DamageModifiers

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Damage Modifiers

Damage Modifiers are an attribute you can add to your MythicMobs to increase or decrease the damage they receive from various sources.

Let's say an entity takes damage by a ENTITY_ATTACK type of damage and of amount 10. Depending on the value of its associated DamageModifier, different things will happen:

A value > 0: The amount of the damage would be multiplied by the value itself. If the value was 2, the damage would be doubled. If it was 0.5, it will be halved.
A value of 0: The damage event will not cause any damage, but would still play the damage animation
A value < 0: the associated damage event will be cancelled and the caster would be healed by the amount of the original damage multiplied by the absolute value of the damage modifier. If the value was -2, the caster would be healed by 20 hit points. If it was -0.1, it would be healed by 1 hit point.

Some of these won't work on certain mobs under normal circumstances (e.g. SUICIDE, as no mob naturally suicides).
Damage Modifiers are completely optional, you only need to add the ones you want to use.

See the spigot javadocs for a complete list of available damage types.

Options

Modifier	Explanation
BLOCK_EXPLOSION	Damage caused by being in the area when a block explodes.
CONTACT	Damage caused when an entity contacts a block such as a Cactus, Dripstone (Stalagmite) or Berry Bush.
CRAMMING	Damage caused when an entity is colliding with too many entities due to the maxEntityCramming game rule.
CUSTOM	Damage caused by “Custom”, sometimes used by other plugins.
DRAGON_BREATH	Damage caused by a dragon breathing fire.
DROWNING	Damage caused by running out of air while in water
DRYOUT	Damage caused when an entity that should be in water is not.
ENTITY_ATTACK	Damage caused when an entity attacks another entity.
ENTITY_EXPLOSION	Damage caused by being in the area when an entity, such as a Creeper, explodes.
ENTITY_SWEEP_ATTACK	Damage caused when an entity attacks another entity in a sweep attack.
FALL	Damage caused when an entity falls a distance greater than 3 blocks.
FALLING_BLOCK	Damage caused by being hit by a falling block which deals damage.
FIRE	Damage caused by direct exposure to fire
FIRE_TICK	Damage caused due to burns caused by fire
FLY_INTO_WALL	Damage caused when an entity runs into a wall while flying.
FREEZE	Damage caused from freezing.
HOT_FLOOR	Damage caused when an entity steps on Material.MAGMA_BLOCK.
LAVA	Damage caused by direct exposure to lava
LIGHTNING	Damage caused by being struck by lightning
MAGIC	Damage caused by being hit by a damage potion or spell
MELTING	Damage caused due to a snowman melting
POISON	Damage caused due to an ongoing poison effect
PROJECTILE	Damage caused when attacked by a projectile.
SONIC_BOOM	Damage caused by the Sonic Boom attack from Warden
STARVATION	Damage caused by starving due to having an empty hunger bar
SUFFOCATION	Damage caused by being put in a block
SUICIDE	Damage caused by committing suicide.
THORNS	Damage caused in retaliation to another attack by the Thorns enchantment.
VOID	Damage caused by falling into the void
WITHER	Damage caused by Wither potion effect

Examples

NOTE: A modifier of 1 will cause the mob to take normal damage from that source. A number higher than 1 will multiply the damage it takes by that amount. A number lower than 1 will reduce the damage it takes by that amount. And 0 will make the mob immune to that damage source. A negative value will cause the mob to heal from that type of damage. Note that this doesn't work if the mob is naturally immune to that damage, E.g. Iron Golems with FALL, Blazes with FIRE, FIRE_TICK, or LAVA. Etc.

In this first example our Armored Zombie mob is just a basic MythicMob with nothing added to it.

ArmoredZombie:
  Mobtype: zombie
  Display: '&aArmored Zombie'
  Health: 40
  Damage: 6

But, if we add the DamageModifiers attribute to him we can start messing around with his weaknesses and resistances. In this example we are going to make it so melee and projectile attacks only do 75% of their normal damage to our Armored Zombie.

ArmoredZombie:
  Mobtype: zombie
  Display: '&aArmored Zombie'
  Health: 40
  Damage: 6
  DamageModifiers:
  - ENTITY_ATTACK 0.75
  - PROJECTILE 0.75

Alright, we have our damage resistant zombie now. Any melee and projectile damage it receives will be reduced by 25% (This includes from players and other mobs.) but now he seems a little overpowered, so, lets give him a weakness to go along with it.

ArmoredZombie:
  Mobtype: zombie
  Display: '&aArmored Zombie'
  Health: 40
  Damage: 6
  DamageModifiers:
  - ENTITY_ATTACK 0.75
  - PROJECTILE 0.75
  - MAGIC 1.25

Our little Armored Zombie is still well protected against projectile and melee attacks, but we have given him a weakness to magic (splash health potions) to compensate.

Our second example is a fire elemental, not only does this mob not take damage from burning, it also heals health when standing in fire, and regains even more health when in lava. Note: This DOES NOT work on Nether mobs as they don't take damage from fire at all, preventing them from having their fire and lava damage modified.

FireElemental:
  Mobtype: zombie
  Display: '&cFire Elemental'
  Health: 20
  DamageModifiers:
  - FIRE -1
  - LAVA -4
  - FIRE_TICK 0