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[gilded mortar]

i found out how to do it

[gilded mortar]

i lied

[white bobcat]

I would recommend you to use my updated template at https://github.com/Kaioga5/Kaioga-s-Block-Templates/tree/main/templates/1.20.80/slab

The one in the wiki is an outdated version of my slab, I don't recommend using it

[rugged galleon]

I got working slabs now TY. If anyone is interested in mine as well just let me know and I'll send in dm

[rugged galleon]

makes sense to me haha (easier for the market place makers, harder for the free makers)

[rugged galleon]

after a lot of sweat today I guess I found the root of the problem on the whole models getting a magenta black texture after I had added 3 new block models. It was a missing }, in the terrain texture json 😄 all good now! my excitement is back to add more stuff. May begin with furniture now..

[gilded mortar]

anyone knows where i can find info about terrain.json?

[vestal marsh]

Do you mean terrain_texture.json? What do you want to know about it

[gilded mortar]

i wanted to see if i was able to use some textures like vines but with a color cus they looked gray

but i alredy found the solution

thanks

[true rover]

can we make bigger crafting tables?

[desert sorrel]

You could add more but the added slots doesn't work properly

[true rover]

great!

thank you very much

[true rover]

do i add the extra slots in the recipe file?

[desert sorrel]

No

Read what I said properly

[true rover]

uh, how do i add more?

[desert sorrel]

You could add more but the added slots doesn't work properly

"Doesn't work properly"

[true rover]

yes i read that

but you also said "You could add more"

[desert sorrel]

But the added slots doesn't work properly

Means it doesn't work at all or break your game

[true rover]

it doesn't matter

[desert sorrel]

Simple answer.... No you can't add

[true rover]

why did you say "You could add more" then?

[desert sorrel]

By JSON ui....

You could add more but the added slots doesn't work or doesn't work properly 😐✋

[true rover]

that sucks, my plan was to use json ui to display the added slots if that was possible

now i have to use entities...

[vestal marsh]

Any content logs? Could you try doing /setblock your block?

[rugged galleon]

thanks Smokey (I finally figured) it as a duplicate geo model I had in the RP..

[gilded mortar]

anyone knows what is the fire sound id?

i mean, when u extinguish it

[nova wolf]

block.fire.extinguish I think

[rugged galleon]

Does anyone know where I can find the behavior json for the 6 pixel thick walls so I can add my own walls to the game?

[vestal marsh]

There is no JSON file for vanilla blocks

[rugged galleon]

oh ok, I´ll just make it from scratch then!

[rugged galleon]

what´s the name of this block? It says stone bricks but there are no stone bricks in commands, I mean Mojang writes the texture one way and the block name another way. So confusing! I looked in the samples folder and it´s just not there (I tried blackstone_bricks and nope)
I´m trying to mass replace with a fill command

[desert sorrel]

Check blocks.json or terrain_textures.json

I think they named it with the actual block name

[rugged galleon]

just found out it´s called stonebricks (one single word) Jeez! thanks anyways! 🙂

[rapid imp]

can you make a custom barrel?

[desert vector]

with an inventory ui when opened? not without weird entity workarounds

[nova wolf]

Ye, you'd need tile entities I believe

Or some fancy scripting

[white bobcat]

You do it with entities, which is stupid 🙄

[nova wolf]

Sadly ye

[dusk pumice]

is there a way for a block to require a support block, otherwise it would break itself?

I am trying to make vines that check above themselves for air blocks, so it knows to break itself.
The thing is, I dont know how to do that, other than running an 'execute if' command.

[vestal marsh]

Placement filters can do that but youll need to define each block as there is no air tag

[dusk pumice]

perhaps.

The reason for this check is when the player breaks a vine.
This would make the vine above the broken piece become an 'end piece'
But then any vine blocks below should break once they detect the block above them is air.

I looked at another addon's code for their vines.
And theirs had the execute if command. However this sadly does not work.
I assumed it may have to do with when a player breaks a block, the block in question fails to trigger an event that was supposed to trigger vine blocks below to break as well.

[dusk pumice]

why are commands in json files so finicky?

I used "execute if block" etc. etc.
And then then the game throws a hissy fit that I cannot use "block"
Or "run" for that matter.

[raw minnow]

Gotta set your min engine version bro

[dusk pumice]

how can I find out what version to set?

[raw minnow]

Whatever version introduced the feature you're relying on. Bedrock added 1.13 execute proper in 1.19.50, so something later than that

[dusk pumice]

alright, thank you

[rapid imp]

Like a shulker box?

[ebon laurel]

Well, you can't have block entities in addons, so you need to summon a real entity and have the player interact with that

[rugged galleon]

Beautiful piece of info 👍

[rugged galleon]

so, are the chances big that waterlogging a custom block with a simple component or trait or state be made possible in update 1.21?

[desert vector]

no

[rugged galleon]

it´s kind of strange that with all the underwater stuff the game got, they did not allow the waterlogging to be a thing! also how they have wrapped the behaviors of blocks themselves (hardcoded) (just mean I could not understand the reason behing these things)

[desert sorrel]

If you want to waterlogged custom blocks here steps.

1. Place a vanilla waterloggable block eg. Slab
2. Save the waterlogged block in a structure block and export it.
3. Change the original block we waterlogged by custom block by editing the structure file.

[rugged galleon]

TY! I´ll copy this note to my notepad Bedrock notes! 🙂

[desert vector]

this is the blocks channel
but you've probably put your texture path in your entity's "materials" rather than "textures"

[dry igloo]

how would I do a queued ticking event with custom components?

[white bobcat]

minecraft:tick and onTick

[shrewd storm]

dumb question. in the growth_stage event if i change the event to state will it work without scripting the whole thing over with js?

hope that makes sence

[white bobcat]

No sorry it doesn't

I don't understand your question

[dry igloo]

thanks! new question, how could I execute the event with delay? when the block is placed, the event happens instantly ingoring interval_range

[desert sorrel]

You put that in minecraft:tick

                "interval_range": [
                    1,
                    1
                ]
            }```

[dry igloo]

i meant it executes on first tick then it uses the interval_range, but I dont want it happen on first tick

nvm i just used runTimeout

[rugged galleon]

ok I won´t ask anymore because I will remember..
per face uv sometimes is not accepted in Minecraft..
so does this mean I have to always use Box UV?
I use blockbench to integrate blocks so it´s much faster since it writes and creates the files into the Addon
Also the geo version is 1.12.0 since 1.19 bugs the texture (per face)

[vestal marsh]

Per face UV works to my knowledge. Using 1.21.0 as format version for geo

[atomic lake]

Does anyone konw what could be causing this error message? Is it something I need to fix?

[vestal marsh]

Show your material instaces component code

[atomic lake]

I'll have to do some elimination... I'm not sure what mod it is yet

[brittle heath]

how do I fix this?

[karmic lake]

Best tutorial for making a block with a lot of varied textures on bedrock? A lot of the ones I watched are either Java or too fast paced. Got the textures and could make all the separate blocks with the textures if needed but not sure what to do after that

[white bobcat]

https://wiki.bedrock.dev/blocks/block-texture-variation

[karmic lake]

I followed this and it literally just replaced all my block textures with a my one animated texture for some reason

Any help?

[white bobcat]

That means you did something wrong

[outer veldt]

Anyone know how to make custom leaves look vanilla?
||mine are on the left||

[karmic lake]

I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong tbh. I copied the code and replaced the texture names with my own and then saved the file and when I started minecraft. The block is invisible and for some reason half my blocks now have the pink and black error textures.

Is there anything I need to do outside of the terrain textures file?

[outer veldt]

nvm i figured out how to get it somewhat like vanilla

[atomic lake]

Does anybody know how I can get bonemeal to dispense into a custom plant block? Is that code on the plant block? or on the dispenser?

[rugged galleon]

ok I just broke a record and added 20 successfull blocks and just this one is throwing a fit... the model does have 1 pixel in thickness so what´s the problem?

[wild depot]

Sup

I came here for no reason

[rugged galleon]

this is the BP btw

[wild depot]

O

[rugged galleon]

a screenshot of the flat tv that has the problem - it´s a simple cube!!! and it is withing the bounds of the grid

[white bobcat]

It looks like, when rotated, it is within the bounds for no longer

And that's most likely the issue

[rugged galleon]

I kinda get what you mean but isn´t the rotation a full 90 angle? so why would it go out of bounds, like if it is not out of bounds in its initial state, it shouldn´t be if 90 rotated! but so does this mean I should make it shorter in width then?

it is 26 pixels in total width

[white bobcat]

The model will go out of bounds if is too large and rotated like that, you can see how blockbench prevents this by rotating it within the program.

[rugged galleon]

oh I will do the rotation it it to see

[white bobcat]

You could probably center it and use the translation property in minecraft:transformation to move it as you prefer

[rugged galleon]

it worked now, what I did was just pull it 1 pixel off the edge, but that´s funny though at it was on the edge not after the edge...

so this means now I will have to thicken its length to 2pixels, but that´s ok by me

[white bobcat]

Glad you got it to work

[outer veldt]

How would i make a block not be pushable by pistons in recent versions?

[vestal marsh]

ScriptAPI

[outer veldt]

aw man

i don't see a piston push before event 🤔

[vestal marsh]

lol, I guess they removed that

[outer veldt]

bruh, so there's no way to make a block immovable?

