Why Isn't my custom entity shooting fireballs? (Minecraft Bedrock Addon Making) - json

Question

I'm fairly new in making addons for Minecraft Bedrock, and right now I'm trying to make an addon that adds the "Wildfire" mob from the Minecon votes. And I basically got everything right I got the model, the animations and the melee attack. But, for some reason the "Wildfire" won't shoot the "fireballs" I basically copied the code from the vanilla Minecraft entity Blaze code. I've searched everywhere but no luck since theres not much topics/q&a on Minecraft Bedrock. I have no idea why this won't work. Please help me, thanks in advance!
"mode_switcher": {
"minecraft:target_nearby_sensor": {
"inside_range": 2.0,
"outside_range": 3.0,
"must_see": true,
"on_inside_range": {
"event": "switch_to_melee",
"target": "self"
},
"on_outside_range": {
"event": "switch_to_ranged",
"target": "self"
}
}
},
"ranged_mode": {
"minecraft:behavior.ranged_attack": {
"priority": 3,
"burst_shots": 3,
"burst_interval": 0.3,
"charge_charged_trigger": 0.0,
"charge_shoot_trigger": 4.0,
"attack_interval_min": 3.0,
"attack_interval_max": 5.0,
"attack_radius": 16.0
},
"minecraft:shooter": {
"def": "minecraft_small_fireball"
}
},
"events": {
"minecraft:entity_spawned": {
"add": {
"component_groups": [
"mode_switcher"
]
}
},
"switch_to_melee": {
"remove": {
"component_groups": [
"ranged_mode"
]
},
"add": {
"component_groups": [
"melee_mode"
]
}
},
"switch_to_ranged": {
"remove": {
"component_groups": [
"melee_mode"
]
},
"add": {
"component_groups": [
"ranged_mode"
]
}
},
"minecraft:on_hurt_event": {
"add": {
"component_groups": [
"mode_switcher"
]
}
}
}
This is not all the code Its just the code that's related to it. Please tell me if you want all of the code.

Answer 1

I finally solved it. Well I guess not solve it because im still not to sure on what the problem was but, what I did was I used the code from the blaze in the Minecraft Beta version. That fixed it the only difference I found was that in the "ranged_mode" the "minecraft:shooter" component was before the "minecraft:behavior_ranged_attack".

Answer 2

You may have been mixing code from multiple format versions like I did before I realized that there was a difference. It could also be possible that you didn't make its attack range large enough, I also didn't see any code that selects a target for it to target. For any attacks to work you will need to make it select a target first. It look like you have only included code that allows it to swap attack types for a selected target. Keep this in mind when making behaviors in the future.