[unsolved] Can't hit player from entity AI w/ attackEntityFrom

[Turtledove]

I have a very basic AI class where if the player gets within a certain area of the entity, then the player takes damage.

 

So I did the usual; get the bounding box, scale it, offset it, and iterate the list for valid entities. The thing is, it works, other mobs take damage without any issue. However, I can't seem to get hit. It's in the AI class so it's not a server-client issue, plus when I print the list of entities in the AABB it does detect the server's player class. What am I missing here? This is all there is in my update method:

 

            List<LivingEntity> swipeEnemies = this.entity.world.getEntitiesWithinAABBExcludingEntity(entity,  entity.getEntityBoundingBox().expand(5.0,1.0,5.0).offset(-2.5D,0D,-2.5D));
            if (!swipeEnemies.isEmpty())
            {
                for (LivingEntity targ : swipeEnemies)
                {
                    targ.attackEntityFrom(DamageSource.causeMobDamage(entity),12.0F);
                }

 

Edited May 18, 2020 by Turtledove

[Turtledove]

...huh, rebuilding the project got it to work. The heck?

[Ugdhar]

2 hours ago, Turtledove said:

...huh, rebuilding the project got it to work. The heck?

Were you in creative mode when you were trying it? Just curious, since I would imagine you wouldn't take damage in creative.

[Turtledove]

10 hours ago, Ugdhar said:

Were you in creative mode when you were trying it? Just curious, since I would imagine you wouldn't take damage in creative.

Haha nah I was in survival. Just one of those times where you can't figure out why something finally works, so you just accept it and move on lol.

[Turtledove]

Never mind, it's not working again. Why on earth is this happening?

[Turtledove]

attackEntityFrom keeps returning false. When I reload the world it sometimes works, but most times it doesn't. 

[Turtledove]

It appears that the damage source is the issue, when I set my custom entity as the damage source it causes attackEntityFrom to return false most of the time. But when I instead set the source as a generic type, it works 100%. Strange. Looking through the multiplayer class's attackEntityFrom (or its parent class) there's nothing there to indicate there'd be a problem.