[desert vector]

no

[rugged galleon]

anyone know why 0 bytes for the log? the game is not generating written logs anymore even though it throws an error in-game regarding a block not being registered

[rugged galleon]

wow so the limit box is kind of small huh, I mean it stretches fine width wise but length wise it only hits 17 pixels.. I though it was 30x30x30 all around

[desert sorrel]

It is... Maybe you're sizing all sides where the other side reaches the limit while the other side is not yet that's why it's not stretching more

[solid brook]

What are blocks states

[unreal sun]

it's probably missing texture file from the lower part of door

try checking if the names are correct

@brittle heath

[brittle heath]

ya misspelled a lot of things and got it working now

[rugged galleon]

If I knew off the top of my head, I'd tell you, but the answer is (I guess, a Google away) but I'm on my cell now so it makes things a whole lot harder. I also am soon to understand it. I read about it but haven't understood it still. I may need it for my custom colored walls a friend of mine said

[onyx marsh]

How do I animate a block in Blockbench?

[vestal marsh]

Could you elaborate on animation. Do you mean flipbook textures or model animations

[onyx marsh]

I mean when u give the block xp there’s a animation that starts then pauses till u put lvl 10 of xp to fill it up like a battery

[vestal marsh]

So model animations. You cant really do that on Bedrock. You can use bone visibility as a workaround to give the apparent look of it animating

[onyx marsh]

K, how do I do that?

[onyx marsh]

How do I make it where u put how much xp u want the block to take or u can withdraw the xp and xp is energy for batteries

[vestal marsh]

https://wiki.bedrock.dev/blocks/block-permutations.html i recommend leaening about bone visibility and peemutations first

[vestal marsh]

🤷 very broad question. There are multiple ways. You can use a server form to input the exact amount of xp or levels. Maybe when you right click it deposits a random amount

[onyx marsh]

I mean it displays a screen that works like the gta 5 money system but xp and u can put in an amount and withdraw an amount.

[vestal marsh]

Then youll need to learn about scripting to open a form that the player can interact with

[onyx marsh]

Ah, how do I code a block to animate and to pop up a screen when u right click to withdraw or dispose xp?

[vestal marsh]

Learn scripting and custom components first

[onyx marsh]

Can you send me a link for me to learn?

[turbid veldt]

What are scripts?

Intro to ScriptAPI: https://aka.ms/startwithmcscript

Intro to Tests: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/minecraft/creator/documents/gametestgettingstarted

Official Docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/minecraft/creator/scriptapi

Community Docs: https://wiki.bedrock.dev/scripting/game-tests

Script API examples: https://github.com/JaylyDev/ScriptAPI

2021 Q&A: https://wiki.bedrock.dev/scripting/gametest-qna.html

2022 Q&A: https://wiki.bedrock.dev/scripting/scripting-editor-qna.html

May 27, 2024, 4:02 PM

[rugged galleon]

a friend of mine in which I believe, has been telling me multiple times that I should always use power of 2 for my textures, claiming it helps with performance. I have done so from there on, but there are still some textures I have that are power of 2 but not on both dimensions (16x32) you get the point.
Question is: should I change all my textures to power of 2 for both dimensions? 16x16, 32x32 etc if I want the best performance overall?

[white bobcat]

best performance 16x16

The bigger the scale, the more pixels the game must render

[rugged galleon]

no I mean in terms of comparing 16x32 and 32x32 -will the pc handle better 32x32 just because it is perfectly square and even though its pixel dimensions are bigger than 16x32?

[white bobcat]

Probably 16x32

[rugged galleon]

I just wanted to reconfirm with users here because chatgpt had said otherwise! so thanks 😄 - you know it´s always good to get inputs from several sources on such a polemic thingy haha

[desert sorrel]

First of all... Why ask gpt 😭

[rugged galleon]

I like to tamper with its intelligence 😄 (see how smart it is or how much it knows)

Does anyone know why Minecraft stopped writing into logs? they´re all 0 bytes without any text to them even though problems are detected

[desert sorrel]

That mostly happens when you quit the game without clicking the quit button, when you close it without clicking it, sometimes it bugs

[rugged galleon]

whah thanks I´ve never seen the quit button! oops! wonder where it is - I´l launch again and see if I spot it

[desert sorrel]

I meant by the quit is that you save the world, not just closing mc

[rugged galleon]

well ok I will see to that as well.. ty

[karmic lake]

Im trying to get varied textures on my block in bedrock but it just ends up being a black block with no texture or variation, also the icon in the inventory is invisble for some reaosn. Any help?

"resource_pack_name": "vanilla",
"texture_name": "atlas.terrain",
"padding": 8,
"num_mip_levels": 4,
"texture_data": {
"carrara_white_marble_block_02": {
"textures": {
"variations": [
{
"path": "textures/blocks/carrara/carrara_white_marble_block_02.png"
},
{
"path": "textures/blocks/carrara/carrara1"
},
{
"path": "textures/blocks/carrara/carrara2"
}
]
}
},
"blue_marble_column_with_polychrome_base_01": {
"textures": "textures/blocks/blue_marble_column_with_polychrome_base_01.png"

[rugged galleon]

they say the limit is 30 but not so.. limit here is 26

[desert sorrel]

Make a new model, create cube it's 30x30x30

[rugged galleon]

funny enought after saving and reopening I was able to resize up until 30

[karmic lake]

Here’s the code to view it easier, if any of you see what’s causing it to not find any textures (aside from the .png) then please help

[rugged galleon]

anyone knows what folder in the samples I can find the various block sounds MC has so I can start to assign them to my models?
sounds like metal, grass, scaffolding, etc (cause I need to know all they have so I can find the closest sound)

[desert vector]

there's a list of sounds here: https://wiki.bedrock.dev/blocks/block-sounds.html

[rugged galleon]

ah dang I am blocked by my corporation to go on this website... I will dig through the samples folder

am I on the right path?

[timid relic]

any1 can help me with this?https://discord.com/channels/523663022053392405/1245281082354700378
thank you

[white bobcat]

Don’t fish for answers in other channels, this is not allowed. Thank you.

[white bobcat]

Blocks don't use render controllers, ask in #1067869022273667152

[rugged galleon]

ah sure! let me delete it

[ornate axle]

Is there a way to make a block that spreads? Like sculk vein

[vestal marsh]

ticking + custom components

[ornate axle]

So it's possible, I just need to understand what you just said-

[vestal marsh]

Yes

You'll need to familiarize yourself with custom components and the scripting API

[ornate axle]

K I'll see

Thx

[atomic lake]

having an issue with a geometry I've created in blockbench... it appears to be showing up in all sorts of different ways in the UI, and I can't figure out why. The block itself works fine when placed, it shows up fine in the inventory, but the hotbar, drag, and creative/crafting search window all show it a different way!

I can't seem to find out why it's doing this, and it's been driving me crazy for a while

[vestal marsh]

You might need to reorder the order of the bones

[atomic lake]

I've tried that, and it doesn't make any difference

[white bobcat]

Bones order matters for the inventory rendering

[atomic lake]

I think I've got it right though... top ones on the bottom, bottom ones on the top?

[white bobcat]

Try it and see

[atomic lake]

try what?

[white bobcat]

What you just said

[atomic lake]

that's how they are already

[white bobcat]

Then try other order

[atomic lake]

I tried that too, unfortunately

[white bobcat]

There must be one order to fix it. That’s how you fix those sort of issues, for any geometry

If you want an easy solution, use an item to place your block instead

[atomic lake]

so it's just a case of shuffling until I find the right one?

[white bobcat]

Basically, yes

That’s why we need the inventory render property on block geometries but, we just don’t have that 🤷‍♂️

Is what Java does

[true rover]

can we control the block texture without using a model?

[white bobcat]

What does that mean?

[true rover]

so a block has a block state called color

[white bobcat]

Doesn’t the fourth image is rendering as intended though?

[atomic lake]

yea

[true rover]

if the the value of this state is red i use the red texture

[white bobcat]

It is rendering the model as in blockbench, so that’s what you asked for..

[atomic lake]

it's doing that... in the Inventory... but not in the hotbar

[raw minnow]

Block states are for blocks, not items. If you want separate colored items, make them

[true rover]

yes, for blocks

when did i say item?

[raw minnow]

I'm blind, I must have hallucinated it 😵‍💫

[white bobcat]

That sounds like a bug then..?

I have never experienced such thing as different render in hotbar and inventory

[atomic lake]

I'm thinking the same... because it used to work just fine, and then stopped a while back

[white bobcat]

That’s very interesting I must add

[true rover]

what???
i will rephrase the question:
i have a block with a color block state, can i use permutations to change the texture of the block depending on the color block state without having to give the block a model?

[white bobcat]

That answer was not given to you

It was for JangoBritt

[true rover]

oh sorry

[white bobcat]

Yes you can, use minecraft:material_instance in your permutations

That’s to you, Yasser 👆

[desert vector]

"minecraft:geometry.full_block" in the geo component

[true rover]

doesn't that require a model to work?

[white bobcat]

.

That’s a 16x16x16 unit cube geometry, just like a dirt or cobblestone block

See it like the old minecraft:unit_cube component

[true rover]

i have a reason to not use the geometry component

it makes the item icon look small and I don't want that.

[desert vector]

they've fixed the model ordering issue so hopefully they'll fix that too

[desert vector]

although they seem to have made a new issue

[true rover]

so the permutations can't manipulate textures without a model?

[desert vector]

no

[true rover]

thank you for the help

[true rover]

i have found a workaround tho

[shrewd storm]

concept for growing fungus. just a place holder atm

[desert vector]

I've seen 4 posts regarding this in the last week so I though I'd make a feedback post: https://discord.com/channels/1138536747932864532/1245673157969317918

[white bobcat]

I’m not too sure about what Mojang would think about that, considering how blocks.json is mainly intended for vanilla blocks.

hm…

[desert vector]

the suggestion would mean that you don't have to use blocks.json for the "variations" field to work

[white bobcat]

I think that’s not clear in the post, it looks like you are just mentioning the issue, perhaps it is just me since I just woke up, but give it a second look pls

Or if is explained there can you explain me here what you are suggesting

[desert vector]

material_instances doesn't support variations, if it did then we could have variated textures on custom models and change them based on permutation

[white bobcat]

And how you want it to support it?

