Cloning a block with all block data

Suppose I have a block at a Location, and I want to copy that block, block data, faces, and all, to another Location.
How would I do that?
Using getTypeID and getData and using those values to setTypeID and setData doesn't seem to do anything.
It would be nice if somebody could provide a basic example.
Thanks in advance!

 

Hmm...
I wrote up some code to do this, and it works fine for the most part. It's a bit buggy with signs, messing with the collision barrier and sign information. Here's the code I wrote:

Code:java

@EventHandler
public void onPlayerInteract(PlayerInteractEvent e){
Block block1 = e.getClickedBlock();
Location l = e.getClickedBlock().getLocation();
l.setY(e.getClickedBlock().getY() - 1);
Block block2 = l.getBlock();
block2.setData(block1.getData());
block2.setType(block1.getType());
 
}

My guess would be that you would need to move either the state or the tile entity over to the new block after checking if the block is applicable. I'm not sure if there are methods that do this, so you may need to set the information manually for each block type (signs, chests, etc.).

 

Can anybody provide any code to get the data from chests, signs, etc...? For signs, Sign.Clone() may be usable, except I can't find anything about usage in the documentation...

 

get the BlockState. Problem solved

 

I can't test this right now, so would the code look something like this:

Code:

@EventHandler
public void onPlayerInteract(PlayerInteractEvent e){
Block block1 = e.getClickedBlock();
Location l = e.getClickedBlock().getLocation();
l.setY(e.getClickedBlock().getY() - 1);
Block block2 = l.getBlockState().getBlock();
block2.setData(block1.getBlockState().getData());
block2.setType(block1.getBlockState().getType());
 
}

 

vemacs no BlockState was more for storing a copy. If you want to just set the type and data, use setTypeIdAndData(int id, byte data)

 

Would you mind providing an example?

 

block2.setTypeIdAndData(block1.getTypeId(), block1.getData());

 

So would this also store the data for note blocks, signs, chests, etc..?

 

no. I have no clue how to actually copy over the BlockState. The only thing I know requires a lot of if-statements. Maybe set the x, y and z of the BlockState to the place where it should be copied, and call .update(true)

 

I'm currently looking thru the CreeperHeal code, as that does something similar.