Avoid drops on .breakNaturally()

Hey,

how do I avoid drops when I use breakNaturally()? I have to remove some chests with my code but replacing them by air causes the client to crash occasionally. This is why I need to use breakNaturally(). But I do not want the chests to get dropped. I know I have to cancel the ItemSpawnEvent or remove the item from it but how do I detect that it is my chest?

Chests are at random positions and I do not want every chest to drop nothing. Just those which are broken by my plugin.

 

Get the chest and clear it's contents, then use breakNaturally? Or if you also don't want the actual chest to drop, see if setting it to air without any items still crashes the client.

 

It does crash the clients occasionally. Let me make this clear: I already clear the content. I am talking just about the chests which are dropped not about the content.

This is the bug: https://bukkit.atlassian.net/browse/BUKKIT-346

 

This issue is still unsolved for me. Is there no native way to do this?

 

Block break event? Pretty sure it's called, not sure though

 

breakNaturally() does not trigger any events afaik. BlockBreakEvent and ItemSpawnEvent already tested.

 

Could just get items within a block and remove it if it's a chest...

Other than that, just find another way to remove chests.

 

Okay so a possible solution should be removing all ItemStacks of type Chest within a certain radius - 1 block is not enough, I've seen them spawning at least 2 blocks aways.

Well, which one? If I knew of one, I wouldn't ask. Replacing them by another block occasionally crashes clients...