Also get the block face when breaking a block using a tool

[Astavie]

Hello! If I've read this correctly, only the block location gets put on the stack. But if you, say, want to make a spell to mine a 3x3 area upon breaking a block, having the block face available would also be very handy. Right now I can compare the block position to the player's position, i suppose, but that gives unexpected directions when mining at a grazing angle.

[arconyx]

I know exactly what you mean - I've had the same problem when making the same spell. I think I solved it then with Architect's Distillation but as you note there can be some awkward edge cases.

I think this would be a good change - I've been wary of adding an excessive amount of information to the stack but people can always just ignore the bits they don't want.

As this would risk breaking existing hexes I will want to bundle it with some other breaking changes I have in mind, which I'm afraid means you'll be waiting awhile (mostly for my somewhat mercurial interest to return to this project, to be frank), but this issue means I won't forget.

Thanks for the suggestion! It's nice to see people interested in my little creation.

[MeeperCreep]

Hi! Just wanna comment that I've remedied this issue by using Conjure Block + Architect's Distillation to effectively get the blockface of the mined block!

If I may share, I've actually managed to code an imbued hex that mines out a specified area relative to the face direction! scribbles here.

While getting the block face of a broken block might be convenient, there are already work arounds like my solution, so I think getting just the vector coords is enough, and keeps the tool simple.

But... idea! Reflections that only the tool can use based on the broken block! So instead of initializing the stack with vector iotas and such, the caster can choose to reflect to get those iotas in the hex itself! Don't know how complex it would be to implement but just throwing it out there!

[arconyx]

Oh now that would be elegant...
Thanks for chiming in!