Solved Chest Contents

How would I get all the contents in a chest and then calling them to Item. I want to be able to shoot the items out of a chest into the sky.

 

Cast the block to Chest and use chest.getBlockInventory()

 

Code:

    /*
     * import org.bukkit.block.Block;
     * import org.bukkit.block.Chest;
     * import org.bukkit.entity.Item;
     * import org.bukkit.inventory.ItemStack;
     * import org.bukkit.util.Vector;
     */
  
    public void explodeChest(Block b) {
       // check if block is a chest
        if(b.getState() instanceof Chest) {

            // get the content of the chest and clone it
            ItemStack[] items = ((Chest) b.getState()).getInventory().getContents().clone();

            // clear the content of the chest (prevent duplication)
            ((Chest) b.getState()).getInventory().clear();

            // iterate through all items
            for(ItemStack item : items) {
                // prevent nullpointer exception from empty slots
                if(item != null) {
                    // drop item one block above the chest
                    Item i = b.getWorld().dropItem(b.getLocation().add(0, 1, 0), item);
                    // add upwards velocity to the item
                    i.setVelocity(new Vector(0,.5,0));
                }
            }
      
        }  
    }

 

Dude. Really?!?!

 

! Spoonfeed alert !

 

He just wanted to help...

@undeaD_D I suggest you comment your code to explain what it does. That way it's not 100% spoonfeeding. Thank you for helping

 

@Signatured It's still spoonfeeding even if you comment your code.

 

At least he will know what he's doing rather than just copy/pasting.

 

@Signatured But he could still just copy and paste and not read the comments. The best thing to do is just give him 'pseudocode' instructions.

 

@FisheyLP Thanks, I tried basically that but I forgot the BlockInventory part.

@undeaD_D
How would I go about shooting the items slower, like instead of shooting them all at once?

 

@Coopah
Make a repeating task (and cancel it if the chest is empty)

 

@FisheyLP
Yes, but how would I shoot the items out individually?

 

@Coopah get the first item from a list of all items, shoot it, remove it from list and repeat

 

Inside the repeating task
Loop through the items -> if it is not air -> shoot it -> remove the item from inventory -> break;