New monster doesn't attack player.

[Kiryu144]

I'm adding a new enemy to the game. But when I spawn it, it doesn't attack the player, even though I added the corresponding target selector. I borrowoed most of it from the ZombieEntity class.

Here is the class:

public class AngrySubEntity extends MonsterEntity {

    public AngrySubEntity(EntityType<? extends AngrySubEntity> type, World worldIn)
    {
        super(type, worldIn);

        this.goalSelector.addGoal(8, new LookAtGoal(this, PlayerEntity.class, 8.0F));
        this.goalSelector.addGoal(8, new LookRandomlyGoal(this));

        this.goalSelector.addGoal(7, new WaterAvoidingRandomWalkingGoal(this, 1.0D));
        this.targetSelector.addGoal(2, new NearestAttackableTargetGoal<>(this, PlayerEntity.class, true));
    }

    public static AttributeModifierMap.MutableAttribute createAttributes()
    {
        return MonsterEntity.func_234295_eP_()
                .createMutableAttribute(Attributes.FOLLOW_RANGE, 35.0D)
                .createMutableAttribute(Attributes.MOVEMENT_SPEED, 0.23F)
                .createMutableAttribute(Attributes.ATTACK_DAMAGE, 3.0D)
                .createMutableAttribute(Attributes.ARMOR, 2.0D);
    }

    protected int getExperiencePoints(PlayerEntity player)
    {
        return 0;
    }

    public boolean attackEntityFrom(DamageSource source, float amount)
    {
        if (!super.attackEntityFrom(source, amount))
        {
            return false;
        }
        else return this.world instanceof ServerWorld;
    }

    protected SoundEvent getHurtSound(DamageSource damageSourceIn)
    {
        return SoundEvents.ENTITY_ZOMBIE_HURT;
    }

    protected SoundEvent getStepSound()
    {
        return SoundEvents.ENTITY_ZOMBIE_STEP;
    }

    protected void playStepSound(BlockPos pos, BlockState blockIn)
    {
        this.playSound(this.getStepSound(), 0.15F, 1.0F);
    }
}

 

[Silverminer]

You should register your goals in #registerGoals instead of your constructor. I'm not sure, but i think you should have an attack goal too (In zombie it is ZombieAttackGoal). If it still doesn't work, please post more code (or a github link). Hope i can help

[Kiryu144]

45 minutes ago, Silverminer said:

You should register your goals in #registerGoals instead of your constructor. I'm not sure, but i think you should have an attack goal too (In zombie it is ZombieAttackGoal). If it still doesn't work, please post more code (or a github link). Hope i can help

Thank you, now with those changes added, my entity now follows the player, like it tries to attack, but doesn't actually attack.

@Override
protected void registerGoals() {
  super.registerGoals();

  this.goalSelector.addGoal(8, new LookAtGoal(this, PlayerEntity.class, 8.0F));
  this.goalSelector.addGoal(8, new LookRandomlyGoal(this));

  this.goalSelector.addGoal(1, new MeleeAttackGoal(this, 1.0D, true));
  this.goalSelector.addGoal(7, new WaterAvoidingRandomWalkingGoal(this, 1.0D));
  this.targetSelector.addGoal(2, new NearestAttackableTargetGoal<>(this, PlayerEntity.class, true));
}

 

[Silverminer]

I've search a bit around and found this: https://gitlab.com/modding-legacy/lava-monster/-/blob/1.16.x/src/main/java/com/legacy/lava_monster/entity/LavaMonsterEntity.java

It looks like they do what you want to do. Hope this helps. Do you have an implementation of #aiStep? Check if you call the super method. May i can help more when i see more code

[Luis_ST]

16 hours ago, Kiryu144 said:

Thank you, now with those changes added, my entity now follows the player, like it tries to attack, but doesn't actually attack.

24 minutes ago, Silverminer said:

I've search a bit around and found this: https://gitlab.com/modding-legacy/lava-monster/-/blob/1.16.x/src/main/java/com/legacy/lava_monster/entity/LavaMonsterEntity.java

There are also a lot of vanilla examples that you could look at, e.g. ZombieEntity