How to make a block hold custom data?

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Hello!

I’m trying to make a tile entity hold a class I’ve made. The tile entity already has functions that get called when right clicked, so I want to stop those from from calling as well. How do I give an already defined block new functionality and data to store?

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Typically you would use the DataAPI The Data API — Sponge 7.2.0 documentation however I don’t believe that it works with TileEntities (I maybe wrong in which case use that)

So I would store it seperatly such as a map that contains the key of the location of the block with the value being your custom class.

As for cancelling a tile entity function. Assuming that the block agrees with Forge’s event cancelling (all vanilla blocks do) then you can cancel the interaction event between a player and the block

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How do I cancel the interaction event between the player and block specifically? I have a listener set up to detect when the player right clicks and what they right click on. Is it something like that?

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You are correct. Im assuming its not working, so my question is what block is it and from what mod?

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It’s the pixelmon:poke_gift block. I’m just trying to use a version of it as a container that will store/give a single pokemon

I have this code:
@Listener public void onUse(InteractBlockEvent.Secondary event) { BlockSnapshot bss = event.getTargetBlock(); bss.getExtendedState().getType() }

That will detect what block is being interacted with, but I don’t know what code to put in here to stop the normal code path of the block that goes through.

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event.setCancelled(true);
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That worked perfectly. Thank you so much dude!

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