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Targeters

Targeters are used to determine what a skill targets when it is fired.

Targeters are always required (or the mob won't know what it is attacking), and forgetting a targeter is probably one of the most common mistakes people new to MythicMobs make.

If a targeter is used with a meta skill, then all of the skills inside of the meta skill inherit the parent targeter. It is important to keep that in mind as excessive targeter use is a common cause of poor server performance. Of course, you can overwrite the parent targeter for individual skills inside of the meta skill by giving them their own targeter to use, and there are even a few targeters that work specifically off of inherited targets.

Targeters can be as complex or as simple as you want them!

Entity Targeters

Single-Entity Targeters

Targeter	Shorthand	Description
@Self		Targets the mob itself
@Target		Targets the mob's target
@Trigger		Targets the entity that triggered the skill
@NearestPlayer{r=#}		Targets the nearest player in radius. r=5 by default
@WolfOwner		Targets the owner of the wolf
@Owner		Targets the owner of the mob
@Mount (MM 2.5.0+)		Targets the entity that the mob is currently riding
@Parent		Targets the parent if mob was summoned by other mob.
@Children		Targets any child entities summoned by the caster.
@Passenger		Targets the rider of the mob.
@CasterSpawnLocation		Targets the location the caster spawned at.
@PlayerByName{name="Ashijin"}		Targets a specific player by name, supports placeholders. Added in 4.12
@Vehicle		Targets the Vehicle you are mounted on Added in 4.12

Multi-Entity Targeters

Targeter	Shorthand	Description
@LivingInCone{a=90.0;r=16.0;rot=0.0}	@EIC{}	Targets all living entities in cone with angle a and length of r with rotation rot relative to direction
@LivingInWorld	@EIW	Targets all living entities in casters world
@LivingEntitiesInRadius{r=#}		Targets all entities in the given radius
@PlayersInRadius{r=#}	@PIR{r=#}	Targets all players in the given radius
@MobsInRadius{r=#;types=X,X,X}	@MIR{r=#;t=X,X,X}	Targets all mobs of the given type in a radius
@EntitiesInRadius{r=#;types=X,X,X}	@EIR{r=#;t=X,X,X}	Targets all entities in the given radius (not sure of difference to LEIR)
@PlayersInWorld	@World	Targets all players in the current world.
@PlayersOnServer	@Server	Targets all players in the server.
@PlayersInRing{min=#;max=#}		Target all players within the specified "ring" of radiis's.
@PlayersNearOrigin{r=#}		Targets players near the origin of a meta-skill.
@MobsNearOrigin{r=#;t=X}
@EntitiesNearOrigin{r=#}
@PlayersNearTargetLocation{r=#}	@PNTL{r=#}	Targets all players near targetlocation. Radius=5 by default.
@Siblings		Targets the siblings of the target.

ThreatTable Targeters

These targeters only work if the mob has Threat Tables enabled.

Targeter	Shorthand	Description
@RandomThreatTarget	@RTT	Targets a random person on the threat table
@ThreatTable	@TT	Targets all entities on the threat table
@ThreatTablePlayers		Targets all players on the threat table
@RTTL		Targets the location of a random target on the threat table

Location Targeters

Single-Location Targeters

Targeter	Shorthand	Description
@SelfLocation		Targets the mob's location itself
@Forward{f=5;y=0.0}		Targets a location 5 blocks infront of entities direction with yoffset 0.0
@TargetLocation		Targets the mob's target's location
@TriggerLocation		Targets the location of the entity that triggered the skill
@Location{c=x,y,z,yaw,pitch}		The skill will target the coordinates specified. yaw and pitch were added in MM 4.11
@Origin{yoffset=0}		Targets the location of the "origin" or "source" of a meta-skill. While that is usually the casting mob, there are special cases where that is not true (such as with the Projectile Skill, where the "origin" is the location of the projectile).
@Spawner{s=[string]}		Targets the location of the specified spawner(s). The string can be the name of a spawner, or a a group of spawners (using g:groupname), and also accepts wildcards (Spawner* would target Spawner1,Spawner2,Spawner3,etc)
@ObstructingBlock		Targets any block in the way of pathfinding

