REQUEST: Placeholder for Viewed Block

[AuWiMo]

I would very much like a placeholder that identifies the block the player is looking at. Would you add this?

[Wundero]

There isn't really a good way to get the block the player is looking at. What needs to be done for this becomes computationally expensive, and so making it a placeholder (especially if it has to be called upon numerous times / second) doesn't make that much sense. If Sponge implements something for this on their end, I would gladly expose it, but until then I would like to try to keep PlaceholderAPI fairly lean on the server.

[AuWiMo]

Minecraft shows you the block you are looking at when you click f3. Is that not enough?

[ronaldburns]

I'm not sure if the API exposes it, though.

[Wundero]

The sponge API doesn't have a 'looking at block' feature, since the one the F3 screen uses is client side. If sponge or placeholderapi were to expose a value, it would have to use ray tracing, rather than just the value used in F3, since it is not made available. Spigot, from what I am aware, removed support for block looking at due to this reason. I will consider implementing a ray tracing algorithm to do it but I will separate it as a placeholder and have it default to off if I do make it.