Mob health being set to 1024?

So, im trying to set a mob max health to a random number between 4000 and 8000. however, when the mob spawns, it shows an error saying that the health must be between 0 to 1024, how do i bypass that?

 

@Profaann can you post code and stacktrace?

 

@Profaann
You can't. The reason it want it to be between 0 and 1024 is because it has to send the amount of health the Entity has to the player and the packet is byte specific. The server can only send up to a certain amount of bytes.

Try setting the max health to "1024", and just modifying the amount of damage received (E.g 2 hit damaged reduced to 0.5)

 

Well, there is a server at 1.8, and mobs have like 8k hp

 

@Profaann
It's not "real" 8K health. What is happening is the damage has been scaled down.

 

It its not scaled down, as the health of the mob displays and the dmg applied also displays, i think its faked.

 

Uh huh. What you're seeing is the health "scaled up" ( it's not actually that, it's just printing it that way. E.g. ".getHealth() *8" )

 

You could create a custom entity and auto its health there couldnt u?

 

What do you mean "auto it's health"? Do you mean using Entity.setMaxHealth? Because that's what causing the "problem" (not really a problem, just something you have to work around.).

 

No its not :c

 

Now how do you know that? You already proved that you can't set the max health above 1024. The only way this could have been possible is if they used a custom entity (if that even works) or what @Zombie_Striker said.
They also could have just ignored the mob's health and stuck with their own health system.

 

So then create a Hash Map that store an entities' uuid along with their health, then create a damage listener and set the damage they receive to 0 and manage their health through your hash map. However this means you're gonna have to store it for persistence.

 

Gonna try that