[SPIGOT-2465] EntityDamageEvent not executing for anything other than players? Created: 28/Jun/16  Updated: 29/Jul/16  Resolved: 28/Jun/16

Status: Resolved
Project: Spigot
Component/s: None
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: None

Type: Bug Priority: Major
Reporter: Tom Hoogstra Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Cannot Reproduce Votes: 0
Labels: 1.10.2

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 Description   

Either my shit is completely toasted, or something has went wrong with recent versions.

My event is properly registered, other events in the same class execute fine, but if I use the following code

@EventHandler
public void onDeath(EntityDeathEvent e){
   Bukkit.broadcastMessage("test");
}

"test" will only be broadcasted when a player dies. I have killed countless sheep, switched classes that the listener is in, everything.

 Comments   
Comment by Tom Hoogstra [ 29/Jun/16 ]

I think I found something that might be causing my problem.
Apparently, when using setHealth(0) on an entity, it will only call the PlayerDeathEvent, however if the entity isnt a player, it won't call anything at all.
I use my own way for handling damage, and I have for a while but I didn't notice this until now. I went and called a EntityDeathEvent after I set the entities health to 0, and it fixed my problem.

Comment by Tom Hoogstra [ 29/Jun/16 ]

Are there any possible settings that could be causing this to happen?

I made a class from scratch which still provides 0 output

public class Test extends JavaPlugin implements Listener{

	 @EventHandler
	    public void death(EntityDeathEvent event)
	    {
	        getServer().broadcastMessage( ReflectionToStringBuilder.toString( event ) );
	    }


	@Override
	public void onEnable() {
		Bukkit.getPluginManager().registerEvents(this, this);
        }
Comment by md_5 [ 28/Jun/16 ]

[09:32:42 INFO]: org.bukkit.event.entity.EntityDeathEvent@51ad3bf5[drops=[ItemStack

{RAW_BEEF x 1}

],dropExp=3,entity=CraftCow,name=<null>,async=false]

    @EventHandler
    public void death(EntityDeathEvent event)
    {
        getServer().broadcastMessage( ReflectionToStringBuilder.toString( event ) );
    }
Comment by Tom Hoogstra [ 28/Jun/16 ]

Sorry, I meant EntityDeathEvent, not EntityDamageEvent.

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