Good morning Forum

 

Using the latest (8.0.12.1255 as of writing this) Forge for 1.8 i try to use LivingSpawnEvent.SpecialSpawn and its parent LivingSpawnEvent.

The parent gets called perfectly, but i expected the child to fire first, which it doesn't. In fact it isn't fired at all.

The test setup is that LivingSpawnEvent prevents all mob spawning in an area around spawn, which works for natural spawning.

The problems:

- Eggs spawn mobs, which interestingly is not registered by LivingSpawnEvent or PlayerUseItemEvent.Start.

- Mob spawners spawn their mobs, which should have been caught by LivingSpawnEvent.SpecialSpawn according to the documentation.

 

(shortend) Code example of what i am doing here:

public class onMobSpawn {

@SubscribeEvent(priority=EventPriority.HIGH)
@SideOnly(Side.SERVER)
public void spawnEvent(LivingSpawnEvent event)
{
	Entity mob = event.entity;
	if(mob instanceof EntityAmbientCreature)
	{
		if(mob instanceof EntityBat)
		{
			if(laCheck.noBatsFlag(mob.posX, mob.posY, mob.posZ,helper.getFullWorldName(mob.getEntityWorld())))
			{
				event.isCanceled();
				return;
			}				
		}
	}
	if(mob instanceof EntityMob)
	{
		if(laCheck.monsterFlag(mob.posX, mob.posY, mob.posZ, helper.getFullWorldName(mob.getEntityWorld())))
		{
			event.isCanceled();
			return;
		}
	}		
}
}

public class onMobSpawnSpecial {
@SubscribeEvent(priority=EventPriority.HIGHEST)
@SideOnly(Side.SERVER)
public void spawnEventSpecial(LivingSpawnEvent.SpecialSpawn event)
{
	Entity mob = event.entity;
	Logger log = FMLLog.getLogger();
	log.info("DEBUG: mob.getName() == '" + mob.getName() + "'");	
}	
}

//In my init class
    @EventHandler
    public void init(FMLInitializationEvent event)
    {
        MinecraftForge.EVENT_BUS.register(new onMobSpawn());
        MinecraftForge.EVENT_BUS.register(new onMobSpawnSpecial());
    }

 

So what could be my mistake here. Maybe i am misinterpreting the documentation somewhere and a nudge in the right direction would be helpful.

My Minecraft coding background is hMod/Canary Classic, if that helps.

Yup, that helped, thanks.

 

Anything else that could pose a trap when coming from other Minecraft modding APIs?