[1.8] Village Building Problems

[TrekkieCub314]

I'm having a few problems when trying to create a custom building in a village.

 

1) I'm trying to make the structure out of Polished Andesite.  Unfortunately, some of the blocks are being replaced with ores, gravel, other stone types, etc.  I think the problem is the order in which certain items are created in the world, with ores being generated after villages and the ore generation replacing some stone blocks, regardless of block state.  Is there a workaround for this that doesn't involve modification of vanilla files?

 

2) Some of the blocks within the building are not rotating correctly with the building.  Some, like stairs and torches, are rotating correctly, but chests and trapdoors aren't.  Considering furnaces and chests in vanilla village buildings aren't consistently rotating either, this looks like a problem with vanilla Minecraft itself.  Has anyone found a workaround?

 

3) How do I change which blocks are being used to construct the building depending on the current biome?  I'm not sure how to find the current position in the world where the structure is being spawned.  If I knew how to do that, I could probably find the local biome with the World object.  I know vanilla villages, at some point, had a method where all of the various materials in a village would be replaced with their desert counterparts if the village was in a desert, but I forgot where that was located and don't know how to make it change my building.

 

If anyone can help with these issues I'd greatly appreciate it!

[TrekkieCub314]

Anyone?  If one of these can be resolved by digging a little deeper (aka me being either lazy or stupid) please go ahead and tell me so I can try to get these resolved.

[microjunk]

Im sure you solved this by now, sorry its so late responding found it looking for something else unrelated.

 

Anyway for number one, I have the same issue, I dont know yet what causes it

 

for number two there is more than one way to get metadata. Have a look in the block class for each block you are having trouble with, thats where I found my answers.

 

For number three the answer is in the village class of the structurevillagepieces class.

[Draco18s]

#2 has to do with the fact that the block decides on its own metadata after being placed, ignoring the metadata passed to the setBlock method.  Just do world.setBlockMetadata(...) afterwards.