chore: merge block entity tick methods

Merges #2517

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Harris-Rouquette <[email protected]>

Author: gabizou

build.gradle.kts

@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ tasks {
         options {
             (this as? StandardJavadocDocletOptions)?.apply {
                 links(
-                    "https://logging.apache.org/log4j/log4j-${libs.versions.log4j.get()}/log4j-api/apidocs/",
+                    "https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/javadoc/log4j-api/",
                     "https://google.github.io/guice/api-docs/${libs.versions.guice.get()}/javadoc/",
                     "https://configurate.aoeu.xyz/${libs.versions.configurate.get()}/apidocs/",
                     "https://www.javadoc.io/doc/com.google.code.gson/gson/${libs.versions.gson.get()}/",

src/main/java/org/spongepowered/api/block/entity/BlockEntity.java

@@ -67,6 +67,32 @@ public interface BlockEntity extends SerializableDataHolder.Mutable, Locatable {
      */
     void remove();
 
+    /**
+     * Returns whether this block entity can tick.
+     *
+     * @return True if this block entity can tick
+     */
+    boolean canTick();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns whether this block entity is ticking.
+     *
+     * @return True if this block entity is ticking
+     */
+    boolean isTicking();
+
+    /**
+     * Attempts to set if this block entity will naturally tick.
+     *
+     * <p>This will return <code>false</code>
+     * if {@link #isRemoved()} returns <code>true</code>
+     * or {@link #canTick()} returns <code>false</code></p>
+     *
+     * @param ticking The ticking state
+     * @return True if ticking state was successfully set
+     */
+    boolean setTicking(boolean ticking);
+
     /**
      * Gets the type of {@link BlockEntity} this is.
      *