I've been working on a mod that makes all mobs during sunlight. Problem is that the witches heal, and then the mobs drop a ton of crap. I wanted to set it that after the mob burns for 8 seconds it will kill them. I messed around with _{WorldTickEvent} and make some kind of a timer, but the problem was I couldn't get any information from the LivingUpdate method holding all the entity information. I then tried just having them start to burn, then kill them off immediately, but it looked very unnatural. Then I tried what I'm posting below...

 

 

@SubscribeEvent(priority = EventPriority.HIGHEST)
    public void BurnMobs(LivingEvent.LivingUpdateEvent e)
    {
        EntityLivingBase entity = e.getEntityLiving();
        World world = e.getEntity().getEntityWorld();

        BurningMobs(world, entity);

        while(entity.isBurning())
        {
            if(entity instanceof EntityWitch)
            {
                if(entity.isBurning() && ((EntityWitch) entity).isDrinkingPotion())
                {
                    killStingyMob(entity);
                }
            }

            if(entity.isBurning() && isBrightEnoughToBurn(world, entity))
            {
                killStingyMob(entity);
            }
        }
    }

    public void BurningMobs(World world, EntityLivingBase entity)
    {
        if (isBrightEnoughToBurn(world, entity))
        {
            entity.setFire(30);
        }
    }

public void killStingyMob(EntityLivingBase e)
    {
        e.setDead();
        e.setDropItemsWhenDead(false);
    }

 

 

That locks my code up also the StingyMobs method when used they'll still drop items. So I've been at a lost on what to do and really could use some direction, thank you.

You should be able to use

LivingDropsEvent

which is fired when an entity dies and before it drops its loot. Then you can check for the type of entity and the damage source and clear the entity's drops if it fits your criteria.

So you want a timer per entity? Look at Capabilities, they allow you to attach data to any entity.

 

Am I able to use the WorldTickEvent event with this? Or would I have to use a timer I wrote myself...which I deleted lol.

Not sure how you mean that question. You shouldn't use

WorldTickEvent

, use

LivingUpdateEvent

like you are now.

 

I probably worded it poorly. I was asking if should use a timer class I wrote myself then attach it using capabilities or use the built in tick events, sorry.

Well I looked at capabilities, whew, kind of a brain scratcher.

 

The docs don't tell me much, the few tutorials left a lot of questions too. Is there a good resource I can look at for help?

 

Depends on your use case. If you need to do something every tick for (almost) every entity, use LivingUpdateEvent. If you need to do something every once in a while for some entities based on a certain event (which you can detect outside of just ticking) then use WorldTickEvent with a list of tasks to do.

 

I was always wondering if the was possible in my main block of code with all the entity data if I could call WorldTickEvent, instead of subscribing to it?

I was always wondering if the was possible in my main block of code with all the entity data if I could call WorldTickEvent, instead of subscribing to it?

Uhm... what? I have no idea what you are talking about.

Probably worded it poorly again. I was asking if I had to subcribe to an event to fire it, or if I can just call it in another block of code. Say like once the enemy was set on fire it would start the tick event to count 8 seconds and execute code I wrote instead of having it listen for ticks the whole time, hopefully it's worded better.

 

http://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/forge-tutorial-capability-system/

 

I followed this guide. I know about interfaces, but I was wondering how I could get entity data from it, this guy uses his implementation to get a mana value he sets. Then the whole NBT thing was a headscratcher too. Thanks for the help.