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

Multi-Entity Targeters

ThreatTable Targeters

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

Location Targeters

Single-Location Targeters

Multi-Location Targeters

Special Targeters

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 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:

• self
• 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
• HIGHEST_HEALTH
• LOWEST_HEALTH
• HIGHEST_THREAT
• LOWEST_THREAT