Hello,
I was reading through the API documentation and am loving the design decisions thus far.
I just read about spawning entities and how to modify an entities data.
Will it be possible to modify an entities behavior? Such as altering the attack types. My use case is a custom mob plugin I am working on that will add two attack types and additional modifiers to entities/monsters.
An attack type could be just the default behavior or with a % chance shooting a fireball or something unique. It would be really nice to be able to hook into the entity behavior and alter it at entity creation. That way I could override the behavior to customize it … some of the time.
The current way I do this in bukkit is through events. This works fine, but it would be a much cleaner implementation to have all the different behaviors defined and then tweak them based on the custom behaviors I want to support.
I think if we have hooks into the behavior/AI of an entity would pave the way for more advanced customization such as altering the AI of a pig to make it a death pig… for example.
Anyways, was curious if this was planned or if this already exists in the API already!
Edit:
Also, here is the entity spawning documentation I was referring to: https://docs.spongepowered.org/en/plugin/basics/entities/spawning.html