Cancel Arrow Despawning?

I am making a plugin where a zombie can sit down, and I can only accomplish that by having him sit on arrows. However, the arrows despawn after a few minutes. Is there any event that's called? I've already tried setting the ticks lived to -12500, and using this event:

Code:java

 
    @EventHandler
    public void entityDespawnEvent(ItemDespawnEvent e){
        if (e.getEntityType() == EntityType.ARROW) {
            e.getEntity().setTicksLived(1);
            e.setCancelled(true);
            }
    }

 

Use this code:

Code:java

@EventHandler
public void onDespawn(ItemDespawnEvent event){
if(event.getEntity().getType.equals(EntityType.ARROW)){
e.setCancelled(true);
}
}

You can also check out the doxygen page: http://jd.bukkit.org/rb/doxygen/d6/...t_1_1event_1_1entity_1_1ItemDespawnEvent.html

 

Ice3ider4 Doesn't work.

 

The only things I see that could be wrong with that solution is the event is not being registered, or another plugin is stopping it from being cancelled.

 

scarabcoder Some code from NMS
https://github.com/Bukkit/CraftBukk...va/net/minecraft/server/EntityArrow.java#L142
The EntityDeathEvent may be fired for this, try debugging and see if it is.

 

xTigerRebornx After looking through that section, I don't see a mention of any event being fired.

 

cs475x Yeah, doing some research, EntityDeathEvent is only fired for LivingEntities (which an Arrow isn't)
ItemDespawnEvent won't be fired either, since its not an Item.

 

xTigerRebornx cs475x Is there any way to check if an arrow despawns??

 

scarabcoder Does the event fire for arrows? If it does, you could spawn another arrow in the same place. If it doesn't... I guess you could try and edit the counter using nms & reflection, but chances are that's probably too advanced.

 

AdamQpzm Even if it did, spawning an arrow in the same place wouldn't work. A zombie is actually riding it.

 

scarabcoder Spawn new arrow and then make the zombie ride the new arrow instead.

 

AdamQpzm Yes, but as said before, there isn't any event fired for when it despawns.

 

scarabcoder

 

@OP are you trying to despawn an actual arrow or an arrow Item? Because there's a significant difference.

Ice3ider4 Regardless of what he was trying to do, please don't spoonfeed undocumented and blatantly incorrect (wouldn't even compile) code...

 

I'm trying to KEEp from despawning an arrow entity. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

 

Garris0n Hm... I don't think there's anything wrong with my code and I just wanted to give him an idea on how to solve the problem.

Edit: I'm sorry I fixxed them now :s

 

Ice3ider4 Your code has a strange aversion to the use of parenthesis. This will hold it back in the Java world.

 

AdamQpzm Yep I did some mistakes because I wrote it without my development environment ._.

 

Ice3ider4 I don't spoonfeed code, but if I was to I wouldn't miss out almost half the parenthesis or say "use this" and "don't think there's anything wrong with my code", with or without an IDE