[1.15.2 | SOLVED] Get ItemStack attack damage

[VirtCraft]

My question is simple:

Is there a way to get the attack damage, when an item is used to attack a certain entity?

Edited March 18, 2020 by VirtCraft
Thread solved!

[TheGreyGhost]

Hi

I'm not exactly sure what your question is, but I'm pretty sure you'll find the answer in

PlayerEntity::attackTargetEntityWithCurrentItem()

 

-TGG

[VirtCraft]

That solution comes pretty near to what I am looking for.

The problem is though, that I want the player to attack an entity with a specific item, not necessarily the current held one.

Is there an other similar method to do that?

[Ugdhar]

Please be more specific about what you are trying to achieve, details from the players point of view would help

[VirtCraft]

I am trying to make a throwable weapon like a dagger or so.
The entity spawning and rendering works, but when the weapon collides with an entity it should deal as much damage as a melee attack would have dealt.
This should consider all enchantments applied to the itemstack and all potioneffects of the player.

[Draco18s]

Well, if you look at the arrow entity, you'll see that it maintains a reference to the player that fired it.

[VirtCraft]

Yeah, but the problem is that I want a clean way to get the attackdamage a player would deal, without having to mess with enchantmentmodifiers and so on.

[TheGreyGhost]

Hi

 

In that case I think the easier way will probably be to recreate the functionality in PlayerEntity::attackTargetEntityWithCurrentItem()

i.e. copy and paste and remove the bits that aren't relevant or that actually do the damage

 

Not ideal because you will need to update it every time Minecraft updates a version, but you'll be doing that for half your code base anyway.

 

-TGG