in vanilla, it appears to behave as if the player always clicked on the up face if a block was replaced.
In PM, we were still using the original face, which caused bugs when, for example, placing a button next to a wall by clicking on the side of tallgrass. The button would replace the tallgrass, but stick to the wall, instead of placing itself on the ground like vanilla expects.
This may appear unusual to anyone who also happens to implement canBePlacedAt(), since the facing behaviour will be different. However, this behaviour appears to match vanilla, and even slabs (which I feared might break because of this change) work perfectly.
In the future, it may be desirable to pass some other value here, such as null, to indicate that the clicked block is being replaced. However, that's a BC break and therefore outside of the scope of a stable bug fix.
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.
fixes#4856fixes#458fixes#4529fixes#3299
Added API method Block::getSupportType(Facing) : SupportType
Added SupportType enum
fixes torch, lantern, door etc. placement on slabs and upside-down stairs
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.
