Applying damage to a player

I'm working on my first plugin, and trying to find a way to apply suffocation damage until the player dies. I have tried creating new instances of entity damage events, but they do nothing at all (I don't even know if this is a proper way of doing it). Any suggestions are much appreciated. Thanks!

 

Yes, you are correct in that you do not want to create new instances of entity damage events. They are used for doing stuff when an event fires, e.g. a cow gets hit by a Player would trigger an EntityDamageByEntityEvent.

You might want to try (not sure though)
-Get player from command (/command <player>)
-Set the remaining air of the player to 0, and continually set that to 0 until the player dies.

i.e.

Code:java

while (!player.isDead())
{
  player.setRemainingAir(0);
}

 

I tried this and nothing happened. In trying this though, I found the 'damage()' method for the player object, and tried a 'for' loop to damage until death, but had no effect. Any thoughts?

Correction: I figured out how do damage the player until death, but need a way to control the rate. As of now, it runs through the loop unrestricted and kills in under a quarter of a second, but I'm aiming to kill the player at the same rate as standard suffocation would. Is there a method that will delay damage for x amount of ticks?
My 'for' loop: (Please disregard the funky spacing; it pasted in the spacing from Eclipse I think)

Code:

for (double var1 = target.getHealth(); !target.isDead(); var1 = var1 - 1) {
                    target.damage(0);
                    target.setHealth(var1);
                }

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