Solved Detecting Murder

How do you detect if a player was killed another player? Also, how do you get info on both players (location, etc)

 

Code:java

@EventHandler
public void onPlayerDeath(PlayerDeathEvent event){
  Player killed = event.getEntity();
  Player killer = killed.getKiller();
 
  if(killer != null){
    //They were killed by a player
    //Do stuff
  }
}

 

Code:java

 
@EventHandler
private void onPlayerDamage(OnEntityDamageByEntityEvent event) {
if(event.getEntity() instanceof Player) {
if(event.getDamager() instanceof Player) {
//run stuff here
// event.getEntity().getLocation() will return a location object with the location of the damaged being
// event.getDamager().getLocation() will return a location object with the location of the damager
 
}
}
}

 

Skyshayde

Your code will be run when a player damages another player. Also, it's "EntityDamageByEntityEvent" not "OnEntityDamageByEntityEvent".

 

Thanks! It worked. I didn't know Player had that method.

 

Oh, I read that wrong, sorry

 

Sort of unrelated questions, in a EntityDamageByEntityEvent, I understand how to get the entity that gets damaged, but how do you get entity, or in my case the player, that caused the damage becasue getDamager() gets you the weapon used.

 

Does it? getDamager returns the entity who hit them for me

 

I think it's just event.getEntity();

 

That returns the entity who was hit. The javadocs say i am right.

getDamager()
Returns the entity that damaged the defender.

 

Trung_Lam Skyshayde
getDamager() is the entity that melee'd the victim but if the entity was shot by an arrow the damager is the arrow entity, you must check if the damager is instanceof Projectile, cast then get the shooter entity, then check if it's instanceof Player and so on...

Oh and there's also Tameable (as in tamed wolf attack) if you want to check that too... same thing, check instanceof, cast then get owner entity.