I need help, I need to know how to make a mob attack with lightning. (Sorry if there is already a thread for this I searched and didn't see one)

You mean strike lightnings around it? There must be a method to do that. If you mean like Thaumcraft shock wand focus then it's a problem...

Yeah I mean like shoot a lightning bolt down at the player / whatever it is fighting

I believe one of the modifiers in the Infernal Mobs mod makes the mob strike you with lightning so there must be a way

Hi

 

It should be relatively straightforward; I imagine your attack code just needs to spawn an EntityLightningBolt at the right location (of the enemy) - on the server side only

 

From WorldServer:

 

            this.theProfiler.endStartSection("thunder");
            int i1;
            int j1;
            int k1;
            int l1;

            if (provider.canDoLightning(chunk) && this.rand.nextInt(100000) == 0 && this.isRaining() && this.isThundering())
            {
                this.updateLCG = this.updateLCG * 3 + 1013904223;
                i1 = this.updateLCG >> 2;
                j1 = k + (i1 & 15);
                k1 = l + (i1 >> 8 & 15);
                l1 = this.getPrecipitationHeight(j1, k1);

                if (this.canLightningStrikeAt(j1, l1, k1))
                {
                    this.addWeatherEffect(new EntityLightningBolt(this, (double)j1, (double)l1, (double)k1));
                }
            }

            this.theProfiler.endStartSection("iceandsnow");

 

-TGG

Still having trouble, I'm not exactly sure how to use that code in the method for attacking with a ranged attack (although I may just be stupid and am missing something obvious)

I believe summoning lightning at a player is easier.

 

int px = worldObj.getClosestPlayerToEntity(this, 64).posX;

 

That gives you the x position of the player.

Do the same with the other positions of the player (posY and posZ);

 

worldObj.addWeatherEffect(new EntityLightningBolt(worldObj, px, py, pz));

 

you could use that in your onUpdate() method.

Thanks, that worked great