Custom mob health

i was wondering if it's possible to give a mob custom health? Meaning instead of the average amount of health they have I could set it to something else. .setHealth() doesn't work in this way it seems, after a few attempts. So is it possible or will I have to do some kind of illusion

 

Try something like increasing the damage done to it, if the ways you tried since now didn't work.
For example:
Pig has 20 hearts and you hit it with a sword giving 5 damage to it.
If you want the pig to only have 10 hearts instead, multiply the damage done to it with 20/10 (=2).

 

@Ahmet094 Would this be in EntityDamageEntity event? And instead of multiplying the damage would dividing it to lower the damage work? I would really appreciate an example.

 

Code:

    int pig_original_health = 30;
    int pig_new_health = 20;
    @EventHandler
    public void modifiedDamage(EntityDamageByEntityEvent e){ 
        if(e.getEntityType() == EntityType.PIG){
            e.setDamage(e.getDamage()*(pig_original_health/pig_new_health));
        }
    }

Just an example. Neither effective nor perfect.

 

@Ahmet094 The original health would have to be 10 for pigs though.

@chris8787878787 And why would .setHealth not work? Did you use .setMaxHealth too?

 

@au2001 Yes. I think .setHealth just confuses the code into thinking I want to set its health to a number within its normal max health, nothing more.

 

@chris8787878787 Use:
Damageable.setMaxHealth(Math.min(health, Damageable.getMaxHealth()));
and then:
Damageable.setHealth(health);

 

@au2001 Still doesn't work :/ Does that normally work for you? It still gives me that same error: "Health must be between 0 and 20.0"

@au2001 Ah, nevermind, solved it. Thanks though.

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

 

@chris8787878787
Mark as solved if solved.