Minecraft Mods Programming Absolute Beginner’s Guide

25. Display a Mob’s Health During Combat

In This Chapter

• Track damage to mobs during combat

• Listen to events when a mob targets a player

• Listen to events when a player attacks a mob

• Display information about a mob in the game

• Retrieve a mob’s current health and maximum health

• Select different colors for text output in game text

• Use NetBeans to learn more about the Bukkit class library

Although Minecraft is commonly described as a building game, there’s also a lot of enjoyment to be had from facing off in combat against mobs, other players, and the occasional unfortunate animal when you need food, a leather hide, chicken feathers, or some other item.

The mod for this chapter enhances combat by adding a feature to Minecraft that ...