REQUEST: Placeholder for Viewed Block about placeholderapi HOT 4 OPEN

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.

from placeholderapi.

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

from placeholderapi.

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

from placeholderapi.

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.

from placeholderapi.