Does anyone know of a relatively easy way to significantly increase custom mobs' movement/flying speed?

 

I've been able to set the base movement speed of attributes, add modifiers, etc., but it seems like there's an underlying movement speed cap on mobs (it's not very fast, at all, you can still outrun them going backwards).

 

Is this the case? Am I doing something wrong? 

 

Some examples of what I'm trying to do now...

 

this.getEntityAttribute(SharedMonsterAttributes.MOVEMENT_SPEED).setBaseValue(10f);
this.getEntityAttribute(SharedMonsterAttributes.FLYING_SPEED).setBaseValue(10f);
		

 

 

and in the custom AI class...

 

ghost.moveHelper.setMoveTo(ghost.getAttackTarget().posX, ghost.getAttackTarget().posY, ghost.getAttackTarget().posZ, 15);
				
ghost.getEntityAttribute(SharedMonsterAttributes.MOVEMENT_SPEED).applyModifier(new AttributeModifier("dive_speed", 10, 0));
ghost.getEntityAttribute(SharedMonsterAttributes.FLYING_SPEED).applyModifier(new AttributeModifier("dive_speed", 10, 0));

 

 

 

But still no fast ghost

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Figured it out! For anyone who wants to know this in the future, I could NOT for the life of me find ANY way to reasonably do this with the native Minecraft path finders or move helpers.

 

What I did is in my custom entity AI's UpdateTask method, directly calculate the proper movement vector for the ghost and directly set the entity's movementX, movementY, movementZ, etc.

 

example: 

	Vec3d moveVec = ghost.getAttackTarget().getPositionVector().subtract(ghost.getPositionVector())
	moveVec = moveVec.normalize();
				
	moveVec = moveVec.scale(.5);
				
	double dx = ghost.posX - ghost.getAttackTarget().posX;
	double dz = ghost.posZ - ghost.getAttackTarget().posZ;
							
	float angle = (float)(MathHelper.atan2(dz, dx) * (180D / Math.PI)) + 90.0F;
	
	//this limitAngle method is copied from the vanilla EntityMovementHelper
	ghost.rotationYaw = this.limitAngle(ghost.rotationYaw, angle, 90.0F);
				
	ghost.motionX = moveVec.x;
	ghost.motionY = moveVec.y;
	ghost.motionZ = moveVec.z;

 

 

It's fairly simple for my purposes, since I just wanted to make a ghost fly up into the air and then quickly dive down at its target.

 

 

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