A basic question: Since entities do not have fixed positions, is there a way to get all entities, ex. ahead of the player 10 blocks, and then deal damage/apply effects to each one?

Edited July 25, 20223 yr by Gepardius

Works like a charm thank you! I ended up using the method getEntities(Entity, AABB): 

AABB minMax = new AABB(x, y, z, xMax, y+nOfBlocksUp, zMax);
List<Entity> ent = level.getEntities(player, minMax);
for (Entity entko : ent) {
  entko.hurt(DamageSource.IN_WALL, entityDamage/2);
}

 

I am having issues with setting effects to the entities, am I doing something wrong? I am trying to freeze the movement of the given entity.

 

List<Entity> ent = level.getEntities(player, minMax);
for (Entity entko : ent) {
  entko.setTicksFrozen(100);
  entko.hurt(DamageSource.IN_WALL, entityDamage/2);
}

.setTicksFrozen(int) should freeze the entity right?

.hurt works as it should, therefore why wouldn't other methods work on the same entity?