Making A Multi Mob Mob

Started by ZRandomness on Fri, 12/08/2023 - 22:55

Topic category: Troubleshooting, bugs, and solutions

Currently I'm trying to code a centipede mob and I'm trying to make it act like the Naga(Twilight Forest) or Snake(The Game) where each segment of the body follows behind the first one. The problem is I can only get it to teleport on its parent. I'm using a plugin called Additions (Link: Mod), This allows me to get and set the parent entity. I mainly just need a way to figure out if the parent entity moves then it should move to its past position. I have been working on this for a little while. I just want to know if anybody could help me.

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Only way to properly do something like this is to custom code it yourself. Plugins wont get you far enough to make a chain entity

What you CAN try is:

Make sure your body entities follow the parent and make sure that is the ONLY AI task
Create a global chain variable that counts down each entity/body segment that spawned
When the head spawns, it sets the global chain variable to however long you want your entity to be -1
- If you want your entity to be 5 segments long, set it to 4 to account for the head
When the head spawns, you need the following
- If global chain variable is > 0 spawn another body segment with the parent set to the current segment then set the global variable to current variable - 1
- Ensure your body segments ONLY use the Follow Parent AI Task and make sure it's speed is equal to the head's speed for the body segment entities
If you have a tail segment, set that to spawn at 1 and add no additional spawning features for the tail.
Potential issues
- Due to making this with procedures, you will have numerous issued
- Health Issue
  - If you wish for your entity to share it's health across all child/parent entities to have the same health, you will need to code this in
  - All segment entities health will be individual unless you find a way with procedures to set the health for all entities
    - Find a way to set all entities parents to the Head segment and direct all damage to the head then set the health of all segments to it's parents health
- Segment Separation
  - Use Owner instead of Parent for following to better define how close the entity needs to follow its owner
  - If this doesn't work, or if that is not possible with the plugins you use, then you will have no choice but to code all of this yourself.

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