How to break blocks within a Bukkit plugin?

Hi,

I'm toying around with some ideas for plugins but I've run into a little snag, wondering if anyone has a solution/suggestions?

How to destroy a block ?

How I've currently been dealing with it is somethin of the likes of this:

Technically this does work and seems like the only way of doing it as far as I could find. However, with Minecraft 1.5 comes the Statistics feature. So any blocks for which breaking is "simulated" with the above steps is not counted as actually breaking a block

Is there a workaround or solution to this? How to make the block actually break (instead of turning it into air) or how to change the properties of a certain tool (make it mine REALLY fast for example)

 

Maybe getServer().getPluginManager().callEvent(new BlockBreakEvent(...));
I didn't try it, just guessing.

 

You might play around with onBlockDamage.

 

I've tried calling events the way shamebot said before, and personally haven't found it to work. However I have had success in calling a function directly from net.minecraft.server, I'd advise the block class, function a(World, EntityHuman, int,int,int,int) or b(World, int, int, int, EntityHuman) (those are the only two that seem to have a world, coordinates, and a player involved)

You could also use Player.incrimentStatistic(Statistic, Material, int).