Spawning falling sand with only Bukkit

Is there a way to spawn falling sand with using only Bukkit classes (no CB)?

 

I've already got (pretty much) the same thread up here: http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/issues-with-sand.61256/

Though if you're only looking for sand that falls to the ground, just spawn a sand block and let physics do the rest.

 

This might work (have not tryed it myself).

Code:

World.spawn(Location, FallingSand.class);

Edit: Yea, it does not work...

 

Taco I'm looking something similar to you, to control velcoity of sand.

Ranzdo it does not work, since you have to specify sand material when spawning it.

 

FallingSand.class throws an error because it doesn't properly implement the net.minecraft class EntityFallingBlock.

 

I have realized now that my CB-based code also don't work (similar to yours)

 

Here's an old pull request, the code to spawn a FallingSand probably still works.
https://github.com/Bukkit/CraftBukkit/pull/419

 

Nope. I'm using same method (create EntitySand and add it to CraftWorld) and nothing happens. However it worked before.

 

https://github.com/Bukkit/mc-dev/blob/master/net/minecraft/server/BlockSand.java#L31
That's how minecraft does it.

 

I was about to post the very same link
Anyway, CB modifies it a little bit. That's how they do it:
https://github.com/Bukkit/CraftBukk.../java/net/minecraft/server/BlockSand.java#L32
(just another metadata parameter in the constructor, dunno if the vanilla one from mc-dev works as well).