the following things are currently not implemented:
- particle/sound effects when an entity extinguishes itself
- particle/sound effects when mixing different stuff in a cauldron
- powder snow cauldron
both of these things are contingent on #5169, but for the time being, the PR is functionally complete and I want to move on to something else without being stalled by the particle+sound problem (which I haven't yet decided how to solve).
Bedrock block entity updates don't directly trigger block rendering
updates. This is a problem when the block entity data affects the
block's appearance directly (e.g. cauldron water colour, flower pot
contents), because it means changing them won't directly result in a
client-side render update.
This hack allows tiles to spoof block updates without actually changing
the server-side block, keeping the internals and API clean of random
shitbox workarounds.
fixes#5174fixes#4944
the old impl prevented registering more than one meta -> state mapping since the legacy numeric ID map would throw an exception if attempting to map the same ID more than once.
this was making it inconvenient for plugins to use BlockIdMetaUpgrader->addMapping(), because the block legacy ID map contains IDs up to 1.16, but the table of mapped 1.12 blockstates only goes up to ... well ... 1.12. This left a gap of several versions' blocks unable to be mapped.
closes#5154
this hack sends only the bare essential data to create the tiles in LevelChunkPacket,
and then separately sending the full tile data using BlockActorDataPacket afterwards.
This is necessary because the client doesn't handle items correctly in NBT when chunks are sent without using the SubChunkRequest system.
In 4.6 this is observed with incorrect items shown in item frames; in 5.0 it's seen with items simply not showing up at all (difference due to modernization of the serialization format in 5.0).
this allows stuff like smithing tables to work without needing any extra hacks.
Implementing enchanting or anvils would require some extra work, but I don't plan to implement those under the legacy transaction system anyway.
