Got a question to some devs

Alright a couple days ago i made a plugin that lets you break a cake and get a drop back. The thing is if you break a cake it gives a whole cake back. Now the thing i have been trying to figure out is if there is a way to possibly store the damage value of the cake so that if you eat the cake 1 time and put it down then you get a cake that`s been eaten 1 time. if anyone has any ideas i`d be glad to hear them and would really appreciate it. I should also point out that i still don`t know much java just enough to develop a simple plugin such as cakedrops xD

 

well, when you break it, then it will still look like the normal cake icon, but placing it again and having it slightly eaten might be possible. but it might not be worth the time you will have to put into it :|

 

yeah i was just wondering if it was possible because weapons and things store their damage values so im sure theres some way to store it.

 

I think its just a damage byte... Try block.setData((byte) 1); ?

 

ok well i get the general idea but im trying to store the damage byte not set it so maybe do something like
block.getData((byte){
and setting the value of the data it gathered to a string like maybe Damagevalue
and then when you place a cake having it recall Damagevalue?
dont know if that makes any sense im new to java i have coded a tiny bit of C# before but nothing significant