Making mobs move toward their block mob spawner

[juanitodelavega]

I have a custom creature spawner who can spawn any entityliving (mobs and creatures ) from vanilla and other mods .

I want those creatures to move to the spawner they just have been spawned from .

 

Right after spawning them to the world with :

this.getSpawnerWorld().spawnEntityInWorld(par1Entity);

 

I tried to set their path to the spawner:

entityliving.getNavigator().tryMoveToXYZ(this.getSpawnerX(), this.getSpawnerY(), this.getSpawnerZ(), 1.0D);

 

I tried to tell them where to move :

entityliving.getMoveHelper().setMoveTo(this.getSpawnerX(), this.getSpawnerY(), this.getSpawnerZ(), 1.0D);

 

I tried to add a custom AI task which set their path to the spawner:

entityliving.tasks.addTask(0, new EntityAIMoveToBlock(entityliving,this.getSpawnerX(),this.getSpawnerY(),this.getSpawnerZ()))

But it looks like the task is ignored by the creature.

 

None of those methods works i dont know if there is another way to tell any kind of creature to move to a said location; or if there is a way to add AI task after a creature has been created ?

[Draco18s]

You need to understand how AI Task priority, Mutexbits, and CanBeInterrupted work together.

 

Suffice to say, I need more code, like the whole tasks.addTask() list

[juanitodelavega]

Here is where i update my spawner and where i try to add Ai task or try to set the entity spawned path when it spawn an entity

 

public void updateSpawner() {
	if (isActivated()) {
		double d2;
		if (this.getSpawnerWorld().isRemote) {
			//particles
		} else {				
			if (this.spawnDelay == -1) {
				this.resetTimer();
			}

			if(this.spawnDelay==0){
				if(!spawnConditions()){
					this.resetTimer();
					return;
				}
			}

			if (this.spawnDelay > 0) {
				--this.spawnDelay;
				return;
			}
                boolean flag = false;

                for (int i = 0; i < this.spawnCount; ++i)
                {
                    Entity entity = EntityList.createEntityByName(this.getEntityNameToSpawn(), this.getSpawnerWorld());
                    
                    if (entity == null)
                    {
                        return;
                    }
                    entity.getEntityData().setIntArray(SpawnerBlock.KEY_SPAWN, new int[]{this.getSpawnerX(),this.getSpawnerY(),this.getSpawnerZ()});
        			
                    int j = this.getSpawnerWorld().getEntitiesWithinAABB(entity.getClass(), AxisAlignedBB.getBoundingBox((double)this.getSpawnerX(), (double)this.getSpawnerY(), (double)this.getSpawnerZ(), (double)(this.getSpawnerX() + 1), (double)(this.getSpawnerY() + 1), (double)(this.getSpawnerZ() + 1)).expand((double)(this.spawnRange * 2), 4.0D, (double)(this.spawnRange * 2))).size();

                    if (j >= this.maxNearbyEntities)
                    {
                        this.resetTimer();
                        return;
                    }

                    d2 = (double)this.getSpawnerX() + (this.getSpawnerWorld().rand.nextDouble() - this.getSpawnerWorld().rand.nextDouble()) * (double)this.spawnRange;
                    double d3 = (double)(this.getSpawnerY() + this.getSpawnerWorld().rand.nextInt(3) - 1);
                    double d4 = (double)this.getSpawnerZ() + (this.getSpawnerWorld().rand.nextDouble() - this.getSpawnerWorld().rand.nextDouble()) * (double)this.spawnRange;
                    EntityLiving entityliving = entity instanceof EntityLiving ? (EntityLiving)entity : null;
                    entity.setLocationAndAngles(d2, d3, d4, this.getSpawnerWorld().rand.nextFloat() * 360.0F, 0.0F);
                    if (( entityliving == null || (entityliving.getCanSpawnHere() || !followVanillaSpawnRules) ) && getSpawnerWorld().getBlock((int)d2, (int)d3, (int)d4) == Blocks.air )
                    {
                        //entityliving.getNavigator().tryMoveToXYZ(this.getSpawnerX(), this.getSpawnerY(), this.getSpawnerZ(), 1.0D);
    		//entityliving.getMoveHelper().setMoveTo(this.getSpawnerX(), this.getSpawnerY(), this.getSpawnerZ(), 1.0D);
                        //entityliving.tasks.addTask(0, new EntityAIMoveToBlock(entityliving,this.getSpawnerX(),this.getSpawnerY(),this.getSpawnerZ()));
                        this.spawnEntity(entity);
                        this.getSpawnerWorld().playAuxSFX(2004, this.getSpawnerX(), this.getSpawnerY(), this.getSpawnerZ(), 0);

                        if (entityliving != null)
                        {
                            entityliving.spawnExplosionParticle();
                        }

                        flag = true;
                    }
                }

                if (flag)
                {
                    this.resetTimer();
                }
                

        		/*for(EntityLiving ecr :this.listEToRemove){
        			
        			this.listE.remove(ecr);
        		}
        		this.listEToRemove.clear();*/
		}


	}

public Entity spawnEntity(Entity par1Entity) {
	if (par1Entity instanceof EntityLivingBase && par1Entity.worldObj != null) {
		((EntityLiving)par1Entity).func_110163_bv();
		this.getSpawnerWorld().spawnEntityInWorld(par1Entity);
	}
	return par1Entity;
}

 

 

Here my AI task

public class EntityAIMoveToBlock  extends EntityAIBase{

EntityLiving entitySpawn;
    int xBlock;
    int yBlock;
    int zBlock;

public EntityAIMoveToBlock(EntityLiving entity, int x, int y, int z){
	this.entitySpawn = entity;
	this.xBlock = x;
	this.yBlock = y;
	this.zBlock = z;
	setMutexBits(7);
}

@Override
public boolean shouldExecute() {
	if (entitySpawn == null){
		return false;
	}
	else if (!entitySpawn.isEntityAlive()){
		return false;
	}
	else{
		return true;
        }
}

public boolean continueExecuting(){
        return entitySpawn.isEntityAlive() && !entitySpawn.getNavigator().noPath() && entitySpawn.getDistanceSq(xBlock, yBlock, zBlock)>2.0*2.0;
    }

    public void startExecuting(){
    	entitySpawn.getNavigator().tryMoveToXYZ(this.xBlock, this.yBlock, this.zBlock, 2.0);
    }
    
    public void resetTask(){
    	entitySpawn = null;
    }
}

 

Im applying that task to any entity spawned by the spawner even vanilla ones not only my custom ones so there is no list of tasks.addTask()

, i know about Mutexbits but what is CanBeInterrupted ?