AI Goal Selectors

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Goal Selectors are used with the AIGoalSelectors field and determine what mobs want to “do”. Certain custom goals might not work if they're not included in the base AI of the mob you're creating. For example, a zombie won't be able to use the AI goal “EatGrass” because a zombie would never use that goal in the first place. Feel free to experiment to figure out what does and doesn't work!

Example:

SuperMob:
  Type: zombie
  Health: 200
  Display: 'Superb Zombie'
  AIGoalSelectors:
  - clear
  - meleeattack
  - randomstroll

This zombie would attack players, and walk around randomly when not targeting an enemy.

All Mobs

AI Goal	Aliases	Description
clear	reset	Removes the AI from the mob
breakdoors		Causes the mob to break down doors it runs into
eatgrass		Makes the mob occasionally… eat grass
float	swim	Makes the mob swim in water/not sink
lookatplayers		The mob will look at nearby players
opendoors	opendoor	The mob will open doors it runs into and close the door behind it
closedoors	restrictopendoor	Not sure what this one does
randomlookaround	lookaround	The mob will randomly look around
gotospawnlocation	gotospawn	Mob will pathfind to the its spawn location
fleeConditional [Premium-only]	fleeIf	Causes the mob to flee based on provided conditions.
doNothing [Premium-only]		Causes the mob to do nothing if conditions are met. Safe speed is required for distanes greater than 5. This goal won't work at all on peaceful mode!

FleeConditional Example:

AIGoalSelectors:
- clear
- fleeConditional{distance=5;speed=2;safespeed=2;conditions=[ - inlineofsight true ]}

Creatures Only

AI Goal	Aliases	Description
avoidcreepers		Causes the mob to avoid Creepers
avoidskeletons		Causes the mob to avoid Skeletons
avoidzombies		Causes the mob to avoid Zombies
fleesun		The mob will hide in the shade when the sun it out
meleeattack		Causes the mob to move to and melee-attack its target
movetowardstarget		Causes the mob to move towards its target
randomstroll		The mob will randomly walk around
restrictsun		In theory this will keep the mob from entering sunlight
fleeplayers	runfromplayers	Causes the mob to avoid Players
fleegolems	runfromgolems	Causes the mob to avoid Iron Golems
fleevillagers	runfromvillagers	Causes the mob to avoid villagers
fleewolves	runfromwolves	Causes the mob to avoid wolves
fleefaction	runfromfaction	Causes the mob to avoid entities in a given faction
spiderattack		Uses the attack a spider would (doesn't seem any different from a meleeattack)
leapattarget		Makes the mob leap at its target
moveindoors
movethroughvillage
movetowardsrestriction
patrol x1,y1,z1;x2,y2,z2;x3,y3,z3;…	patrolroute	Makes the mob patrol between the specified locations
gotolocation x,y,z	goto	Makes the mob go to the specified location(Notice Followrange must more than the distance between location and mob)
gotoowner #		Makes the mob move towards its owner when beyond a certain distance (defaults to 5 blocks,Notice Followrange must more than the distance between location and mob)
gotoparent		Makes the mob move towards its parent mob
panicWhenOnFire	panic	Run around panicking when on fire and look for water
randomFly		Fly around randomly

Ranged Entities Only

AI Goal	Aliases	Description
arrowattack		Projectile attack (shooting a bow for a skeleton)
skeletonbowattack	bowshoot, bowmaster	Draw the bow and shoot the arrow

Piglins and Pillagers Only

AI Goal	Aliases	Description
crossbowAttack		attack with a crossbow

Target Selectors

Target Selectors are used with the AITargetSelectors field and determine what mobs try to target.

Example:

SuperMob:
  Type: zombie
  Health: 200
  Display: 'Superb Zombie'
  AIGoalSelectors:
  - clear
  - meleeattack
  - randomstroll
  AITargetSelectors:
  - clear
  - players
  - golems

All Creatures

AI Goal	Aliases	Description
clear		Special Option. Clears all of the mob's AI.
attacker	hurtbytarget, damager	Targets whatever attacks the mob
monsters		Targets monsters.
players		Targets players.
villagers		Targets villagers.
golems		Targets Golems.
nearestConditionalTarget [Premium-only]	nearestConditional, nearestIf	Targets the nearest entity that meets the conditions provided.

NearestConditionalTarget Example:

AITargetSelectors:
- clear
- nearestConditionalTarget{conditions=[
      - entitytype PLAYER true
      - hasaura{aura=marked_for_death} true
    ]}

All Creatures(Faction Support)

AI Goal	Description
OtherFaction	Targets ANY entities that are in a different faction.
OtherFactionMonsters	Targets any monsters that are in a different faction.
OtherFactionVillagers	Targets any villagers that are in a different faction.
SpecificFaction [faction_name]	Targets any entities that are in the given faction.
SpecificFactionMonsters [faction_name]	Targets any monsters that are in the given faction.

Example:

AITargetSelectors:
- SpecificFaction undead

This will force a mob to attack mobs only in the “undead” faction.

Tameable Creatures

AI Goal	Description
ownerattacker	Targets whatever attacks the mob's owner.
ownertarget	Targets whatever the mob's owner attacks.