Placing custom skin skulls as blocks

Hello, quick question for a plugin i'm currently working on, wanted to see if anyone has any ideas on solving it

Okay so, my idea is that when a player dies, it creates a skull with their player's head skin and then places it (as a SKULL type block) on the ground where they died.

Basically, right now I can create the skull ENTITY/ItemStack with the custom player skin, but at the moment I can only drop the skull item itself to the ground, not place it as a block. I know it's possible, because I can pick this item up and place it on the ground manually as a block and see that it is indeed my player skin. However, I want to be able to do this programmatically.

I've come across a function under the CraftItemStack class called placeItem(EntityHuman, World, int i, int j, int k, int l, float f, float f1, float f2), maybe this could have something to do with it?

Any help is greatly appreciated, and i'm sure other people will be wondering how to do this in the future!

 

set the location where the player died as the skull

 

If you want to place an ItemStack as a block, simply:

Code:

Location loc = player.getLocation();
Block b = player.getWorld().getBlockAt(loc);
b.setType(itemstack);

 

Vandrake - The question was HOW not WHAT to do. He knows WHAT he wants to do, just not HOW.
Muizers - There is no Block.setType(ItemStack) method.

To solve this you do need to access CB methods, as there is currently no Skull BlockState.

Code:

public void placeSkullBlock(Block skullBlock, String playerName) {
    // Set the block to a generic skull. This will create the tile entity ready for editing
    skullBlock.setTypeIdAndData(Material.SKULL.getId(), (byte) 1, true);
 
    // Grab the tile entity for the skull through CB
    TileEntitySkull tileentityskull = (TileEntitySkull) ((CraftWorld) skullBlock.getWorld()).getHandle().getTileEntity(skullBlock.getX(), skullBlock.getY(), skullBlock.getZ());
   
    // Set the skull type to 3 (Human) and give the owner's name to give it that player's skin
    tileentityskull.setSkullType(3, playerName);
 
    // Save changes to the tile entity
    tileentityskull.update();
}

 

I'm very sorry I don't have time to read your full post, I am sorry I meant Block.setType(Material) of course

 

http://jd.bukkit.org/apidocs/org/bukkit/block/Skull.html

cameron5906 assuming you have Location loc, the location of the skull

Code:java

Block b = loc.getBlock();
if(b.getType() == Material.SKULL)
{
    Skull skull = (Skull)b.getState();
    skull.setSkullType(SkullType.PLAYER);
    skull.setOwner("SomeName");
    skull.update(true);
}

 

Using CB version 1.4.6 and onwards you should use this approach and not mine. Mine is strictly for 1.4 up to 1.4.5 before the Skull blockstate was introduced. You should never use CB methods unless you have to as every CB update will break your plugin if you do!