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I've made the Picker mod which behaves like the middle mouse button in Minecraft: put your cursor over an entity and activate Picker with a hotkey, and it selects the corresponding item from your inventory. I'd like to extend it to be able to pick stone, concrete, and hazard concrete as well, but I don't see how to do it. I'm using player.selected to get the entity currently under the cursor--is there a corresponding pointer to the tile under the cursor?

I thought I found the answer with player.cursor_position, but that's a write-only property. I guess there are synchronization issues?

You can't. The mouse position is not part of the game state and as such can't be read from mods.

Rseding91 wrote:You can't. The mouse position is not part of the game state and as such can't be read from mods.

Thanks for the definitive answer.

Rseding91 wrote:You can't. The mouse position is not part of the game state and as such can't be read from mods.

Then what is the point of cursor_position?

DedlySpyder wrote:

Rseding91 wrote:You can't. The mouse position is not part of the game state and as such can't be read from mods.

Then what is the point of cursor_position?

It's write only. It was put in to make the game trailer and never removed.