What would be the best option?

I'm currently remaking tetris for minecraft, and i'm starting to think about how i should handle the game timers.
I first thought of using simple timers (bukkit's build-in timer, new Timer() etc), but i'm not sure if that would work well
Second i thought of starting an thread, which i suppose is the best option becouse it doesn't eat from the main thread.

Maybe theres even an better option, but i'm not 100% into java yet, so if you know better solutions, tell me ^^

FYI, this is for the main game loop (checking for lines, letting the blocks fall etc)

 

Maybe just a main thread (every 500ms), that ticks your scripts?

 

No. Always, always use Bukkit's scheduler. Minecraft's code is not thread-safe and doing almost anything in a separate thread will lead to calamity.

 

I would suggest calling it something other than "Tetris" Copyrights hehe, but cool idea. I agree with SpaceManiac. I tried to use separate threads and it didn't work real well, massive problems.