Multi-Location Targeters

Targeter	Shorthand	Description
@PlayerLocationsInRadius{r=#}	@PLIR{r=#}	Targets all player locations in the given radius
@Ring{radius=#;points=#}		Target points to form a ring of locations
@Cone{angle=#;points=#;range=#;rotation=#;}		Returns the # of points target locations that comprise a cone (Note: Cone is fixed on the y-axis, and cannot be rotated up or down)
@EntitiesInCone{angle=#;range=#;rotation=#;}		Targets all entities within the cone
@BlocksInRadius{r=#;shape=circle/square}		Targets the locations of all blocks within radius

Special Targeters

Targeter	Shorthand	Description
@None		Provides no target. (Useful for mechanics with no target input.)

These are meta-targeters- they can only be used inside of skills. For example:

Laser:
  Mobtype: creeper
  Display: 'Laser'
  Health: 12
  AITargetSelectors:
  - 0 clear
  - 1 players
  Skills:
  - skill{s=Laser} @target
Laser:
  Skills:
  - ignite @line{r=1}

In the mobs skill, the target specified there is the end point that the meta-targeter uses.

Targeter	Shorthand	Description
@Line{radius=#;fromorigin=true/false}	@Line{r=#;fo=true/false}	Targets locations between the mob and the specified target
@EntitiesInLine{r=#;fo=true/false}	@EIL{r=#;fo=true/false}	Targets any entities in a line between the target and the casting mob.
@LivingNearTargetLocation{radius=5}	@LNTL{r=#}	Targets all living entities near meta-targeter location.
@PlayersNearTargetLocation{radius=5}	@LNTL{r=#}	Targets all players near meta-targeter location.
@RLNTE{a=#;r=#;s=#;minr=#;}		Targets random locations around targeted entities. (Example usage: Meteor skill. Amount would determine how many meteors there will be, radius is how wide the field of falling meteors will be, and the spacing will be how far apart they'll be spaced apart. Generally keep the radius larger than spacing, as it is untested how a smaller radius with a large spacing will do. - zDrakon
@FloorOfTargets		Targets the blocks underneath the targets
@LocationsOfTargets		Targets the location of the targets

Targeter Options

Target Filters

Target Filters allow you to filter out certain targets, and make targeters a lot more flexible.

They are used with two options (available on ANY entity-targeter):

ignore=X
target=X

For example, to make a targeter that will ignore any players or non-hostile mobs, you'd use this:

damage{a=20} @EntitiesInRadius{r=10;ignore=players,animals}

To make a targeter ONLY target players, you'd do something like this:

skill{s=ASkill} @EntitiesInRadius{r=5;target=players}

Possible filters include:

animals (non-hostile mobs)
creative (ignored by default)
creatures (any type of sentient entity)
flyingmobs
monsters (hostile mobs)
NPCs (Citizens NPCs, ignored by default)
players
samefaction (mobs marked with the same faction type)
spectators (ignored by default)
vanilla
watermobs
More coming later...

You can also turn off specific filters by just adding the option targetXXXXX replacing XXXXX with the filter name, e.g. targetPlayers=false or targetcreative=true

Target Limits

All entity targeters also support target limits (as of v4.5). With this you can limit how many things you target, including the order in which they are selected.

This is done with the options:

limit=#
sort=X

Lets say you want your ability to only target the 2 nearest players within 30 yards. To do this, you'd simply set the limit 2 to and sort by nearest:

@PlayersInRadius{r=30;limit=2;sort=NEAREST}

Currently sort can have the following values:

NONE (usually sorts by how long the entity has existed)
RANDOM
NEAREST
FURTHEST