How to make terraria-like block placement

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:bust_in_silhouette: Asked By a human

I was wondering how I could make it so when you clicked on the screen a block would go to location of the mouse and then lock onto other blocks

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:bust_in_silhouette: Reply From: Dlean Jeans

TileMap has a world_to_map() function which you could pass in the mouse position and get the cell position:

var block_position = $TileMap.world_to_map(get_global_mouse_position())
$TileMap.set_cellv(block_position, GRASS_BLOCK)

With that, I guess you can place a block mid-air so you need to check if there’s any blocks around that:

const DIRECTIONS = [Vector2.UP, Vector2.DOWN, Vector2.LEFT, Vector2.RIGHT]

func exists_block_around(block_position:Vector2):
  for dir in DIRECTIONS:
    if $TileMap.get_cellv(block_position + dir) != TileMap.INVALID_CELL:
      return true
    return false

var block_position = $TileMap.world_to_map(get_global_mouse_position())
if exists_block_around(block_position):
  $TileMap.set_cellv(block_position, GRASS_BLOCK)

You’ll also need to check the mouse distance to player but I think that’s easy enough for anyone to write.