That’s what I think the post is missing, your vision of the solution

[desert vector]

it should just automatically work like it does in blocks.json
Currently, this works

blocks.json

"my:block": {
  "textures": "my_variated_texture"
}

but this doesn't

"minecraft:material_instances": {
  "*": {
    "texture": "my_variated_texture"
  }
}

[white bobcat]

Okay I get it, what is it about block permutations though?

[white bobcat]

If they make this work, block permutations would have nothing to do with it

[desert vector]

currently if you want variations you have to use blocks.json, which can't change the texture based on the block's permutation

[white bobcat]

Yeah

If my_variated_texture is a texture with, let’s say 4 textures

And Mojang allows it to be used in minecraft:material_instance

Wouldn’t it mean that the texture would be chosen upon placement just like is done with blocks.json?

[desert vector]

The randomisation is based on the block location

[white bobcat]

So yeah, permutations would have nothing to do with it in that scenario

If that’s done, we would still be unable to decide which path the component should take based on the permutation

[desert vector]

does this clarify it? This wouldn't be possible currently

"permutations": [
  {
    "condition": "q.block_state('example:color') == 'red'",
    "components": {
      "minecraft:material_instances": {
        "*": {
          "texture": "red_variated_texture" // Random red texture
        }
      }
    }
  },
  {
    "condition": "q.block_state('example:color') == 'blue'",
    "components": {
      "minecraft:material_instances": {
        "*": {
          "texture": "blue_variated_texture" // Random blue texture
        }
      }
    }
  }
]

[white bobcat]

So that’s making use of two random textures, one with red variations and other with blue variations?

[desert vector]

yes

or they don't have to both be variated

[white bobcat]

I see what you mean now, but if that’s the case it would still be kinda limited

But yes it does clarify it

[shrewd storm]

You can with block states

[desert vector]

but then you have to do scripting and maths which is complex

[shrewd storm]

Not really. Just use interact or on playerplace

[white bobcat]

Overall is more complicated for a vast majority of people

[desert vector]

i'd also like a "texture_index" parameter for material instances (it would be more useful for me, i've never used variations personally):

"my_texture": {
  "textures": [
    "textures/blocks/texture_off",
    "textures/blocks/texture_on"
  ]
}

"minecraft:material_instances": {
  "*": {
    "texture": "my_texture",
    "texture_index": "q.block_state('example:is_on')"  
  }
}

[white bobcat]

Yeah I was just going to suggest that

Well, something similar

Let me finish writing it

I would transform your suggestion to the following:

When a texture with variations is used in minecraft:material_instances, it will behave just like using it in blocks.json. This would allow for textures with variations for blocks with custom geometries, which is currently not possible as stated in the original suggestion. In addition, I would make the texture field an array like it was done with the bone_visibility property for minecraft:geometry, which would allow the user to add a condition to each path of the texture variation.

I’ll add this to your post when I get back to my pc so I can write an example

[shrewd storm]

Thats what i was gonna suggest is bone vis

[white bobcat]

This way the permutations field is not even touched, and we are staying using the path logic of variated textures

I think something Mojang is more familiarized with will be of their liking, and so for us

[desert vector]

there shouldn't be conditions for "variations", it's meant to be random

i don't think it's relevant to the variations post

[shrewd storm]

Or it could be usefull with biome tags

[white bobcat]

It’ll be random, and in addition the user will be able to condition each variation

For example, let’s say a lamp has 4 texture variations for being on and 4 texture variations for being off

Condition it with example:is_on ^

This is a simple addition to allow for more complicated but yet possible use cases. For the simplicity of texture variations, just focus on what you are originally suggesting

[white bobcat]

Aka the first 2 sentences here

[desert vector]

more relevant to this imo (the format example given is a bit too restrictive but it's about a similar topic): https://discord.com/channels/1138536747932864532/1172272096529895434

[vestal marsh]

ON the topic of variation, 🙏 offset variation based on noisemap when

[white bobcat]

I don’t think that’s a good format

[desert vector]

same, but it's about conditions in material instances

[white bobcat]

But what I am suggesting will not be possible without your suggestion 1st

Since this would only be usable if the texture used has variations

Just like bone_visibility with bones

[desert vector]

would it look like this? seems separate to the "variations" field to me

"minecraft:material_instances": {
  "*": {
    "texture": [
      {
        "condition": "asfhisudhf",
        "texture": "ioahfrh"
      },
      {
        "condition": "!asfhisudhf",
        "texture": "sdfsdaf"
      }
    ]
  }
}

asfhisudhf molang variable when?

[white bobcat]

No

I’ll get on my PC after breakfast

Which, I should start doing lol

brb

[white bobcat]

Okay back, i'll contribute to that suggestion with my thougts now

[white bobcat]

Hoopefully that example clarifies it. Without your texture variations suggestion, mine won't be anything

[unkempt creek]

I noticed that once you put material_instances component in a block, it will become non solid block, even tho it uses full block geometry. So it won't able to receive redstone, and return false with block.isSolid in script.

Is this a bug?

[vestal marsh]

We dont know

You must use blocks.json for it to be a solid block

[unkempt creek]

blocks.json won't allow for having a different rotation of blocks.

Mojang need to fixed this, if it uses a geometry full block, it must be a solid block.

[vestal marsh]

Its bc it uses the geometry cimponent hence automatically making it non solid

Its not a bug, its working as intended to my knowledge

[unkempt creek]

Even with geometry component and it uses full block geometry, the block is still solid as long as the material_instances is not present.

[shrewd storm]

Thats only for texture

[unkempt creek]

We know that. Please understand first what we are talking about.

[white bobcat]

That’s probably a bug then

The geometry component should mark the block as a non-solid block independently of the content of the geometry

[clear bobcat]

Do these guides still require experimental or they just need updating ? If they're still truly in experimental, when do you guys think it'll come out of it ?
https://wiki.bedrock.dev/blocks/precise-rotation.html
https://wiki.bedrock.dev/blocks/precise-interaction

[desert sorrel]

you need to update the script version in manifest. but i'm not sure if it's experimental

and maybe it's beta too

[clear bobcat]

Nevermind they both use block events so obviously experimental.

gotta wait for custom components.

[clear bobcat]

Yeah sorry!

[white bobcat]

In case you wanted to do heads, that’s already possible on stable

We made heads for all the mob variations in my marketplace project

[clear bobcat]

Precise Interaction is what I wanted.

[white bobcat]

Okay

You can probably do it on stable as well

[wild depot]

Why is bro a ai 😭

[rugged galleon]

I like to see how smart it is but I don't believe it blindly, haha... I know it has flaws and likes to make things up in its own that is not part of Minecraft's way of doing things

If only it could learn though (by what we feed it) but it seems that only the paid one gpt4 is like that (or maybe not even)

[unkempt creek]

Using InteractWithBlock, or custom components, can achieve precise interaction. But these are still beta. ItemUseOn is already stable and this can also achieve precise interaction but you always need item in hand to interact with this event.

We have that https://discord.com/channels/523663022053392405/1070606638525980753

[rugged galleon]

Whoah nice I don't think I've ever seen that

ah here's why. It is not listed. that's why I never saw it. So how do I directly access it since it's hidden?

[white bobcat]

Go to the channels and roles section and select what channels to see

[oblique birch]

There's nothing I can do about the fact that giving a block a custom component makes it so you can interact with it right?

[desert sorrel]

nope.... wait are you talking about the annoying swing? if yes thats fix in preview

[vestal marsh]

Fixed in 1.21

[oblique birch]

Alr good to know

Now about stripping logs, what's the "standardized" approach? For any sort of axe item I've made, I've made it handle the block stripping (sounds and durability) but now for custom blocks the tag minecraft:is_axe doesn't do anything

[desert sorrel]

minecraft:is_axe is for items right?

[oblique birch]

Yes

[vestal marsh]

Are you talking about stripping custom blovks?

[oblique birch]

Yes

[desert sorrel]

try detecting if item has that tag and interact with you're block do the thing bla bla

[oblique birch]

I know how to do it

[vestal marsh]

Theres really no standard way in bedrock addons ecosystem imo

[oblique birch]

I'm just trying to get a sense of what'd be the best way to approach

I can't expect every addon to have a system that includes support for my custom logs

[oblique birch]

Usually people just follow the wiki

[vestal marsh]

You cant really expect addons to use the same system and be compatiible imo

many try to make libraries(me), many have failed

[oblique birch]

Yeah honestly can't see a way that'd allow for good compatiblity between things

[vestal marsh]

Unlike marketplace teams that communicate and collab with each other

[oblique birch]

I think the best approach would be

Axe:
 - If vanilla log -> Sound + Durability
 - Else nothing
Log:
 - Sound + Durability + Change block

This way if a custom axe from one pack is used on a log from another then it'd automatically work

[vestal marsh]

Another issue im worried about is what if the creator makes an axe but only wants ot to decrease durability of it hits an entity not strip

[oblique birch]

There's a before durability component right? Could that help, haven't looked into it yet

[vestal marsh]

Thats only affected by entity hit. Im saying if your custom log makes the item lose durability, then that can also cause issues :/ . We really need that tag system i recommended in feedback discord.

[oblique birch]

Ah yeah ok makes sense

[vestal marsh]

Ive been digging into javas src code to recreate vanilla stuff....and the amount of shit thays hardcoded is insane

[oblique birch]

We could kind off do it with the current stuff But there's no way everyone would follow that standard

[vestal marsh]

:/ the issue with blovks on interact is you cant cancel the swing animation

[oblique birch]

Ah yes, the fact the block stripping stuff is a private map

[vestal marsh]

but digger for some reason uses block tags as well

And yet bedrock doesnt

[vestal marsh]

https://xkcd.com/927/

xkcd: Standards

Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.

