I found 2 ways of doing this but they both seem the wrong way. I made my own stat system with nbt on items and if player has a total of say 50 dmg, i want the weapon to do 50 dmg. Here are the 2 ways i did this that i think are wrong

 

firstly i tried just setting mob health but that has issues, the mobs don't drop any items then. 

 

secondly, i tried using the attackentityfrom method and making it unique so i can identify it and not make an infinite loop, but this looks like a disaster in the making

 

		if (event.getSource().isDamageAbsolute())return;		

		event.getEntityLiving().attackEntityFrom(event.getSource().setDamageIsAbsolute(), combinedDMG);
		
		event.setCanceled(true);

 

Am i missing the true way of doing this? And no i can't just change the dmg of items, there is crit chance, lifesteal etc to calculate too. 

 

EDIT I THINK I FIGURED IT OUT, sec

Edited December 5, 20177 yr by robertx555

Can close the thread, i read some other thread here 

 

the suggestion to  open type hierarchy made me realize LivingDamageEvent event exists and that i can change the amount there with setamount!

 

There is a class called ForgeHooks that contains all the events 

Edited December 5, 20177 yr by robertx555