Alright, so I have added Global Loot to all existing living vanilla entities and any other new entities that might be subsequently added to the game. The item is meant to be incredibly rare, which it currently is, however it can drop off of anything.

 

Kinda like a Trophy from openBlocks. Here is my inquiry. I want to make it so that players cannot set up a mob-grinder, flip a switch and then just play the waiting game. I know I saw a tutorial on how to do this somewhere but I cannot find it again. I input the global loot via the Subscribe Event when loot is created. Basically letting this item be obtained via a mob farm breaks the whole purpose of the mod so I Want to prevent that. And I do know it is possible I just don't know how to do it.

 

My current method is very simple for adding drops. Now I essentials just need to add a mob-farm check to that.

@SubscribeEvent
public void dropSpiritualEssence(LivingDropsEvent event){
	if ( !(event.entity instanceof EntityPlayer) )
	{			
		Random dChance = new Random();
		int rareDrop = dChance.nextInt((100 - 1) + 1) + 1;
		if (rareDrop < celConfiguration.SPIRITESSENCE_DROP_PERCENT)
		{
			Random random = new Random();
			ItemStack itemStackToDrop = new ItemStack(CelestialCraft_items.spiritualEssence, random.nextInt(3));
			event.drops.add(new EntityItem(event.entity.worldObj, event.entity.posX, event.entity.posY, event.entity.posZ, itemStackToDrop));
		}
	}

If I understand correctly - you want your item to drop only if the mob was killed by player?

 

Totally possible - assign IExtendedEntityProperties to every living entity, store boolean defaulted to false. Change boolean to true using LivingDeathEvent if event.source.getEntity() instanceof EntityPlayer. Use IEEP's boolean in LivingDropsEvent to decide if mob was killed by player.

 

Other option would be without IEEP. Simply spawn EntityItem in world using LivingDeathEvent. But that way it goes beyond vanilla drops system.

In your second option without the IEEP. What do you mean it goes beyond the vanilla drops system? As in the item is not really being "dropped" just created? So vanilla isn't actually controlling it?

You don't need IEEP for this. The living drops event should include that damage source.

Oh yeah, it did have it in there. Not sure how I missed it.

 

So this should prevent these specific item drops from grinders correct:

public class CCMobDrops 
{
@SubscribeEvent
public void dropSpiritualEssence(LivingDropsEvent event)
{

	if ( !(event.entity instanceof EntityPlayer))
	{		
		Random dChance = new Random();
		int rareDrop = dChance.nextInt((100 - 1) + 1) + 1;
		if (rareDrop < celConfiguration.SPIRITESSENCE_DROP_PERCENT && event.source.getSourceOfDamage() instanceof EntityPlayer)
		{
			Random random = new Random();
			ItemStack itemStackToDrop = new ItemStack(CelestialCraft_items.spiritualEssence, random.nextInt(3));
			event.drops.add(new EntityItem(event.entity.worldObj, event.entity.posX, event.entity.posY, event.entity.posZ, itemStackToDrop));
		}
	}
}
}

Look at the DamageSource class more closely.

I'm not sure what you mean. I've slightly altered the code:

 

I've gone though the DamageSource class and I do see a variety of different methods like DamageSource causeArrowDamage, DamageSource setExplosion,

public Entity getSourceOfDamage(), public String getDamageType() etc.

 

Is using the above way not correct? Essentially how I am reading it we are retrieving the Source of the damage and if it is an instance of a player we continue.

 

Or perhaps I should just do it right from the start is what you are suggesting?

public class CCMobDrops 
{
@SubscribeEvent
public void dropSpiritualEssence(LivingDropsEvent event, DamageSource damage)
{
	if ( !(event.entity instanceof EntityPlayer) ) && (damage.getSourceOfDamage() instanceof EntityPlayer) ) //check the entity that caused the damage and making sure it is of player.
	{		
		Random dChance = new Random();
		int rareDrop = dChance.nextInt((100 - 1) + 1) + 1;
		if (rareDrop < celConfiguration.SPIRITESSENCE_DROP_PERCENT)
		{
			Random random = new Random();
			ItemStack itemStackToDrop = new ItemStack(CelestialCraft_items.spiritualEssence, random.nextInt(3));
			event.drops.add(new EntityItem(event.entity.worldObj, event.entity.posX, event.entity.posY, event.entity.posZ, itemStackToDrop));
		}
	}
}
}

Sorry, my mistake.  I saw

damage.getSourceOfDamage() instanceof EntityPlayer

and it looked wrong, but I was away from Eclipse and on my tablet.

I'm not sure what you mean. I've slightly altered the code:

 

I've gone though the DamageSource class and I do see a variety of different methods like DamageSource causeArrowDamage, DamageSource setExplosion,

public Entity getSourceOfDamage(), public String getDamageType() etc.

 

Is using the above way not correct? Essentially how I am reading it we are retrieving the Source of the damage and if it is an instance of a player we continue.

 

Or perhaps I should just do it right from the start is what you are suggesting?

public class CCMobDrops 
{
@SubscribeEvent
public void dropSpiritualEssence(LivingDropsEvent event, DamageSource damage)
{
	if ( !(event.entity instanceof EntityPlayer) ) && (damage.getSourceOfDamage() instanceof EntityPlayer) ) //check the entity that caused the damage and making sure it is of player.
	{		
		Random dChance = new Random();
		int rareDrop = dChance.nextInt((100 - 1) + 1) + 1;
		if (rareDrop < celConfiguration.SPIRITESSENCE_DROP_PERCENT)
		{
			Random random = new Random();
			ItemStack itemStackToDrop = new ItemStack(CelestialCraft_items.spiritualEssence, random.nextInt(3));
			event.drops.add(new EntityItem(event.entity.worldObj, event.entity.posX, event.entity.posY, event.entity.posZ, itemStackToDrop));
		}
	}
}
}

 

1st: I totally forgot you have source in Drops event, sry.

 

2nd: Your if statement is pretty much it, BUT - #getSourceOfDamage() is direct source. Meaning that for IndirectDamageSource caused by arrow, shoot by player - it will return arrow. #getEntity() will return the shooter. Use 2nd one.

 

3rd: This is not how you do it. Method should ONLY have Event is its params. Then you pull source from "event.source".

 

4th: General rule is "do not declare new Random()". World class has its own Random alredy prepared. Hell, even entity itself has one, but protected.

Use event.entity.worldObj.rand.

4) You could declare

new Random()

but I would do it at the event handler class level, not inside the function.