Solved Persistent metadata for blocks

Hello! I've got a quick question with a most likely long answer: I need to know how to make a block's metadata persistent. I've been looking around, and I've seen a lot of people ask, but not a lot of people answer. I was thinking NBT tags, but I can't think of a way to bind that to a block!

Thanks!
-Hydroxocobalamin (OCHbl)

 

just save the metadata (or I should say what your PUTTING in the metadata) to a file (I'd say a YAML file )

 

TheCodingCat Alright. I'm just trying to find a good way to store inventories. I've seen a lot of tutorials, but none of which (That I've seen) support Item metadata for inventory contents.

 

You can use fixed metadata, the documentation says that it is a constant value, however, the meaning of that is ambiguous. Give it a try.

 

xTrollxDudex I'm currently using FixedMetadataValues, but they aren't persistent.

Code:java

block.setMetadata("dworks_name", new FixedMetadataValue(CustomItemsPlugin.instance, name));

Then, I restart the server and check if the block has a dworks_name metadata. It does not.

 

Ah, that is unfortunate... You could just associate a particular item with the data yourself, as that could be put into a config...

 

xTrollxDudex Alright. Thanks for your help, anyways!