(Gargalon) NPC AI

[arctic hornet]

I wanted to create a goal/behavior where a mob follows another mob but targets an enemy player if its within 10 blocks of its following target

Right now I have a follow behavior and a target behavior, the problem is that once it targets an enemy, the behavior status is RUNNING and its following behavior is never checked/ran, so it continues to target the player and ignores its 10 block follow behavior

I know this is probably easily doable in one behavior but Im wondering what is the best way to do it in two.

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(Gargalon) NPC AI

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[royal nest]

you could have a condition behavior wrapping them

there's so many ways to do this it's hard to say one

@arctic hornet

[arctic hornet]

like this?

GoalController goalController = npc.getDefaultGoalController();
goalController.addGoal(new IfElse(
        () -> target.getLocation().distanceSquared(npc.getStoredLocation()) < 10 * 10,
        new NPCTargetGoal(...),
        new NPCFollowGoal(...)
), 1);```
ive tried this before and it doesnt seem to work, since the condition is only checked once

[royal nest]

@arctic hornet you could have a StatusMapper there if you want to change the result sometimes

there's a lot of ways to do this

[arctic hornet]

The StatusMapper doesnt give you the BehaviorStatus of the wrapped behavior which I need since I dont want to keep returning a specific status when my wrapped behavior is returns another special case status (ex. when the target dies)

i think just making a separate goal combining the two is the easiest, if you have a simpler solution im all ears

[royal nest]

StatusMapper lets you execute the wrapped behavior yourself

[arctic hornet]

oh yea i see

[royal nest]

or you could have parallel behaviors

you know, there's a lot of ways to do this

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