[oblique birch]

I mean currently, there's zero standards

And HCF is still fairly prominent

So prime time to make a standard so that allow the hcf migrants follow it

[vestal marsh]

Mfw scripting api has more standard than json which has been here since 1.13

[vestal marsh]

@desert vector just something to keep in mind as well since we're both the main ones updating the guides

[oblique birch]

Given people's reactions to the removal, I can't imagine there'd be that many people trying to do stuff on their

[desert sorrel]

i mean it make sense why people are disappointed of the removal cause HCF has been there for a really really long time... imagine i gave you a dog and after 5 years it died whats your reaction?

[oblique birch]

I'd be less disappointed if I knew the day was coming

[desert sorrel]

see... you never know soo it just make sense

[vestal marsh]

Except the dog wasnt experimental :/ not a great analogy

[desert sorrel]

bruh

[oblique birch]

Custom components are absolutely amazing, just define the component once and you can easily reuse it. If I ever change how my logs are meant to function, I only have to it change once.

"minecraft:custom_components": [
  "pv:log"
]

[vestal marsh]

Oh reminds me what cici said. Of an item has an on use on component and it interacts with a block woth a interact component, the blocks component will not fire at all

[oblique birch]

Interesting

Unsure if that's a good thing or bad thing

[desert sorrel]

I mean I didn't say custom components are bad.

[vestal marsh]

Bad bc once again ( #1067876948858118185 message ) the block shouldnt imo ever manipulate the item

[oblique birch]

Fair, maybe it's a bug? Guess we'll have to see once things come into stable

[vestal marsh]

We need a new competing standard 🤣

😩 so many thingd i want to do:

• Maintain the wiki
• Make a video improving the api
• release more addons

[oblique birch]

Video improving the api?

[vestal marsh]

Just a YT video goimg over how i would improve the api. Feedback, suggestion. Mostly minor tweaks. Not gonna be "add custom dimensioms" more like "let us tweak blocks itemstack)

[oblique birch]

Ah

Waiting for the day I don't need "placer items"

[oblique birch]

Yeah I've seen that

[oblique birch]

What about for onPlayerInteract()? Does it play the swing animation all the time, when it's a successful interaction, or not at all?

[vestal marsh]

Yep :/ #1067876948858118185 message

Which makes custom logs a pain really

[oblique birch]

Hopefully that changes

[vestal marsh]

Lots of rhings i want changed bout custom components

[oblique birch]

Random question but how does the game decide how much bonemeal it takes to grow a tree assuming it's unobstructed?

Getting anywhere from 2-8 while testing

[vestal marsh]

I havent looked into the sapling code yet bc ik we cant recreate it(every other crop ik the algorithm), but saplimgs have two states so it must be bonemealed once and each usage it uses a random number i believe then uses the placefeature command(natively) to place the tree struct

[oblique birch]

When you say we can't recreate is that because we need to use structures to load the tree?

[vestal marsh]

Correctomundo

a few crops we also cant 100% due to light level

[oblique birch]

Entities

[vestal marsh]

Workarounds begone

[desert vector]

The custom crops pr is the sort of thing we should stick to imo, makes it clear what's a component and prevents lots of nesting inside worldInitialize. For most custom components, use of classes is unnecessary and can look more intimidating

/** @type {import("@minecraft/server").BlockCustomComponent} */
const CustomCropGrowthBlockComponent = {
    onRandomTick({ block }) {
        ...
    },
    onPlayerInteract({ block, dimension, player }) {
        ...
    },
};

world.beforeEvents.worldInitialize.subscribe(({ blockTypeRegistry }) => {
    blockTypeRegistry.registerCustomComponent("wiki:custom_crop_growth", CustomCropGrowthBlockComponent);
});

[white bobcat]

For mine i'm just triggering the event whenever the block is interacted with an item using that tag. If it doesn't work for a custom axe of someone is simply because they forgot to add the tag, which is pretty much a requirement to have a proper custom axe.

me who was going to update the wiki with my slab template using custom components but Sean told me not to 😔

and since then I don't update the wiki till I receive news lol

[oblique birch]

Why not?

[white bobcat]

#713856400631267369 message

I'll just wait till I can do something and see what I can offer to the wiki 🙃

[rugged galleon]

Maybe because of timing? He was ahead. Could be

Does flip book work for complex models textures as well or just for cubes with same textures on all 4 sides and only in 16x width?
I understand the texture should be power of 2 though.

I ask cause I wanted to animate a small ceiling fan using flipbook

[shrewd storm]

i would assume so if your model itself has all the textures used inside one png. ik its hard to do with larger models but it should work.

[rugged galleon]

great! I´ll give it a try!

[atomic marsh]

Are unwalkable blocks not possible anymore?

[desert sorrel]

Sadly, NO

[white bobcat]

unwalkable blocks?

[unkempt creek]

The thing you can do is to have invisible block on top of your block when it is placed, so entities can't walk over it.

[unkempt creek]

It was a component for block to make it unwalkable, just like fence. Unfortunately, it was removed.

[languid gulch]

i know im a few days late, but adding th minecraft:unit_cube component makes it solid again

[unkempt creek]

Yeah, you were too late, that component is removed already and has been replaced by geometry full block.

[ruby ridge]

why can't I put "growth" state?

it allows me other names but does not allow "growth"

[white bobcat]

That doesn’t makes sense

[shut peak]

[Blocks][error]-Block name = 'try:lumut' | Schematic 'geometry.lumut' doesn't have a least 1/16th of its length within the unit cube on axis y.

Can some one tell me about this error

[vestal marsh]

There's something wrong with your geometry

[shut peak]

{
    "format_version": "1.12.0",
    "minecraft:geometry": [
        {
            "description": {
                "identifier": "geometry.lumut",
                "texture_width": 32,
                "texture_height": 32,
                "visible_bounds_width": 2,
                "visible_bounds_height": 1.5,
                "visible_bounds_offset": [0, 0.25, 0]
            },
            "bones": [
                {
                    "name": "bb_main",
                    "pivot": [0, 0, 0],
                    "cubes": [
                        {
                            "origin": [-8, 0, -8],
                            "size": [16, 0.15, 16],
                            "uv": {
                                "north": {"uv": [0, 0], "uv_size": [16, 0]},
                                "east": {"uv": [0, 0], "uv_size": [16, 0]},
                                "south": {"uv": [0, 0], "uv_size": [16, 0]},
                                "west": {"uv": [0, 0], "uv_size": [16, 0]},
                                "up": {"uv": [0, 0], "uv_size": [16, 16]},
                                "down": {"uv": [0, 32], "uv_size": [16, -16]}
                            }
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

[shut peak]

I make it in blockbench

[vestal marsh]

Make the size for y 1 pixel could you try that?

[shut peak]

But i need a block that thin

[shut peak]

Its work buat its kinda floating

[white bobcat]

Continue playing with the Y position till you get it right

[ruby ridge]

I don't know man I name it growth and miencraft:growth and it gives me error

what is the default render_method for plants

[white bobcat]

You trying that as a block trait? It doesn’t exists.

[white bobcat]

alpha_test

[ruby ridge]

states

[white bobcat]

minecraft can’t be used as a namespace then

[ruby ridge]

"states": {
"growth": [
0,
1,
2,
3,
4
]
}

[ruby ridge]

nor growth

why though

[white bobcat]

You need a namespace

namespace:growth

[ruby ridge]

why can't I use the default minecraft?

[desert sorrel]

you never been able to use minecraft as a namespace tho

everything needs to be custom... unless you're editing a vanilla file

[ebon laurel]

Also, if minecraft namespace was available, it would kind of defeat the purpose of even having namespaces, as many people would just use minecraft

[toxic vortex]

does anyone know how can i make a block placable on water like lily pads

[white bobcat]

Because is the default namespace for vanilla content.

[desert sorrel]

wiki already said that you can't use minecraft as namespace

[toxic vortex]

so i made a block that plays a sound with interacted but when i click it, it spams the sound, what should i do to stop this

[primal roost]

can u show ur code?

[drifting ginkgo]

why is my block doing this?

[toxic vortex]

    const ps = rd.source;
    const rdi = rd.itemStack;
    if( rdi.typeId == "vs:frd" || rdi.typeId == "vs:frd2"){
        const sl = ["sounds.oh_yeah","sounds.squeak_1","sounds.squeak_2","sounds.squeak_3","sounds.squeak_4","sounds.squeak_5","sounds.squeak_6"];
        const r = Math.floor(Math.random()*7);
        const dim = world.getDimension("Overworld");
            dim.playSound(String(sl[r]),ps.location, { pitch: 1.0,  volume: 1.0   });
    }
});```

[primal roost]

u should use new components now, but in that case, u can use tags for stop the loop, like:

if (!player.hasTag('soundloop')) {
  player.addTag('soundloop')
  // code
}
player.removeTag('soundloop');

[toxic vortex]

new components?

[primal roost]

when u have a bone with size Z in 0, u have to move the UV texture, like in the video, only 1 face of the bone

[primal roost]

yup

events in blocks

will be deprecated

in 1.21.10

[toxic vortex]

like what

example?

[drifting ginkgo]

sorry?

I didn't understand what you say.

[primal roost]

import { world } from '@minecraft/server';

world.beforeEvents.worldInitialize.subscribe(e => {
    e.blockTypeRegistry.registerCustomComponent('custom:component', {
        onPlayerInteract({ block, player }) {
             // code
        }
    });
});

something like this

[toxic vortex]

oh

thank you so much'

[primal roost]

block.json:

"components": {
  "minecraft:custom_components": [
    "betterend:trapdoor"
  ],
...

