Solved Check if a snowball killed a Player?

Hey there,
I'm using the EntityDamageByEntity event, to make a snowball fight plugin (private). When the snowball hits it sets the damage as 2 hearts, etc. That all works fine.

What I want to know, is how do I check when a Snowball kills a player?

I thought by fetching the LastDamageCause (LDC), then fetching the entity from the LDC on a PlayerDeathEvent would work. However, it does not. So I thought, I'll check using a DamageCause.PROJECTILE. However, that only works for Arrows. Any suggestions?

 

EntityDeathEvent
if(e.getKiller().getType().equals(EntityType.snowball))
//its a snowball

 

Tried that, however, the getKiller() method, will return the actual killer, not the entity that killed them.
Eg. If a player shot a player. getKiller() would return a Player now an Arrow or a Snowball.

 

oh yeah :/ wow idk then.
ProjectileHitEvent maybe.

 

Why is a Snowball not a Projectile?

EDIT: Or is it because the Snowball, by default doesn't do any damage. Therefore it can't be a cause?

 

so how can it kill a player?
custom damage?

 

SnowBalls are projectiles.
But the method .getKiller() always returns a player.

On entity damage, you could check if their health is 0

 

Use getLastDamageCause() ?

 

That in combination with a check if:

• the EntityDamageEvent is an instanceof EntityDamageByEntityEvent
• if the damager is an instanceof Snowball

 

When you set the damage for the snowball, check if the player's health == 0. If so, go ahead.

 

Isn't the problem located in that the damage is not actually coming from the snowball itself, but from the plugin lowering the targets health?
In my eyes you wouldn't be able to check what entity killed him if he was killed by code. (Correct me if I'm wrong, just brainstorming here )

 

Code:java

player.damage(2, <insert Snowball entity here>)

How about this? (or set the damage in the EntityDamageByEntityEvent if the damager is a Snowball)

 

I used setDamage() from EntityDamageByEntity event. Turns out, it worked, but, I forgot to fire the event itself.