[1.15.2] How do I extend the attack reach of a player?

[Nozzomi]

I've asked around a bunch on the discords and have gotten a lot of mixed answers. So, I'm wondering what would be the best way to extend the attack reach of a player? I've tried extending the reach attribute, but it seems to only affect blocks.

Edited March 19, 2020 by Nozzomi

[Nozzomi]

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[DavidM]

AFAIK there is no default way to increase the reach range for entity.

You will have to do your own recasting on the client side (basically simulate what vanilla Minecraft does).

[Nozzomi]

8 minutes ago, DavidM said:

AFAIK there is no default way to increase the reach range for entity.

You will have to do your own recasting on the client side (basically simulate what vanilla Minecraft does).

Ah, that's unfortunate. How would I go about doing that (honestly, ray casting in general)? When I'm looking at the vanilla code, a method that I'm finding for that gets its information from the CUseEntityPacket parameter.

[DragonITA]

Hope it help: You can use world.isRemote or @EventBusSubscriber(MODID, bus = EventBusSubscriber.Bus.MOD, value = Dist.CLIENT) or @Side(Dist.CLIENT). Hope it will help you. 

[PROhitman]

On 3/21/2020 at 7:09 AM, Nozzomi said:

Ah, that's unfortunate. How would I go about doing that (honestly, ray casting in general)? When I'm looking at the vanilla code, a method that I'm finding for that gets its information from the CUseEntityPacket parameter.

Can you give us some of the answers uve got from the discord servers, I'm still trying to do that but without success.

[DragonITA]

Why not use coremods?

[DavidM]

41 minutes ago, DragonITA said:

Why not use coremods?

Because it is not necessary in this case.

[transfarmer]

You can make an invisible entity that deals damage if it hits an enemy within a certain range.

[DragonITA]

I think i have a better idea now: @Nozzomi, idk and not seed the vanilla method, but you can try to use a event (if the player for example use its hand) and if the RayTracing uses vectors, then add a scalar to this vector. If you dk what vectors are (and if the VanillaRaytracing uses and/or return a vector) then here is a page: https://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/vectors-dot-product.html