[primal roost]

in ur case, custom:component

i just copied my block

"components": {
  "minecraft:custom_components": [
    "custom:component"
  ],
...

[primal roost]

nvm, i just saw ur video, and u have to remove the texture faces

for example

if the block has a block above, u have to remove the upper face

using bone visibility

[drifting ginkgo]

It's exactly what I want.
but I'm using geometry

I don't know what bone visibility is

[primal roost]

Bone Visibility
Hide direct child cubes of bones in your model.

Molang expressions must adhere to permutation condition limitations.

Molang expressions supported in bone_visibility for format versions 1.20.10 and higher.

minecraft:block > components

"minecraft:geometry": {
  "identifier": "geometry.example_block", // Geometry identifier from file in 'RP/models/entity' or 'RP/models/blocks' folder.
  "bone_visibility": {
    "wiki_bone": false, // Hide cubes in this bone
    "conditional_bone": "q.block_state('wiki:example_state') == 3", // Molang expressions can conditionally set visibility
    "another_bone": true // true is the default so has no effect.
  }
}

@drifting ginkgo

[drifting ginkgo]

wiki bone?

[primal roost]

it's just an example of bone

[drifting ginkgo]

Do I need to keep this?

[primal roost]

ex:

[primal roost]

it's custom

u can change it if u want

[drifting ginkgo]

I don't want to change, I want to remove

I can't?

[primal roost]

...

[drifting ginkgo]

I'm being stupid

nvm

[primal roost]

is ur block using model or default model?

[drifting ginkgo]

default.
minecraft:geometry.full_block

[primal roost]

in that case, make a new one, making a normal block, using 6 bones

and then with bone visibility u can stop showing the faces u want

srry my bad english

[drifting ginkgo]

i'm not worried about that, your English seems great.

[primal roost]

ty

6 bones* (i just put 3 bones as an example)

u can rename ur bones

and then in ur json u can make it visible or not

[drifting ginkgo]

👍

[white bobcat]

change alpha_test to blend

[drifting ginkgo]

How do I create a block that has a growth state and, with each random tick, it grows and, when it reaches stage 3, it loads a structure?

I've asked this question several times, but I don't know how to deal with permutations or states

[gaunt steeple]

is there a way to replicate the sing behavior? the block needing a support block and breaking without it, but being able o use any other block as said support block?

[white bobcat]

Custom component using the Script API, onRandomTick

[white bobcat]

minecraft:placement_filter

[drifting ginkgo]

that?

const component = defineComponent(c => {
  c.name("");
  c.schema({});
  c.template(() => {});
});

export default component;

Or is it still that world.afterEvents... thing?

[white bobcat]

I... have no idea about what this is

Don't use ChatGPT

You can see a few of my templates for reference

[drifting ginkgo]

I didn't use gpt chat

lol

[white bobcat]

Just in case 🤷‍♂️

[drifting ginkgo]

I just didn't understand it right.

[drifting ginkgo]

why not?

[white bobcat]

idk where this is from, but that's not what you need

Here's a simple onRandomTick from my templates- torch.

If you don't know scripting, is a good time to learn it

[drifting ginkgo]

and thanks for the template, I know javascript, but I don't know anything about the @minecraft/server module

[drifting ginkgo]

wrong channel

[primal roost]

any wood template? with all in 1 addon?

[loud shadow]

[FeatureRegistry][error]-§4§lZOD§2IAK | demo:opal_ore_feature | The feature uses the feature type 'minecraft:ore_feature', which is considered internal and thus not compatible with this engine version of the game.[FeatureRegistry][error]-§4§lZOD§2IAK | No definition found for feature 'demo:opal_ore_feature'

some 1 understand this ?

[primal roost]

wrong channel dude

#1067869232395735130

[shrewd storm]

You can still use the traits and states for wood rotation that hasnt changed

[primal roost]

i mean, a template for stairs, doors, slabs, etc...

[shrewd storm]

Id use kai block templates theyre updated. Look at #1247068259698610268 this one sorry

even has grass spreading

[primal roost]

alr ty

[sacred fjord]

https://discord.com/channels/523663022053392405/1249431466010738763

[toxic vortex]

Thank you so much

[ruby ridge]

"minecraft:on_step_on": {
                        "target": "other",
                        "damage": {
                            "target": "other",
                            "amount": 1
                        }
                    },

is this correct?

[desert sorrel]

Blocks?

[ruby ridge]

yeah it didn't wotk

[desert sorrel]

[Deprecation of Blocks and Item Events](#announcements message)
[Removal of Holiday Creator Features (HCF)](#announcements message)

[ruby ridge]

Im still having problems with the collision

How do cobwebs work?

[desert sorrel]

Did you read the announcements?

[desert sorrel]

That would be pretty hard to replicate tbh

[ruby ridge]

why? is the behaviour of the block not components?

is it possible to detect an entity when it enters the selection box of a block?

[ebon laurel]

All vanilla blocks are hard-coded (something I personally don't agree with), so recreating them can be difficult.

The only way I could think of doing this off the top of my head is by giving the slowness effect to every player inside of the block using a ticking custom component.

[ruby ridge]

how do I stop blocks such as fences and walls from connecting with my block?

[desert sorrel]

there's no fix for that sadly

[ruby ridge]

what?

wait

damn so some blocks are hard-coded and not possible in their modding framework?

[desert sorrel]

all blocks and items ( except food ) are hardcoded

[ruby ridge]

they gave us half a cake huh...

[desert sorrel]

its been so long since they did that thing.

like 1.16.

[ruby ridge]

also the bundle is still experimental right?

oh yeah I checked other mods they also have the same issue

I'm starting to hate Mojang

[ebon laurel]

There's a reason many people call them mojank

[rugged galleon]

Hey! I just saw your message now! I was having lunch! I had the same problem, here are two fixes:
The warning is either that your block/model is bigger than the accepted size for Bedrock or that it´s too thin (zero size).
Create a dummy cube, put it in the middle of the grid, expand it to the max in all directions. (make sure your model is already converted to or already made as a Bedrock Block)
use Alt to expand it both directions at once.
Once your block is fully expanded to the max limit (blockbench will block it from being bigger than the accepted size)
Now all you gotta do is lower the size of your model to be inside that dummy cube.
After you adjust, delete the dummy cube and save! your block will be accepted back in the game.
If this is not your issue per say, one other thing you must do IF your model is a thin 0 thick plane is this: (and no one
here in this Discord have told me this, I found this out on my own):
1- Create a dummy cube and place it in the middle of the grid
2- select all its faces and delete the UVs (this will make the dummy cube invisible) DONE!
Doing this your model can be 0 thick and will be accepted just because there is an invisible cube laying down on the grid

[shut peak]

Thank but i already solve it 👍

[rugged galleon]

can we already create custom fences in bedrock or is it a hardcoded thing still?

[unkempt creek]

You can create custom fences, you need to use script to test adjacent blocks and change the fence's state accordingly.

[unkempt creek]

Take a look at his template
https://discord.com/channels/523663022053392405/1248389951150755932

[brittle heath]

how do I have a block replace a block and keep it's rotation?

[trail scroll]

What's the component where we can cull faces on custom block models?

[white bobcat]

That truly depends on your definition of replace and the method you want to use

You can use scripting or /fill

[white bobcat]

No component for that, you can use latest format version for geometries or blend render mode

[ruby ridge]

how does a block detect if there is block in all facing direction?

'down', 'up', 'north', 'south', 'east' and 'west'.

[shut peak]

Is there a way to make custom sign

[desert sorrel]

not directly, you could use scripts to fake it

[desert sorrel]

use permutation;

[ruby ridge]

how do I make a block destroy if it's mid air?

or not connected to any block?

[desert sorrel]

use scripts to detect that.. air does not have block tag unfortunately

if (!block.below().isSolid) { block.setType('minecraft:air') }

something like that.

[ruby ridge]

why !block.below? not block.above?

[desert sorrel]

so you'll choose to use js const blockAbove = block.dimension.getBlock({ x: block.location.x, y: block.location.y + 1, z: block.location.z }); than just block.above()??

[desert sorrel]

also it could be above(), below(), north(), east(), south(), west()

[ruby ridge]

what?

isn't block.above easier?

or is that a joke?

wait

im slow

I think using script would make it a lot more easier to do those stuff

[ruby ridge]

I did it...

[atomic lake]

Does anyone know how to use conditions to check for a lit campfire below a block? I'm trying to modify a condition that uses tags, and I don't know what the tags for a lit campfire are.

"condition": "!query.block_neighbor_has_any_tag(0,-1,0,'stove_on','m.stove_on')"

I want to add something like

"condition": "!query.block_neighbor_has_any_tag(0,-1,0,'stove_on','m.stove_on','minecraft:campfire')" but that's not right.

[white bobcat]

There is probably no tag for that

Check the wiki for a full list

[atomic lake]

I didn't see one in the wiki

I hoped to find that there was another way of doing it

[white bobcat]

Scripting

[white bobcat]

https://wiki.bedrock.dev/blocks/block-tags

[atomic lake]

what about querying the block.state to see if it's (not) extinguished... would that be a thing?

or if it's blocking smoke?

[white bobcat]

Not without scripting

[atomic lake]

okay, thanks

[outer veldt]

that's a bridge thing, I've never tried it tho

[ruby ridge]

how do I add custom tag to my blocks?

[ruby ridge]

oh cool thanks I was looking for this

[unkempt creek]

"tag:<yournamespace:yourtag>": {}

[shut peak]

I heard that we can manipulate uv in 1.21 so the sign ide whould be real

[desert sorrel]

Why the fuck I'm getting ghost pinged here lol

[ruby ridge]

why is the block.location of my block is at the bottom corner?

