How do i make a mob always know where you are?

[elder schooner]

Hi, I've been searching this but no luck at all.
Thought that would be the job of a datapack, I wanted to make a specific mob or any mob of a certain class to always know my location, even behind walls and even if it doesn't sees me.

(Plus, I know nothing about datapacks, like ZERO, so if anyone has directions I'd be thankful!)

[sharp surge]

you can modify the data of the angry at field and the anger time field if the mob is a nuteral mob

[elder schooner]

anrgy at field? 🤔

[sharp surge]

what mob are you trying to work with?

[elder schooner]

More specifically it's a enemy mob by the way

[elder schooner]

Warden basically, I know Warden can hear you but let's say the player is like extremely far, it wouldn't

[sharp surge]

hmm then I think you've run into the limitations of what is possible with datapacks

there is no way to directly access the AI pathfinding of a mob

only through data fields

[elder schooner]

Can i make it at least always angry at me? If i recall mobs always know where you are when they're aggro with you, zombie as an example

[sharp surge]

yea you can hit it with a snowball that has the owner field set to the uuid of the player

[elder schooner]

Owner field? 🤔

I'm quite unsure as to how i'd even start doing that

[sharp surge]

if you do data get <entity> you can see a lot of fields which you can modify using /data modify

https://minecraft.wiki/w/Commands/data

[elder schooner]

Oh damn didn't knew that existed, will try that out
Is that also how you set the snowball you said?

[sharp surge]

you can use data modify entity <the_snowball> set from entity <player> UUID

[elder schooner]

Sorry how would i reference the snowball here? like as a entity?

I'm quite confused on that

[sharp surge]

I have to recommend our beginners guide for datapacks to you

[elder schooner]

Will take a look at it, thank you!

[rich kernel]

There is a much more elegant way to do it actually

You can use data modify entity <warden> last_hurt_by_mob set from entity <player> UUID... This will make the Warden think that the player just hit it! You can do something super similar with the damage command too

You just have to figure out how to use selectors (@s, @e, @n, @p, and all the specific fields/filters in square brackets after them) to make the Warden and the player get referenced properly

If the command/function is run/executed as the Warden, use @s for the warden and maybe something like @p for the nearest player

P.S. If you're using the data modify command, don't run it constantly or else the warden will glitch out and not be able to do anything bc its data is constantly being reset

Hope this helps!! :D ✨🌸

[elder schooner]

Oh damn that's super useful! thank you!

[elder schooner]

So like every 10 seconds or so?

or like till the mob's anger wear out?

[rich kernel]

I would recommend every 10 seconds or so ^w^

[elder schooner]

Alright will do that, thank you very much!

Doesn't seem to work at all sadly

/damage seems to work tho i'll keep testing with it

[still zodiac]

A warden has special anger mechanics that work with a suspects list/array. You can try the wiki or perform data get on a warden that is angry.

The snowball or damage method is probably going to be easier

[rich kernel]

wait I might have gotten the command wrong...

It could be entity instead of mob

[elder schooner]

What wiki exactly? the normal minecraft wiki?

[elder schooner]

oh yeah the damage seems to work yeah I'll do based on it

[elder schooner]

It is but even so, didn't work with data modify :p
I'll use the damage method seems to do exactly what I wanted

Thank y'all!