Hey everyone, you won't believe it, the timber blocks I wrote about in 2 blog posts already need even more work.
I just had finished them and was thinking about implementing a way to rotate them and place them rotated in the world when I received the message that in the upcoming Minecraft version 1.13 my code wouldn't be valid anymore and I would have to rework them anyway.
The issue is, that in 1.13 Minecraft will remove metadata from the blocks, and, therefore, blocks which are combined in several blockstates won't be valid anymore
Therefore, I rewrote our code and found also some small places which need additional work.
Part 1:
First of all, I had the block
Which automatically enables me to rotate the block on placement.
The connection calc I have shown in the last post had to be extended by the x and z-axis as well.
And, since I didn't need to implement any subblocks anymore (since that will be considered bad style in 1.13)
I was able to scrap a ton of code.
This also enabled me to fit all the registering of the over 64 blocks into 2 nice loops.
Where we go through all types of wood and all types of timbers we have.
Besides that, I had to fix the schematic sending messages after the message rework.
The schematic message hadn't been working correctly on the server thread as it was supposed to work on and it had become a clientThread message in the automatic refactoring.
Therefore, I removed the client/server side checks adapted the message name and used the player object directly to send the messages.
This is also way cleaner now than it was before.
Part 2:
In the second part, I reworked some important code where we teleport players.
We had two main issues.
- Randomly teleporting players outside of the world border in certain worlds
- Killing players when teleporting them between Dimensions.
This code has been stale for a while since we've waited for a fix on the side of Sponge, just to notice, thanks to 
The main issue was that forge requires the player to be connected to a portal block when teleporting between dimensions which can be lost after a restart.
First of all, I disabled the random teleport in other dimensions.
Since I was messing around there already I improved the random teleport code so it places player guaranteed close to a spot where there is no close colony around.
Previously we only placed them outside of a colony.
/* Check for a close by colony*/
if (BlockPosUtil.getDistance2D(colony.getCenter(), tpPos) < Configurations.gameplay.workingRangeTownHall * 2 + Configurations.gameplay.townHallPadding)
{
continue;
}
By checking twice the colony size + the padding.
Then, I went to our colony teleportation code between dimensions.
First I built in a safeguard since people might try to teleport to not existing colonies.
To avoid any crashes.
Then I copied over some vanilla code they use to teleport between dimensions.
And last but not least I was able to remove the old safeguard which didn't help us very well since it was checking for the existence of the colony too late.
Additionally, I improved our inventory code to use existing constants.
And removed code which was causing crashes for a few of our clients.
Finally, we set up a new schematics server which is accessible for all our Patreons since we needed a central place to maintain the structures our colonists build and live in.
So we also fixed a bunch of schematics on the way.
I hope you like our progress, we're currently working on some huge changes which will be great of our mod, so the general updates I'm posting are more bug related since I have no time to work on additional features.
But, I should be able to deliver some great features during the next weeks!
Until then =D
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