[tidal moth]

Try Math.floor()

[vestal marsh]

That's a #1067535382285135923 question

[ruby ridge]

it's a custom block though

other blocks have their location on center

[vestal marsh]

But you're using #1067535382285135923

[ruby ridge]

but mine is on the corner

is it on the script api side?

[ruby ridge]

it's still the same

[desert sorrel]

block.center().location

[ruby ridge]

that does work thank you

does all vanilla block are the same?

their location is at the bottom corner?

[drifting ginkgo]

I'm wrong

[ruby ridge]

thanks

[desert sorrel]

No block.center() is different that block.center().location

[drifting ginkgo]

okay
||I don't know how to answer you without sounding rude or that you're wrong.||

[desert sorrel]

He's talking about location so you're the wrong one here.

[drifting ginkgo]

I wasn't saying you're wrong, I would never say that 😦

sorry, Coddy

[vestal marsh]

https://stirante.com/script/server/1.13.0-beta.1.21.10-preview.23/classes/Block.html#center 🤨

[vestal marsh]

No youre right. Block.center() works as well

[desert sorrel]

He's 1.11.0-beta in 1.20.80

[unkempt creek]

block.center() return Vector3, so there's no location property of block.center().

[rugged galleon]

I don´t get why would we want to rotate a uv for? the block I get it but the texture itself does not make sense, unless it´s for flipbook purposes

[vestal marsh]

It's just more precise stuff. You'll need to use only just one texture but be able to rotate each texture differently instead of needing to texture each face indeividually 🙂

[ruby ridge]

location and center both return vector3

Anyways does anybody know here the height of a block in blockbench? I have no problem in creating armors and such because there is a player model but there is no block model I can follow

[vestal marsh]

16 pixels?

[ruby ridge]

yeah thankss

[unkempt creek]

Yes, the location return in the block location of the block (which is always a whole number). The center return the center location of the block. (Which has decimal, for example the center of the block is 0.5)

So they both return as Vector3. Vector3 only have 3 properties which are x, y, and z. No location property. So, block.center().location isn't a thing.

[karmic lake]

Is it possible to get anything close to ctm on bedrock?

So I can have connected textured without having 20 blocks per type of block

[unkempt creek]

What's ctm?

[dreamy otter]

is it possible to add 3d block to minecraft bedrock

[vestal marsh]

All blocks are 3d though

[dreamy otter]

i mean custom models

[vestal marsh]

Yes, it's possible

[dreamy otter]

how can i

[vestal marsh]

https://wiki.bedrock.dev/blocks/block-components.html#geometry

[dreamy otter]

does it need bp

or just rp

[vestal marsh]

What are you trying to do?

[dreamy otter]

i want it to be a resource pack not an addon

[vestal marsh]

That doesn't answer the question.

Are you trying to add custom blocks or modify vanila blocks?

If you're trying to modify vanilla blocks you cannot do that. Custom block models are only for custom blocks

[dreamy otter]

i was trying to modify vanilla

[vestal marsh]

Well now you've got your answer

[drifting ginkgo]

How do I import the texture of my model made in Blockbench into my RP?

[rugged galleon]

On blockbench right click the texture name and choose save as. This will export it out of blockbench. Then drag your texture to the RP textures folder

[novel mantle]

Is /setblock and /fill commands broken with custom blocks? I can /setblock and /fill my custom block if its the block at the location is anything but itself. If the block at the location is the same custom block it just tells me it couldn't place block.

[lost vine]

Hey everyone

how can i add "destroy_time" to my custom block with format version 1.21.10?

[vestal marsh]

Destructible by mining component

[lost vine]

is there any block json that has whatever u said?

[vestal marsh]

Check the docs?

[true rover]

how to give a specific bone in a model a texture?

[white bobcat]

Using material instances, just like you do it with the cardinal faces or up/down but with your bone name

[true rover]

yes, but can i do it without setting the material instances component again? i want to mix and match between different textures for different bones, and i don't want to create like 100 combinations of permutations for that

[white bobcat]

Can you be more specific with what you want to do? All I can do with this is give you a generic answer

[true rover]

there was nothing wrong in your previous answer, i went to work with it but realized that i will need to create every possible combination, which is alot, take for example i have bone1, bone2, bone3, and i have 5 textures, there is so many combinations of these and i will have to create a permutation for each one, is there a better way?

if no, that's fine, i might create a python script to do it

[white bobcat]

Why would you need to create a permutation for each one?

You can do:

"minecraft:material_instances": {
                            "bone1": {
                                "texture": "snow",
                                "render_method": "opaque"
                            },
                            "bone2": {
                                "texture": "grass_side_snowed",
                                "render_method": "opaque"
                            },
                            "bonw3": {
                                "texture": "dirt",
                                "render_method": "opaque"
                        }

The question is, are those textures dynamic?

[true rover]

when i add the material instances component from a permutation, it will ignore the one in the components

and if i use another permutation it will ignore the previous one and so on

[white bobcat]

So I am assuming the textures you want to use are dynamic, meaning bone1 will be able to use 5 different textures, and the same with the other bones?

[true rover]

exactly

[white bobcat]

Yeah unfortunately you'll have to do that manually, unless you do 1 bone per texture, which will make everything better from the coding side

[true rover]

interesting idea

[white bobcat]

What this means is that you'll have 5 copies of the same bone(s) and each will be using a different texture. Then you enable/disable them with bone_visibility accordingly

[true rover]

i got what you mean

[white bobcat]

Perfect. Yeah those are your only options

If they are not many bones I wouldnt mind doing the last one

Keep in consideration bone_visibility has a limit of 64 bones

[true rover]

i will go with the first option tho, because i am planning to use the bone visibility to change the shape of the bone, but i will save the second option for other blocks, thanks for helping

[white bobcat]

Glad I was able to help!

[vestal marsh]

Yes

[true rover]

how to stop a custom block from dropping itself when broken by silk touch, killing or removing the item entity isn't fast enough

never mind, i have found a way to mimic that by using player break block before event

[outer veldt]

Yeah I think the only way is scripting.
|| I may be wrong tho ||

[rugged galleon]

so if these are deprecated in 1.21 what will be their substitutes? saying they are gone is one thing. Another thing is saying Hey, these are gone, and are being replaced with these instead! unless all we got is they´ll b gone but we haven´t gotten what they´ll b replaced with. All I know we got is custom components, but if that has to do with it, the answer to my question still remains unanswered

[vestal marsh]

#announcements message

[rugged galleon]

yes yes I have read that like several times already and still it does not say - well let me show you: here is what it says: all Block Events being removed can be found here. Right I saw that too but that´s what i showed on the photograph. What are the things that will work instead of them? that only says now it´s the time to update.... right update how? custom components? if so then still the question is what words or code will substitute The deprecated stuff on the picture? I don´t think it explicitly show us the substitutions in custom components, rather it talks about scripting which is not my question

for example: on_interact - deprecated - use bla bla bla in scripting now
minecraft:on_placed - deprecated - use bla bla bla from now on (that´s what I mean)

what my common sense tells me is that No they are not deprecated, instead they are to be used inside scripting! So - I need a light on this, ty

[vestal marsh]

That requires you to actually read the docs then 🙂

We have told you that yes, custom components are the replacement. Now it is yiur job to learn scripting and read the docs to further learn the api

[rugged galleon]

now I fully understand. Ty

[shrewd storm]

or just give the customblock js an empty loot table.

[true rover]

sillk touch exists

[west ledge]

Block custom components are frustrating, but they don't have to be. They're so close. minecraft:placement_filter being unsavory and not having more before events increases development time by… a lot. Any thoughts?

[true rover]

my addon no longer uses holiday creator features, thanks to custom components

and there is PlayerPlaceBlockBeforeEvent which can replace placement_filter if you choose

[shrewd storm]

You could make a const of all the blocks it can be placed on and check if it's in the const to be placeable?

If possible you could also check which face/direction it is and do it that way with a const

[true rover]

you can even use custom components to replace the placement_filter component

[west ledge]

Yeah, but I personally think a better refined placement filter would be best.

I have item block placer and/or before placement events to handle what I can with a sort of custom placement filter logic. I guess that's okay. I'm glad we can do anything at all, but I hate having to reinvent the wheel. Looking forward to improvements to these in the future.

[true rover]

remember that a single custom component can be used for multiple blocks, unlike the placement filter, you don't have to write the same list of blocks over and over again

[west ledge]

That's true, but that's mostly because there's still a framework-sized hole in the community right now.

[vestal marsh]

https://discord.com/channels/1138536747932864532/1249768291384426546 speaking of placement filter....i suggested this

[chilly scroll]

Can you stack two textures on a block face? Or should I use two different bones with two separate textures?

[white bobcat]

different bones

[chilly scroll]

Alright. Will it look alright tho? It is two separate bones after all.

[white bobcat]

No, it won't

[magic umbra]

Make sure to use bone visibility or there will be z fighting

[white bobcat]

It will have z fighting like with entities

[brittle heath]

how stable are cuustom block components?

[west ledge]

You can also dynamically composite textures using terrain atlases.

A very little-known feature of atlases

[chilly scroll]

That's cool (and freaky lol). How would I do that?

[west ledge]

My (very) old notes say:

Apparently, all you need is "additive": true in an atlas entry.

[chilly scroll]

Thanks!

[west ledge]

Let me know if this method still works.

[chilly scroll]

Yeah, it still does.

[west ledge]

Neat, thanks. Does that help you at all?

[chilly scroll]

It doesn't help for the current block I'm working on, but I definitely have other blocks that could use this system.

[lost vine]

yo

how can i detect multiple states using one query?

i mean ( "query.block_state('??') == false" )

is it possible to detect multiple states?

