

so what well you more update maybe in the new verions make own sea beast or bg houses or animate armor or trees make in wired ways or more of gui want i miss some stuff that i have great ideas

With this new system it is no longer possible to make advanced commands like /give because you can no longer use subcommands. I used to make commands like /tp %1 %2 %3 or /give %1 but now all of those advanced options are gone.

This is another thing we missed in procedure system. The same goes with the GUI text fields. Consider opening a support ticket and we will resolve it in next release.

I'll do that, thx.

Did they remove global events???

They removed all events (global events included) and added procedures instead.
For making a gloval event, change the additional trigger in the green block on the top of the procedure

We just changed the way to implement them :)

Gooood update :D

Thanks :D

Is there any way to wait in between a action in a procedure?

Actually a procedure is a Minecraft tick (1/20 seconds), so the only way for doing so is adding a global variable, then adding something that makes the global variable increase at the end of the procedure and adding an "if" condition that checks the value of the variable, does something and resets the variable. Rember to put big numbers in the "if" condition (if you'll put 100 it will wait 5 seconds, 100:20=5)
Sorry for bad English

Another option is to use random possibility for the ticks, but this way you won't have constant intervals. We will improve this in the future.

Thanks! Just hope it gets a bit easier in the future

How do i detect which block it is that someone clicked with the "When Tool Right Clicked On Block" Trigger? I need it so that the procedure will only trigger or continue if the block clicked is stone.

If (get block at x, y, s) = (minscraft component - stone)

umm how am i supposed to make it pick a number between 0 and 25

Do you really need 25 different numbers? If you do, simply make that if the number of a random condition is x, then make another random condition

but it only lets me choose a number between 0,1
P.S this is for a lucky block mod

Just multiply it by 10 so you have 10 different numbers
And if you need more, make that if the number is 10 do another random condition