damage

Description

Damages the targeted entity.

Attributes

Non-Inheritable Attributes

Attribute	Aliases	Description	Default
amount	a	The amount of damage to deal	1

Inheritable Attributes

Attribute	Aliases	Description	Default
ignoreArmor	ia, i	Whether or not to ignore armor, but will still use enchantment modifiers when calculating total damage	false
preventknockback	pkb, pk	Whether or not to prevent knockback	false
preventimmunity	pi	Whether or not to prevent the damage immunity ticks on the target by setting them to 0 after the damage is inflicted	false
damagecause	dc, cause	Sets the damage cause for this damage mechanic. (This option is only available for 1.17+)	entity_attack
ignoreenchantments	ignoreenchants, ie	Whether or not to ignore enchantments when calculating total damage. (This option is only available for 1.19+)	false
noanger	na	Whether or not to generate anger when damaging the entity	false
ignoreinvulnerability	ignoreinvulnerable, ii	Whether or not to ignore the damage immunity ticks on the target by setting them to 0 before the damage is inflicted	false
ignoreshield	is	Whether or not to ignore the shield blocking on the target	false
damageshelmet	dh	Whether or not the helmet should be damaged	false
ignoreeffects	ieff	Whether or not effects should be ignored	false
ignoreresistance	ir	Whether or not resistance should be ignored	false
poweraffectsdamage	pad	Should the skill's power affect the damage inflicted	true
tags	tag	Allows you to specify any number of arbitrary tags for the damage mechanic using `tags=THIS,THAT`
damagetype	element, e	Becomes one of the Tags
triggerSkills	ts	Whether the damage mechanic should also be able to trigger `onAttack` related triggers	false

DamageCause Attribute

This attribute is only available in newer MM 5.0 builds. All available damage causes can be found on spigot javadocs

Note: Only entity_attack, entity_sweep_attack, thorns, sonic_boom, entity_explosion, and projectile will return an entity damager, meaning that <trigger.name> will not return "Unknown".

Element Attribute

As seen above, the damage mechanic offers the ability to set an "element" for the damage, like so:

- damage{amount=10;element=FIRE} @target ~onUse
- damage{amount=10;element=ICE} @target ~onUse

This element can be named anything, and can be used in a mob's DamageModifiers to alter resistance to the damage type as needed:

DamageModTest: 
  Type: COW 
  DamageModifiers:
  - LIGHTNING 0.1
  - FIRE 2.0
  - AIR 1.0
  - ICE 0.5 
  Skills:
  - message{m="Damaged by <skill.var.damage-type> for <skill.var.damage-amount>"} @PIR{r=50} ~onDamaged

These options can also be used in the "onDamaged" aura, using the damageMods="FIRE 0.5" attribute.

Tags Attribute

- damage{amount=5;tags=WITCHCURSE,FIRE}

This allows you to set any tag you want on this type of damage to be used with the DamageTag condition.

Tags are arbitrary, and can thus have any name, as long as that does not contain invalid characters.
You can set an indefinite number of tags for each damage mechanic.

Examples

  Skills:
  - damage{amount=20;ignoreArmor=true} @target ~onTimer:20

FreezeBlast:
  Skills:
  - effect:sound{s=block.fire.extinguish;v=1;p=0.5} @PIR{r=6}
  - effect:particles{p=explode;a=8;vs=0.5;hs=0.5;s=0;y=1;repeat=5;repeatInterval=20} @PIR{r=6}
  - effect:particles{p=drip_water;a=10;vs=0.5;hs=0.5;s=0;y=1;repeat=5;repeatInterval=20} @PIR{r=6}
  - potion{t=SLOW;d=120;l=6} @PIR{r=6}
  - damage{a=120;pkb=true} @PIR{r=6}

A more complex use of the damage mechanic can give illusions of say Ice attacks like the example above. Which uses effects to make the targets of the mob appear as if they were frozen by using particles (On a repeating interval to create a sort of lingering frost effect as well) and inflicting Slowness level 7 (which is -105% movement speed.) slowing the mob to a halt. Additionally, the mechanic inflicts 120 damage (60 hearts) to players within 6 blocks.

Premium Example

  Skills:
  - damage{amount=<caster.var.somevariable> * 0.5 + 1} @target ~onTimer:20

This skill above does "<caster.var.somevariable> * 0.5 + 1" damage if the varibute: <caster.var.somevariable>'s value is 5,this mechaine will does 3.5 damage