Get player who threw snowball to block

Hello,

I want to make a plugin, which interacts when a player throw a snowball at a specific block (like lapis). When a snowball hit that specific block, the plugin should get the player who threw it and then interact with it.

Is this possible and if so, any hints, so I can get started?

Thanks.

 

To get the "shooter" of the snowball is no problem but the block the snoball hits is. I tried that once but I failed :-/

 

Use "ProjectileLaunchEvent" and get the 'Entity' (player in this case) who is involved. Check if the projectile shot was a snowball.
Then use "ProjectileHitEvent" and get the block/entity that was hit.

Edit: as AmShaegar says, I did take a look at getting the block that was involved and it doesn't seem possible. It only looks like you can get the entity that was involved.

 

not an easy task, it is possible but not something you could write up in a few minutes. You would need to calculate the snowballs trajectory and find the first block it hits, then check wether or not it is a lapis block etc

 

Sadly, the ProjectileHitEvent does not have a getHitBlock() method.

 

Thank you for all these answers. I will try something.

I know it's possible, because I know someone did it.

 

If you were to use get target block you'd have to use some calculating and stuff :/