Directional Blocks

Requires ItemsAdder 4.0.10 or greater

Warning

Creating directional blocks will occupy 4 or 6 slots per block. This happens because each direction is a different block.

There is no way to bypass that. It's a limitation of the game and any other content creation plugin would have this limitation. You should not abuse directional blocks because they quickly will saturate your custom blocks usages.

FURNACE and DROPPER won't act like the vanilla machinery. They are just names to easily understand the type of block rotation.

Directional mode

Mode ALL

Act like a vanilla log and a dropper at the same time.

  directional_block_all:
    name: directional_block_all
    resource:
      material: PAPER
      generate: true
      textures:
      - block/furnace/directional_block_test_down.png
      - block/furnace/directional_block_test_east.png
      - block/furnace/directional_block_test_north.png
      - block/furnace/directional_block_test_south.png
      - block/furnace/directional_block_test_up.png
      - block/furnace/directional_block_test_west.png
    specific_properties:
      block:
        placed_model:
          type: REAL_NOTE
          directional_mode: ALL

Mode FURNACE

Act like vanilla furnace.

  directional_block_furnace:
    name: directional_block_furnace
    resource:
      material: PAPER
      generate: true
      textures:
      - block/furnace/directional_block_test_down.png
      - block/furnace/directional_block_test_east.png
      - block/furnace/directional_block_test_north.png
      - block/furnace/directional_block_test_south.png
      - block/furnace/directional_block_test_up.png
      - block/furnace/directional_block_test_west.png
    specific_properties:
      block:
        placed_model:
          type: REAL_NOTE
          directional_mode: FURNACE

Mode LOG

Act like vanilla logs.

  directional_block_log:
    name: directional_block_log
    resource:
      material: PAPER
      generate: true
      textures:
      - block/log/directional_block_test_down.png
      - block/log/directional_block_test_east.png
      - block/log/directional_block_test_north.png
      - block/log/directional_block_test_south.png
      - block/log/directional_block_test_up.png
      - block/log/directional_block_test_west.png
    specific_properties:
      block:
        placed_model:
          type: REAL_NOTE
          directional_mode: LOG

Mode DROPPER

Acts like the vanilla dropper.

In this particular case I decided to overwrite the automatically generated directional blocks up and down to customize the appearance of the block in this particular case, setting a different texture for the north face (front). In the screenshot you can see the face texture is different.

  directional_block_dropper:
    name: directional_block_dropper
    resource:
      material: PAPER
      generate: true
      textures:
      - block/dropper/directional_block_test_down.png
      - block/dropper/directional_block_test_east.png
      - block/dropper/directional_block_test_north.png
      - block/dropper/directional_block_test_south.png
      - block/dropper/directional_block_test_up.png
      - block/dropper/directional_block_test_west.png
    specific_properties:
      block:
        placed_model:
          type: REAL_NOTE
          directional_mode: DROPPER
  directional_block_dropper_up:
    name: directional_block_dropper_up
    resource:
      material: PAPER
      generate: true
      textures:
      - block/dropper/directional_block_test_down.png
      - block/dropper/directional_block_test_east.png
      - block/dropper/directional_block_test_north_variant.png
      - block/dropper/directional_block_test_south.png
      - block/dropper/directional_block_test_up.png
      - block/dropper/directional_block_test_west.png
    specific_properties:
      block:
        placed_model:
          type: REAL_NOTE
  directional_block_dropper_down:
    name: directional_block_dropper_down
    resource:
      material: PAPER
      generate: true
      textures:
      - block/dropper/directional_block_test_down.png
      - block/dropper/directional_block_test_east.png
      - block/dropper/directional_block_test_north_variant.png
      - block/dropper/directional_block_test_south.png
      - block/dropper/directional_block_test_up.png
      - block/dropper/directional_block_test_west.png
    specific_properties:
      block:
        placed_model:
          type: REAL_NOTE

Manually create models

ItemsAdder automatically rotates your base block model, but you can provide your custom variants of the models for each rotation, to enhance the customization.

In my example I did that to customize the model of the DROPPER example when placed down or up.

To do that you have to append the _<face> text after the id of your custom block.

Accepted faces are:

• north

• east

• south

• west

• up

• down

In my example I used directional_block_dropper_up (_up) and directional_block_dropper_down (_down) for the block directional_block_dropper.