Custom humanoid mob wont spawn with armor or weapon(SOLVED)

[coldthunder4]

My custom mob wont spawn with it's items. Not sure why. I have the itemstack within it's entity code, i'm not sure why it's not giving the entity it's items upon spawn. 

info that should be useful: I essentially copied some stuff from MCreator to get the basics in, maybe there is some incompatibility for my mod version (mc 1.19) and the mcreator version (mc 1.19.2)?

github repository: https://github.com/Coldthunder4/AGuardMod

specific file: https://github.com/Coldthunder4/AGuardMod/blob/master/src/main/java/net/coldthunder4/cellguard/entity/custom/GuardEntity.java

Lines 60-64 are the set item in equipment slots. 

Side question, how do I make it so my mob will do an arm swing animation upon hitting it's target?

Thanks in advance.

Edited January 9, 2023 by coldthunder4
solved the problem