Changing the Speed of Monsters

I have been working on a survival server for some time now and I am trying to change the speed of monsters. I read these posts:

http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/cant-change-zombies-speed-damage.84490/
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/best-way-of-changing-mobs-move-speed.65378/#post-1118928

However, I am currently using the Beta build (1.4.6) which according to this post included new safeguards to prevent plugins from accessing craftbukkit and minecraft.server packages.

http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/sa...cked-and-potentially-damaging-plugins.116749/

As far as I can tell both of those thread used code that accessed those packages. So my question is, "Is there any way that I can do this without violating this safeguard?"

Thanks in advance for any help

 

speed potions or setting velocity

 

How do I set velocity?

 

<some entity>.setVelocity(Vector)

 

Okay so I am trying to make the monsters become faster when they target an entity. However, I still don't know how to set the speed. Here's my code:

Code:

package net.richardsprojects.bukkit.apocalypse;
 
import org.bukkit.entity.Entity;
import org.bukkit.entity.Zombie;
import org.bukkit.event.EventHandler;
import org.bukkit.event.EventPriority;
import org.bukkit.event.Listener;
import org.bukkit.event.entity.EntityTargetLivingEntityEvent;
import org.bukkit.util.Vector;
 
public class ApocalypseEntityTargetEntityEvent implements Listener {
 
     @EventHandler(priority = EventPriority.HIGH)
      public void onEventPlace(EntityTargetLivingEntityEvent event) {
           Entity entity = event.getEntity();
 
           if (entity instanceof Zombie) {
                Vector newSpeed = entity.getVelocity().clone();
           }
       }
}

 

Isn't it easier to just give it a PotionEffect?

 

I thought I read somewhere that zombies weren't smart enough to use the increased speed.

 

Well I threw a bottle of Speed on one of them, certainly he got the brainz and ran after me like hell

 

Code:

Entity entity = Le Bukkit Entity;
EntityCreature ec = ((CraftCreature) entity).getHandle();
ec.getNavigation().a(SPEED);

I believe this would work?

SPEED is a float with 0.25 as the norm.

 

lol

 

Well I still want something a little bit more precise if I can get it.

Code:

Entity entity = Le Bukkit Entity;
EntityCreature ec = ((CraftCreature) entity).getHandle();
ec.getNavigation().a(SPEED);

Doesn't that access the craftbukkit and minecraft server packages?
Is there anyway to do by setting velocity like we were originally thinking. Also I can't get the right event. I was using the EntityTargetLivingEntityEvent but it doesn't seem to be called when the Monsters chase me. I tested it out by going in survival and having it print a message to the console when the event was run. Some monsters chased me but nothing was printed to the console.

Hate to double post but any ideas?

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.