Getting World Time

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1

I am a newbie here, and I am doing some practices. A part of one of them is sending the player a message containing the current world time when he right clicks the air with a clock.
I can’t figure out how to check if the player right clicks the air and how to get world time, and I tried looking in the forums but could not find it.

Help would be appreciated :slight_smile:

2

Time is stored in the World Properties. So you need to get the players world, and get the properties based on that. One method is:

 Player player = (Player) src;
			    Sponge.getServer().getWorldProperties(player.getWorld().getName()).get().getWorldTime();```

src would be the proper listener you would need to use for to check if they clicked air. Probably an interact event.
3

Player clicking is InteractBlockEvent. You’re probably looking for InteractBlockEvent.Secondary since it’s right-clicking. This fires for each hand, so you’d check whether the player has the clock in the event-specific hand for that (or just use InteractBlockEvent.Secondary.MainHand and check both). World time is stored in the WorldProperties; get them through World#getProperties(). The method in this case is getWorldTime. Note that it’s not a 0-23999 value; it returns the total number of ticks since the world was initaliized.

So, in summary:

@Listener
public void onInteract(InteractBlockEvent.Secondary e, @First Player p) {
    Optional<ItemStack> stack = p.getItemInHand(e.getHandType());
    if (stack.isPresent() && stack.get().getItem().equals(ItemTypes.CLOCK)) {
        int time = (int) (p.getWorld().getProperties().getWorldTime() % 24000L);
        doSomethingInteresting(time);
    }
}

In case you’re wondering about the int cast, the world time is a long and we wouldn’t want to lose any information by converting to int until it’s definitely 0-23999.