Trigger events

These are the events that start the "checking chain" to verify if a light is ready to activate or not. Every time one of this things happen, the related event fires and checks if there are enough conditions to activate the light.

• Getting attacked by an entity
• Attacking
• Ally getting attacked
• Ally dying
• Falling (not necessarily taking damage)
• Freezing
• Burning
• Drowning
• Armor or tool breaking
• Getting struck by a lightning bolt

Conditions

These are used to check if a light is ready to activate or not. The combination of these varies between light type and target types, and you can even modify them per light-type and target-type in the Trigger Config.

Low health

When you get attacked by something, like a Zombie or another player, the mod tries to predict the amount of damage you will receive with the next hit. If it is below a certain percent, configurable in the (main) config file, it contributes to trigger threshold. It's the most common, to some extent it's part of every light triggering mechanism, even if sometimes it is not a requirement. For the ALLIES and other creatures a different value is used as the percentage, which is configurable as well.

The damage prediction is based on the damage that the last Entity that has attacked you, including your armor, status effects and attributes.

Having low armor durability

Having low armor durability and thus risking to be without protection within the next hits. Percentage of durability configurable. This check can be disabled in the main config.

Being surrounded

If you are surrounded by enough enemies (configurable), which by default are Hostile entities and player listed as Enemies in your faction/party, it will contribute to the trigger threshold. Most of the time, not by much. It can be disabled in the main config.

Being surrounded by allies

If you are surrounded by allies (as in same faction/pets etc, see the other wiki pages) it will contribute to the trigger threshold.

Falling

If you are falling, it will contribute to the trigger threshold, with a different weight depending on how much you are falling.

Burning

If you are burning, it will contribute to the trigger threshold.

Freezing

If you are freezing, it will contribute to the trigger threshold.

Drowning

If you are drowning, it will contribute to the trigger threshold.

Being near leaves

If you are near enough leaves blocks (7, configurable), it will contribute to the trigger threshold.

Raining

If it's currently raining, it will contribute to the trigger threshold.

Having a negative status effect

If you are under the effect of an Harmful potion effect (like Poison, Weakness and such) it will contribute to the trigger threshold.

Light Conditions

These are specific to (almost) each light type. They are usually required in order to reach the trigger threshold.

These checks can also apply to your allies in some cases.