[west ledge]

!q.block_state('a:b') && q.block_state('a:c') == 2

&& being your hero

[lost vine]

so like this?
"q.block_state('??') && q.block_state('???') == false"

[lost vine]

i know, i have used them before

[west ledge]

Looks like it, yeah.
I'm not super used to your style, though. Usually if I wanna do a q.block_state('???') == false, I do !q.block_state('???').

[lost vine]

it will detect if any of those states are false or detects if every single one of those are false?

[west ledge]

"q.block_state('??') && q.block_state('???') == false"
This would test if ?? is true and ??? is false.

[lost vine]

oh

so i had to add ! to it

or wait

lemme see something

bec im actually dumb as hell

[west ledge]

Nah, you're good.

[lost vine]

i dont have to check those states

bec my idea is kinda complicated

i will setPermutation to change the value of the state, so when i turn on something, everything else will set my default to false

and if i turn anything to false, everything that is true will be set by default to 'false'

[west ledge]

Don't use setPermutation() by itself to set a state.

Combine it with withState().

[lost vine]

i know

[west ledge]

Oh, then… what's the problem?

I'm having trouble following.

[lost vine]

block.setPermutation(block.permutation.withState('??', true or false))

[lost vine]

my brain figured out the issue after i said it here

just some brain issues

[vestal marsh]

Cant believe this isnt documented anywhere

[west ledge]

So it goes.

[white bobcat]

Ciosciaa plays pokemon with features

If only I knew about this 7 months early

[west ledge]

To be fair, this is just about the most hidden thing in the engine we can do with add-ons.

There are a couple of other things that teeter on the line of NDA, so… 🤐

[brittle heath]

how do I have a block spred?

[vestal marsh]

You'll need the tick component and the onTick custom component(random tick can work as well) registered and use ScriptAPI to spread the block

[lofty veldt]

hey can someone help me out #1254161957364437113

[white bobcat]

Don’t fish for answers, wait patiently for someone to help you

[lofty veldt]

oki sorry

[unkempt creek]

First time I'm seeing this.

[rotund badge]

to get my blocks, items, entities outside of hcf what do i need to add to their json files?

[vestal marsh]

Nothing to add. Just disable the toggle and chekc your content log

[zinc wyvern]

Can we use render controls on a block(if no any replacements)

[vestal marsh]

No

[white bobcat]

Item using attachable with component minecraft:block_placer

[zinc wyvern]

Render controps

[white bobcat]

ohh my bad, no

[true rover]

can we set molang variables in blocks?

i am trying to shorten
q.block_state('minecraft:vertical_half') == 'top' into v.top

if that's possible

[west rover]

if a block is updated by script will it reactivate minecraft:tick (looping is set to false)

[west ledge]

No

[white bobcat]

Try it

If it is directly re-placing the block, is most likely a yes

[west rover]

have you guys made stairs? if so how many permutations/states does it have

[vestal marsh]

A lot

[west rover]

is it in 3 digits?

[true rover]

0 permutations

6 states

these are all the states i used

[vestal marsh]

I actually have 3 permutations, two block states, two traits

[true rover]

but does your stairs turn corners?

[vestal marsh]

Please....this isnt my first rodeo: https://vxtwitter.com/SmokeyStack_/status/1788636856705278256

[true rover]

nice, does it interact with vanilla stairs?

[vestal marsh]

Too much work

Not gonna put effort into something Im abandoning again

[west rover]

if block traits are built in to MC do they count for the permutation limit?

[white bobcat]

Yes

[west rover]

well that is amazing

[white bobcat]

Indeed

[west rover]

so this only has 3 permutations oppose to 24

[true rover]

what's the limit?

[white bobcat]

65536 iirc

[true rover]

basically no limit?

[white bobcat]

If you are making complex logics, that's a limit

[true rover]

ig

[white bobcat]

Btw I just re-checked some of my old notes in an old book and it seems they don't

idk when I wrote that tho

[west rover]

ohh

[white bobcat]

I reached it with my connectable glass lol

That was way before custom components though.

[west rover]

had 120k once

the grass blocks were somehow replaced withmy custom blocks

[white bobcat]

lol

That can happens when using dev folders and being in the game for many hours leaving and rejoining

And about to reach the limit

Most likely not usual now with how many crashes you get

[west rover]

would love this to be confirmed
#1019692489596215388 message

[true rover]

that's way over 9000

[white bobcat]

I have over 50 blocks using block traits 🤷‍♂️

[true rover]

wait, what is the limit for exactly?

the wiki says it's for the number of blocks that have permutations in the loaded area, but does it count the total number of permutations or just the blocks?

[primal roost]

will u make a template for this?

[vestal marsh]

Hmmm no

[primal roost]

sad

[errant hollow]

is minecraft:breathability component deprecated ?

[static terrace]

Question: and i am at the start of digging. I am looking at resource/textrue packs only. Is there a good set of documentation about the "variations" array.
https://wiki.bedrock.dev/blocks/block-texture-variation.html

[white bobcat]

iirc yes

[white bobcat]

Probably not one better than that! We can help you here if you have any questions

[static terrace]

I was currious if ther was a way to vary the texture based upon block data... I know that it can change based upon block data. Like dark oak vs oak in the array. I know the block state names are world file. I know how to determine what the names are for the state that i would like to vary the texture upon. But i dont know how to control what texture is chosen based upon the state data.

[vestal marsh]

Shouldnt be?

[static terrace]

To be precise. I found someone had a pack that grabed the redstone signal strength, then used a custom texture on a barrier block gemoetry to select through each redstone signal strength level. I now know that data value is there in the resource pack to be accessed, in some capacity... Now just trying to figure out what the limits are.

[white bobcat]

I’ve never used it lol, seems unnecessary

I thought it was removed 🤔

[static terrace]

The value is the "redstone_signal" it seems to leak into barrier block display and control the index in the array that is used for the block itself. ... Maybe it is with the json value...
ie

"textrues":[
"path":"path/to/texture",
"redstone_signal": 12
]

or something just was hopping to not do this guess and check.

[vestal marsh]

To make it air or solid

Thats not unnecessary. 🤷 some people still use blocks.json

[white bobcat]

Can’t you do that with collision box?

[vestal marsh]

?

[white bobcat]

Collision box set to false will make the block act like air

In blocks.json and no blocks.json

[static terrace]

wouldnt it be so it acts like glass or fence gates

IE you want it to have a colision box, but not cause suffication.

[white bobcat]

Oh that

Yeah you are right

I forgot of this because on custom blocks the collision box can’t be skipped like on vanilla blocks

So once again, I see it pointless lol

Perhaps it works well for some specific cases, but for most of them… not quite

[vestal marsh]

Everything is pointless to you

Specifies whether the block is breathable by defining if the block is treated as a solid or as air. The default is solid if this component is omitted.

[static terrace]

Lets say you wanted to make something that was like leaves. but not exactly leaves...

like bramble or tree branches... or something... you dont want the player or entities to die in it... but you want it to interfere with the player movement... because you used it as obsticals in a level...

If it is not breathable... you will take suffication damage, if you remove the colision box it wont work as intended.

[static terrace]

This didnt work...

[white bobcat]

I must try it again to see 🗿

[true seal]

Hello, could someone help me? I have this custom block called 'Banana Trunk Block'. I would like it to be like wood in Minecraft, being broken faster using an axe.

[white bobcat]

That’s a behavior you do in the axe itself

[true seal]

Could you help me again? I'm a beginner with addons. I tried doing it this way, but it didn't work. Do you know how to solve this?

[white bobcat]

You must use minecraft:digger, and vanilla tools are non-modifiable

[true seal]

So, how can I make this block break faster with axes?

[white bobcat]

Vanilla axes? Scripting. Custom axes? Add it to the blocks array

[true seal]

Alright, thank you very much.

[white bobcat]

No problem 🫡

[true rover]

yes, i use scripts to make custom blocks break faster with vanilla tools.

with a ticking function that reads the block each player is looking at if it had a certain tag, if the player is holding the right tool, i change a block state which gives the block a permutation that makes it break faster, and remove the permutation otherwise, i wish there was a custom component what fires when a player starts to mine a block, this way i don't have to use a ticking function.

[ruby ridge]

it's removed in 1.20.4 and above?

[true rover]

it's called q.block_state now

[ruby ridge]

how do I have a on_tick with 2 conditions?

[white bobcat]

2 if statements?

[unkempt creek]

This isn't multiplayer friendly, cause if one player with the right tool is looking at block but isn't mining it, the block will still change state. So other player could mine it faster without the right tool.

[rugged galleon]

is it possible for us to create our own custom die so when we click for example on a block with that custom die we can change its texture (not its color)? this way I don´t have to create 10 individual blocks with 10 colors, (just the texture) - so if that´s possible, can I have a link to study that? thanks -

[brave yacht]

anyone know how to fix this problem? I am trying to make a loot table but for some reason when i use the command block to summon the items it doesnt.

The command was execute if block ~ ~-1 ~ water run execute if block ~ ~-2 ~ water run execute if block ~ ~-3 ~ water run loot spawn ~ ~1 ~ loot "blocks/test_fish_net"

[true rover]

i know, but it is the best i way i know.

can we use molang in the blocks. json file?

[vestal marsh]

No

[true rover]

sad

[full pagoda]

Hey

If a block BP doesnt have a geometry component

What will happen to that block?

Or it will take a fullblock shape?

[vestal marsh]

16x16x16

[full pagoda]

"format_version": "1.20.60"

[full pagoda]

Really?

Thank u

[white bobcat]

That if you use blocks.json btw

[woven robin]

hi there, what can I do to use higher resolution textures in a block if it is flipbook? right now my block is lossing it`s quality

[oblique birch]

Did you figure this out btw?

