I am trying to make an event that will spawn armor stands with arms whenever an armor stand is spawned but I cannot get it to work.

I included a logger to see if it gets past the if statement that checks if the entity spawned was an armor stand and it does not log anything so I am assuming that is the problem(I put one outside of the if statement and it does log when things spawn).

Any ideas?

 

package com.chaoticsoul.evolate.events;
import com.chaoticsoul.evolate.Evolate;

import net.minecraft.entity.item.ArmorStandEntity;
import net.minecraft.nbt.CompoundNBT;
import net.minecraftforge.event.entity.living.LivingSpawnEvent;
import net.minecraftforge.eventbus.api.SubscribeEvent;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.Mod;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.Mod.EventBusSubscriber.Bus;

@Mod.EventBusSubscriber(modid = Evolate.MOD_ID, bus = Bus.FORGE)
public class SpawnArmorStandEvent {

	@SubscribeEvent
	public static void spawnArmorStandEvent(LivingSpawnEvent event)
	{
		if (event.getEntityLiving() instanceof ArmorStandEntity)
		{
			Evolate.LOGGER.info("test");
			ArmorStandEntity stand = (ArmorStandEntity) event.getEntityLiving();
			CompoundNBT compound = new CompoundNBT();
			compound.putBoolean("ShowArms", true);
			stand.writeAdditional(compound);
		}
	}
	

}

Also, I am new to nbt data so that part may be wrong as well.

Thanks, it now works

For anyone else trying to do this, the final code is:

package com.chaoticsoul.evolate.events;
import com.chaoticsoul.evolate.Evolate;

import net.minecraft.entity.item.ArmorStandEntity;
import net.minecraft.nbt.CompoundNBT;
import net.minecraft.network.datasync.DataParameter;
import net.minecraft.network.datasync.DataSerializers;
import net.minecraft.network.datasync.EntityDataManager;
import net.minecraftforge.event.entity.EntityJoinWorldEvent;
import net.minecraftforge.eventbus.api.SubscribeEvent;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.Mod;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.Mod.EventBusSubscriber.Bus;

@Mod.EventBusSubscriber(modid = Evolate.MOD_ID, bus = Bus.FORGE)
public class SpawnArmorStandEvent {
	@SubscribeEvent
	public static void spawnArmorStandEvent(EntityJoinWorldEvent event)
	{
		if (event.getEntity() instanceof ArmorStandEntity)
		{
			ArmorStandEntity stand = (ArmorStandEntity) event.getEntity();
			CompoundNBT compound = new CompoundNBT();
			compound.putBoolean("ShowArms", true);
			stand.readAdditional(compound);
		}
	}
	

}

 

Edited July 10, 20205 yr by clearcut
mistake in code

Ah, I didn't know about the overwriting.

			stand.writeAdditional(compound);
			compound.putBoolean("ShowArms", true);

Adding the lines above before the readAdditional method seems to work but does it fix the overwriting issue?

I wanted to find a work around using setShowArms since I did not know how to use it.