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, 20205 yr by VirtCraft
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Hi

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

PlayerEntity::attackTargetEntityWithCurrentItem()

 

-TGG

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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