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.

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I don't know why, now I logged in with wifi and it worked
When I'll see the error again I will take a screenshot

Ok, thanks! It could just be overloaded servers as we had some maintenance tasks running in the last days.

Glad my idea came through
YAAAAAAAS

It was the most requested feature for a long time, so we just had to implement this :)

So I like Mcreator and I use it for 2 years but I have such problem that I cant use GUI(Gui functions like CLEAR SLOT or PLACE ITEM IN GUI SLOT) dont work item dissapears but then returns. I use this programm for many years and I make a wish every update to remove this bug but it stays. Help please!

If your GUI is attached to a block, you can use block actions instead of GUI management events.
(Sorry for bad English)

Do what Raol suggested, you can also find some more tips on this topic on forums and on our issue tracker.

I want to make a timer so something happens after 10 seconds. I made a timer which increments to 200 (since every second is 20 ticks). I thought a while loop would work, but when i add the procedure to the block, it updates after like a second, no matter the size of the timer.

Do i use the "Update tick" property of the block? Does this check every tick or does it do something different? I'd like to know this.

There is much discussion about this on the forums. Right now you can not create delays with a fixed amount of time, but we plan to add a support for this in the future updates, but most likely not yet in 1.8.0.

thanks for the update, random timer will do for now.

No problem :)

If you're going to make the sleep timer in ticks, add an option to switch between ticks and seconds
1 second = 20 ticks

We might consider this, but as the conversion is very simple, it might also not be implemented.

personally, I wish there were premade things you could put that was exactly like the old one my brain can't even handle the tutorials of this.

We might implement simple template support in the future, this is a nice idea. Could you please open a support ticket with a feature request for this, so we won't forget about this idea and keep a track of it?

im assuming htat means make a topic thing in the forums on it?

No, we have an issue tracker as any other software. You can find it here: https://mcreator.net/tracker

for the item creator can you make a 5 line?

Sorry, what exactly do you mean with line 5?

Im changing back to 1.7.8 the recipies are missing and I dont want to create a seperate file for them

You will be missing quite a lot of bug fixes and features by swapping this for a very minor change. And keep in mind we do not offer any support for unsupported versions.

I have not encountered any bugs for 1.7.8 yet.