[true rover]

hey, can we toggle the visibility of a group of bones by toggling the visibility of their parents?
let's say i have a leg bone and a foot bone attached to it, is it possible to hide both bones by just hiding the leg? or do i need to hide each bone individually?

[cobalt granite]

Why does shadows looks so cheesy when updating blocks from 1.16 to 1.20.80(or higher)

[rugged galleon]

do we need the block geo fixer addon anymore? I´m on 1.20.81
What I actually mean is if I use this addon here, it will allow me to use geometry above the 30x30x30 limit huh?
https://mcpedl.com/block-geo-fixer-1-18-12/

[vestal marsh]

Nope that exploit was fixed

[brittle heath]

how do I have a block to place like a log? so the rotation works better that the one that I am currently using?

[vestal marsh]

https://wiki.bedrock.dev/blocks/rotatable-blocks.html#cardinal-direction-rotation

[rugged galleon]

curious tech question about the limit... why 30? why did they not allow at least 2 blocks? (32x) it was just 2 pixels left

[full pagoda]

Uhh

What gonna happen when HCF gets removed?

[vestal marsh]

Anything that relies on it will break

[full pagoda]

Including permutation?

[vestal marsh]

Permutations do not rely on HCF

[full pagoda]

I have an Addon that use the custom head tutorial on the Addon wiki

Will that break?

[vestal marsh]

Turn off HCF toggle and youll find out

[full pagoda]

ngl, thats what I should do

[leaden canopy]

What is HCF ?

[vestal marsh]

The Holiday Creator Feature toggle

[leaden canopy]

Got it, thank you

[leaden canopy]

Did it work ?

[rugged galleon]

Animated entity or block states for a ceilign fan for my single player/no server at all public free addon? (1.20.81)

[vestal marsh]

An entity might be your best bet to create a smooth animation

[languid prism]

are "properties" called "states" now?

[white bobcat]

That’s correct

[white bobcat]

World gen docs in the wiki can help with that

[mighty dew]

How do i change loot tables for blocks?

I’ve looked through the source code and the wiki but can’t seem to find them anywhere

[mighty dew]

I also wanna change how long it takes to mine

block in question is clay

[vestal marsh]

You cannot modify vanilla blocks

[mighty dew]

damn

i know that i CAN change what they drop with scripting

but the one guy working on this addon who knows how to script has already got a fairly large workload

and I don’t wanna give him more stuff to do

[white bobcat]

You can always learn to do it by yourself

[rugged galleon]

guys, is it possible, for example, I have my steet light post light block which is a simple block with a light emission.
The post itself is another separate 16x tall individual block so it´s not the whole thing like you see in the photograph.
My question is, that metal light block there (the light emiting one) is always on (24 hours) even in the day.
How can I have the emission become zero when the day arrives and 15 when sun sets?
you know, automatic like it is in real life, so all the lights on the town come one when night arrives - thanks

this is its Behavior json -I saw a world brightness thingy/setting value that did that same logic (on another addon) but it was on an entity and this is just a block, so... btw, this is for 1.20.81

[tawny falcon]

Could this become a future problem?

[vestal marsh]

That is not a future problem that is a problem you need to fix right now

[tawny falcon]

Do I really need to use these minimum values?

the player apparently stays floating on the block if he uses the minimum values

[vestal marsh]

That's why they're called minimum values?

[tawny falcon]

Oh

and is it possible to make the player not float on top of the block?

[vestal marsh]

Change the collision size?

[worldly wyvern]

I think it was changed because of render dragon? Not sure but geo blocks used to have the same capacity as entities before render dragon was implemented (maybe).

demonstrated here in my old addon pre render dragon

[unkempt creek]

What's the latest format version for block? Idk why 1.20.60 could use custom components?

[vestal marsh]

1.20.80 if youre in stable
1.21.20 if youre in preview

[unkempt creek]

Thanks

Where to see those updates?

[vestal marsh]

Format version is usually the game version 🙂

If it isnt the game will tell you its an invalid version so you should use the previous update version number

[unkempt creek]

I'm just using the version I have till it breaks, lmao.

[visual nimbus]

my block is invis

in game

[toxic vortex]

does anyone know about this new setting, if yes then is it broken?

[woven robin]

hi there, do someone know why a manually placed sculk shrieker dont spawns a warden? is there any state I need activate on the block so it works?

[unkempt creek]

I noticed some change, does "north" is now a default state in cardinal_direction? If you do /setblock command without identifying states, it will be placed in default states right? I test it with the chest, it placed at north state.

This is why how my blocks look like inventory has been changed as well, they have been flipped backward. They now show their back, rather than the front, because my south state has 0,0,0 rotation.

[vestal marsh]

https://wiki.bedrock.dev/blocks/block-traits.html

All the default states

[unkempt creek]

I noticed that custom block's cardinal_direction default states is south, but for vanilla it's north. My blocks were look ok before in inventory, but for some reason they were flipped backwards right now, they now face away in the inventory. They still right when placed, it just how they render in inventory were changed. I never change anything yet.

[vestal marsh]

Which vanilla blocks did you test it on?

[unkempt creek]

Chest

[vestal marsh]

That seems right yes according to the mc wiki

[unkempt creek]

Probably the reason why vanilla default states is different is because they were called facing_direction before, and the values are numbers.

I think the reason why my blocks flipped backwards in inventory is because of the new item_display_transforms feature in blocks. Maybe it change how the blocks render in inventory. Because on stable mc, my blocks aren't flipped backwards.

[pliant rapids]

Anyone know why the top textures on blocks are flipped in game/does anyone else have this issue? As another weird thing, when I put those same blocks on a server, sometimes the blocks are as they appear in Blockbench, and different from in a single player world.

Left is how they appear in game and the right is how I have to set the textures in Blockbench in order to make them render correctly. Not sure if there's an easier way around this or if it's just a bug.

[toxic vortex]

you can always manually set the UVs

[steep breach]

hey, for making custom crops I saw there's a tutorial on the wiki but you need the holiday experimental features toggled, is there a way to do crops without this>

[solid matrix]

yo yo is there any tag for full_blocks ??

[cobalt granite]

Does anyone know what causes my block to have no shadows?(after getting rid of unit cube)
Even put a damping lvl of 15

[karmic lake]

Like this? For some reason when I put my capitals on blend they go very light coloured and you can’t see the detail.

[cobalt granite]

Yes they look light-colored like light passing through them

But I used opaque instead

[west rover]

remove minecraft:geometry and define the textures of your blocks in blocks.json it makes the shadows proper and corrects the display on inventory

[cobalt granite]

ok I'll try that instead thanks

[pliant rapids]

You mean using per-face UV in Blockbench?

[vestal marsh]

No

[toxic vortex]

Yes

[pliant rapids]

This is what I'm already doing. The blocks do not appear in-game as they do in Blockbench

[toxic vortex]

Maybe check the block's rotation in game and in blockbench

[pliant rapids]

This is not an issue exclusive to this block, it's something that I've noticed for a while, and it's inconsistently textured depending on the host type and I'm not sure why.

[toxic vortex]

Hmmm

Idk either

[small relic]

What's the best way to mimic the way vanilla flowers are offset randomly on a block?

[pine niche]

In the last beta did they remove the new features of the blocks?

[vestal marsh]

What new features?

[pine niche]

Forget it. I could already see what works.

[pine niche]

States, straits, permutations.

[unkempt creek]

None of them were removed.

[unkempt creek]

Create block with different states, each with different transformation-> translation component. Then using script custom components, you can place it on random states.

[bitter oracle]

what is the latest version of the supported block??

[vestal marsh]

1.20.80 - Stable
1.21.20 - Preview

[bitter oracle]

thanks

[tawny falcon]

I'm a little confused

I used this in my block in format 1.20.80 and it failed, it got an update texture

"minecraft:material_instances": {
"*": {
"texture": "copper_furnace_sides",
"render_method": "alpha_test"
},
"south": {
"texture": "copper_furnace_front",
"render_method": "alpha_test"
}
}

Do I need to add the indicators in the blocks.json file or do I necessarily need a geometry to use this format?

[vestal marsh]

You need the full block geometry

[tawny falcon]

I understand, thanks

[rugged galleon]

can we have slabs face the player (1.20.80)

gives error: [Molang][error]- | Error: query.block_state is making use of non-registered block state.
but I did add the trait direction and the permutations. What else is missing?

[desert vector]

"states" should be in the block description

[rugged galleon]

can I have 2 states then? because remember this is a slab and it already has a state as can be seen here:

   "format_version": "1.20.20",
   "minecraft:block": {
      "description": {
         "identifier": "vvelha:asfalto_faixa_pedestre",
         "menu_category": {
            "category": "construction",
            "group": "itemGroup.name.slab"
         },
         "traits": {
            "minecraft:placement_position": {
               "enabled_states": [
                  "minecraft:vertical_half"
               ]
            }
         },
         "minecraft:placement_direction": {
            "enabled_states": [
               "minecraft:cardinal_direction"
            ]
         }
      },
      "states": {
         "vvelha:double": [
            false,
            true
         ]
      },```

included the facing state, still no luck - but the real question is does bedrock support cardinal direction for slabs in 1.20.80?

[ebon laurel]

You have to use a vanilla state for block traits

you want minecraft:cardinal_direction

[rugged galleon]

that´s the first thing I used 😭 that bedrock complained... I think you can´t rotate slabs

[white bobcat]

You can rotate every block

[rugged galleon]

I am giving up as I just had the best idea.... just make 2 slab variations (Done)

[rugged galleon]

in 1.20.80?

[white bobcat]

in any version

Your json seems wrong to me

See where the description brackets end

That means that your block has 0 block states

Which means that all of this code is not being used a single time in your file