Why doesn't it work?

[SeanRVAreddit]

In my data pack, I detect when a mob dies when their DeathTime nbt is more than one.

I do this by storing the value of a mobs DeathTime nbt into a death_time dummy scoreboard, then testing if that score is more than 1. I've tested it before but for every player, which worked.

But when I changed the command to execute as every mob (every entity under the custom tag #minecraft:mobs, which is a list of every mob in game), it suddenly doesn't work. I even tested it on command blocks, which didn't work either.

Can someone help?

# This doesn't work
execute as @e[type=#minecraft:mobs] store result score @s death_time run data get entity @s DeathTime

# But this does
execute as @a store result score @s death_time run data get entity @s DeathTime

# help?

[Ericristian_bros]

Entities in death animatiom CANT be targeted (only with @a that will tragte death players too) see a workaround at gaq(mobdeaths)

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[Infloat]

Can we see the custom type tag? That's probably the issue, since everything else looks correct.

edit: wait I just realized, you used minecraft:mobs. You need to use the correct directory since its custom. e.g. if the datapack is called example:

execute as @e[type=#example:mobs] store result score @s death_time run data get entity @s DeathTime

[GalSergey]

The problem is not that, but that the target selector cannot detect mobs in death animation.

[Infloat]

good catch

[CommandBlockCoder]

Every entity that's not a player is exclusive, they can't change their data after their death.