Trying to create a bow to shoot two arrows

[brettski111]

We would like a custom bow we created to shoot two arrows.  I have it working kind of and am looking for some assistance. 

 

To create the custom bow, I used the vanilla code as a template.  With a single arrow the bow appears to work just fine.  To shoot a second arrow, I added a second entity arrow throughout the bow code and spawn it in the the if (!par2World.isRemote) section. 

 

When I shoot the bow at a tree, both arrow shoot from the bow and two arrows stick into the tree.

 

When I shoot the bow at a cow, one arrow hits the cow and the other bounces off and sticks into the ground facing me. 

 

I am able to pick up both arrows, though I just noticed only one arrow is decremented from my inventory.  It does appear that both arrows are doing damage. 

 

At this point I assume I have gone about this the wrong way.  I appreciate any suggestion to improve this mod.

 

Kind regards,

 

brettski111

[Draco18s]

The second one bounces off because there's a hurt delay on all mobs: when they take damage they become invulnerable for about a second.  During this time other attacks will do no damage (and arrows will bounce off).

[general3214]

Try using

LivingHurtEvent

or

LivingAttackEvent

.

[Draco18s]

Messing around with Utility Mobs for my own purposes, I mucked about with Toast's custom arrow class to allow multiple arrows to hit a single target.

 

That would also work.

 

Duplicate the arrow, then when it deals damage just set the entity's hurtTime (hurtResistanceTime?) to 0.

[ninjapancakes87]

I made a vanilla-templated bow as well, and one way to use up both arrows is to call

par3EntityPlayer.inventory.consumeInventoryItem(Item.itemID);

twice.  While ineffecient, you can't call decrStackSize because I don't believe it gives you which slot your arrows are in.