Shoot carrots that damage

How can I shoot carrots upon right clicking with an item in hand, those carrots should be the dropped entity and they should shoot forward and upon hitting deal damage how do I do that?

 

Listen for when the player right clicks, drop the item at the players location, set the velocity of the item, then run a runnable that every tick check if its the same location as a player.

 

Awesome thinking man!
I like this.

 

@AcePilot10 What Velocity should I add if I want it to shoot like 20 blocks ahead?

 

Just off the tip of my head I think somewhere around the velocity multiplied by 3 should be good.

 

@AcePilot10 thanks for your help, its solved now.

 

Or you could spawn a snowball and let the carrot item ride the snowball and send a PacketPlayOutEntityDestroy to make the snowball invisible

 

@FisheyLP I now did this using an arrow, a carrot is riding it but I want the arrow to be invisible, how to do that?

Code:

Arrow A = p.getPlayer().launchProjectile(Arrow.class);
                                    ItemStack item = new ItemStack(Material.CARROT_ITEM);
                                     Location x = new Location(p.getWorld(), p.getLocation().getX(), p.getLocation().getY()+15, p.getLocation().getZ());
                                     Entity e = p.getWorld().dropItemNaturally(x,(item));
                                     A.setPassenger(e);
                                     A.setKnockbackStrength(1);  

 

I think it was:

Code:

PacketPlayOutEntityDestroy packet = new PacketPlayOutEntityDestroy(arrow.getEntityId());
((CraftPlayer) p).getHandle().playerConnection.sendPacket(packet);

 

@FisheyLP that doesn't work, it does make the arrow invisible but an entity cannot ride it anymore. Any ideas?

 

Just do it like this:
make an arrayList of items (or uuids if you wanna be super efficient)
every tick (0 tick scheduler) for all items in the list you do item.getNearbyEntities(x,y,z); (xyz being the size of the hitbox). That returns a list of entities. for all those entities you damage them and delete the carrrot.
remember to also delete it from the array
if there are no nearby entities the carrot wont be destroyed.
Thank me later