Determining the distance to the nearest town

[Luminaire]

When spawning a mob, I'd like to determine the distance to the nearest town.  Any idea how that can be accomplished?

 

Thanks

[Danebi]

I'm not sure but try to check ServerWorld#findNearestStructure.

[Beethoven92]

4 hours ago, Luminaire said:

When spawning a mob, I'd like to determine the distance to the nearest town.  Any idea how that can be accomplished?

 

Thanks

You could do the same thing that the /locate command does for you ingame. I took a look at the command implementation and i see that it calls the function ServerWorld#func_241117_a_, which is what actually returns a BlockPos representing the position of the nearest structure of the specified type. I believe this function is gonna be remapped to getStructureLocation..i don't know your mappings version but you can try both and see which one you have. After you get the position of the structure, finding how far is from the mob you spawned is trivial

[Luminaire]

Thanks, that makes things clear.