Solved Disable arrow pickup

While using "player.launchProjectile(Arrow.class);", you can shoot arrows and pick them up. I want to disable the pickup of arrows while using this or for those with a permission.

Is it possible? Thanks in advance!

 

You can either remove the arrow when it hits the ground, or cancel the PlayerPickupItemEvent.

 

chasechocolate If I were to cancel the PlayerPickupItemEvent, would it disable picking up items? If it doesn't, how can I set it so it just disables the picking up of arrows?

 

This will disable all picking up of arrows, drops or hit arrows:

Code:java

public void onArrowPickup(PlayerPickupItemEvent event){
Player player = event.getPlayer();
if(event.getItem() == new ItemStack(Material.ARROW)){
if(!(player.hasPermission("arrowpickup.bypass") || player.isOp())){
event.setCancelled(true);
}
}
}

Just don't send a message to the player when they try to pick it up, because it spams their chat :/

But a more reliable way to do this, would be to remove the arrow when it hits something:

Code:java

public void onArrowHit(ProjectileHitEvent event){
  if(event.getEntity() instanceof Arrow){
    Arrow arrow = (Arrow) event.getEntity();
    arrow.remove();
  }
}

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Thanks very much.

 

Did you add @EventHandler and

Code:java

this.getServer().getPluginManager().registerEvents(yourclass, this);

 

Yeah I did that before, deleted my post.

Sorry, I'm now getting errors on my class "SwordBowListener"at: "this.getServer().getPluginManager().registerEvents(SwordBowListener, this);"

The error says:
SwordBowListener cannot be resolved to a variable.

Just to be correct, I add this in the onEnable, correct?

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It needs to be "new SwordBowListener". And, yes, add it to your onEnable().

 

chasechocolate Adding new just gives me another error telling me to delete the token.

 

Is the code in the same class that has your onEnable? If so, use this.getServer().getPluginManager().registerEvents(this, this);

 

getServer().getPluginManager().registerEvents(new SwordBowListener(this), this);

If you don't have any constructors:
getServer().getPluginManager().registerEvents(new SwordBowListener(), this);

 

Schedule a delayed task and remove the entity. Also delay the pickup time till the entity is gone.

 

Thanks everyone. Solved!