the terminology of this needs improvement, but...
the basic concept here is that 'type' data will persist on an itemstack, while 'state' data will not.
Type data consists of things like:
- Colour
- Coral type
- Wet/dry (sponges)
- Live/dead (coral)
- Wood type
State data consists of things like:
- Facing
- Axis
- Powered/unpowered
- Open/closed
In the past, with the old system, this information was separated by way of getStateBitmask(). This solution was fraught with problems, but achieved the basic goal: removing unwanted block properties from items.
This commit completely revamps the way that blocks are represented in memory at runtime.
Instead of being represented by legacy Mojang block IDs and metadata, which are dated, limited and unchangeable, we now use custom PM block IDs, which are generated from VanillaBlocks.
This means we have full control of how they are assigned, which opens the doors to finally addressing inconsistencies like glazed terracotta, stripped logs handling, etc.
To represent state, BlockDataReader and BlockDataWriter have been introduced, and are used by blocks with state information to pack said information into a binary form that can be stored on a chunk at runtime.
Conceptually it's pretty similar to legacy metadata, but the actual format shares no resemblance whatsoever to legacy metadata, and is fully controlled by PM.
This means that the 'state data' may change in serialization format at any time, so it should **NOT** be stored on disk or in a config.
In the future, this will be improved using more auto-generated code and attributes, instead of hand-baked decodeState() and encodeState(). For now, this opens the gateway to a significant expansion of features.
It's not ideal, but it's a big step forwards.
this doesn't implement the server-side logic for the "stickiness" (slowdown) because we don't have the system needed for it yet.
It also doesn't have parity with vanilla on the damage.
this implementation is working, although incomplete:
- The shulker close sound should not be played until the end of the shulker closing animation, which takes approximately 1 second.
- An open shulker box has a different collision box than a closed one - it should be +0.5 in whichever direction the shulker is facing. (During the animation, the bounding box also dynamically changes size - you can see this in vanilla by shooting an arrow into the top of an open shulkerbox facing UP, and then closing it - the arrow will fall and collide with the lid multiple times.
However, resolving both of these issues requires significant internal changes which are beyond the scope of this PR.
this isn't practical to fully implement right now due to limitations
imposed by the legacy shitfest system we're using. To make stripped
dynamic, we would need to switch the IDs _and_ variant info dynamically,
and I have no idea what bizarre side effects that might have.
this implementation is very rough due to having to hack around lots more MCPE bullshit, and currently doesn't allow dynamic coral types; but it's there. We'll clean this up after 1.13 migration is done.
mushroom stem (and all-sided stem) are unique blocks, which don't drop anything and which don't stack with other shroom variants when block-picked.
They also get mapped to the same block when placed, and there's no distinction between red mushroom stem and brown mushroom stem.
when using VanillaBlocks::CHISELED_QUARTZ(), VanillaBlocks::PURPUR_PILLAR() or VanillaBlocks::QUARTZ_PILLAR(), static analysis was unable to detect getAxis() and setAxis(), because these blocks were implemented using anonymous classes.
there are some complications with coral plants due to the fact we're stuck with R12 worlds right now - and also coral fans are a major pain to implement due to how messed up the metadata is.
Not allowing this makes stuff like anvil damage, colour, wood type, live/dead bit, wet/dry etc all too much hassle to deal with.
Naturally I want to get rid of this shit altogether, but first it's necessary to construct a new system that we can shift into before all this bullshit can be addressed fully, so for now we have to work within the bounds of the old system.
This change will permit dynamic colours for concrete/concrete powder etc, dynamic wood types where the wood type isn't embedded in the legacy ID, and so forth. Allowing full flexibility requires either more old system hacks or completing the migration to a new system which doesn't have these limitations. I prefer to do the latter, but this change will make it somewhat easier to do.
