[Resolved] Event Not Canceling

[TheElementGuy]

I have an AttackEntityEvent and I can't get it to cancel.

public class ModEvents {
    @Mod.EventBusSubscriber(modid = GreekMythsMod.MOD_ID)
    public class ForgeEvents {
        @SubscribeEvent
        public static void onPlayerAttackEntity(AttackEntityEvent event) {
            ItemStack item = event.getEntity().getItemInHand(InteractionHand.MAIN_HAND);
            if (item == new ItemStack(ModItems.CELESTIAL_BRONZE_SWORD.get(), 1) && !(event.getTarget() instanceof Enemy)) {
                event.setCancelled(true);
            }
            
        }
    }
}

It is supposed to check if you are holding a celestial bronze sword and you are not hitting an enemy. It says that AttackEntityEvent is not cancelable.

[Hipposgrumm]

A workaround I would do for this is to just make the attack do 0 damage.

[TheElementGuy]

I don't want to do that because then it would still show an animation.

[TheElementGuy]

Also, the only one that sets damage (LivingHurtEvent) doesn't let me get the target.

[warjort]

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It says that AttackEntityEvent is not cancelable

Not true.

https://github.com/MinecraftForge/MinecraftForge/blob/b398f52a7f9885b2a181092d04af9679d4fb3e6b/src/main/java/net/minecraftforge/event/entity/player/AttackEntityEvent.java#L21

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if (item == new ItemStack(ModItems.CELESTIAL_BRONZE_SWORD.get(), 1) && !(event.getTarget() instanceof Enemy)) {

There is zero possiblity the ItemStack in the player's inventory will be referentially equal to a new instance of an ItemStack.

Perhaps you meant?

            if (item.is(ModItems.CELESTIAL_BRONZE_SWORD.get()) && !(event.getTarget() instanceof Enemy)) {

[TheElementGuy]

So Gradle stopped throwing errors, maybe I had a typo? Thank you for your help.