Development Assistance Custom NPCs

I am looking to create a custom NPC that can move, attack, sprint and switch items in hand. I done a little bit of research on google but everything is outdated. Anyone got any ideas?

 

Citizens 2 is maintained (also available for spigot 1.8) and offers a decent API for developers to extend. Surprised you didn't came across it.

 

Thanks, just downloaded and added the version 1.7.4 (My server version) to my build path and to my server plugins. Any ideas what is wrong with this? Am I using an outdated version or something? I got this error...

Code:

org.bukkit.command.CommandException: Unhandled exception executing command 'p' i
n plugin PotionPVP v1.0
        at org.bukkit.command.PluginCommand.execute(PluginCommand.java:46) ~[spi
got.jar:git-Spigot-1571]
        at org.bukkit.command.SimpleCommandMap.dispatch(SimpleCommandMap.java:18
1) ~[spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1571]
        at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R4.CraftServer.dispatchCommand(CraftServe
r.java:767) ~[spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1571]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R4.PlayerConnection.handleCommand(PlayerCon
nection.java:1010) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1571]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R4.PlayerConnection.a(PlayerConnection.java
:847) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1571]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R4.PacketPlayInChat.a(PacketPlayInChat.java
:28) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1571]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R4.PacketPlayInChat.handle(PacketPlayInChat
.java:65) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1571]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R4.NetworkManager.a(NetworkManager.java:184
) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1571]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R4.ServerConnection.c(ServerConnection.java
:81) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1571]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R4.MinecraftServer.v(MinecraftServer.java:7
31) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1571]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R4.DedicatedServer.v(DedicatedServer.java:2
89) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1571]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R4.MinecraftServer.u(MinecraftServer.java:5
84) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1571]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R4.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java
:490) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1571]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R4.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:6
28) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1571]
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/citizensnpcs/api/CitizensAPI
        at minecraft.pot.serverbot.BotManager.SpawnNPC(BotManager.java:16) ~[?:?
]
        at minecraft.pot.commands.Ping.onCommand(Ping.java:26) ~[?:?]
        at org.bukkit.command.PluginCommand.execute(PluginCommand.java:44) ~[spi
got.jar:git-Spigot-1571]
        ... 13 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: net.citizensnpcs.api.CitizensAPI
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.8.0_25]
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.8.0_25]
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) ~[?:1.8.0_
25]
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.8.0_25]
        at org.bukkit.plugin.java.PluginClassLoader.findClass(PluginClassLoader.
java:98) ~[spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1571]
        at org.bukkit.plugin.java.PluginClassLoader.findClass(PluginClassLoader.
java:83) ~[spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1571]
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.8.0_25]
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.8.0_25]
        at minecraft.pot.serverbot.BotManager.SpawnNPC(BotManager.java:16) ~[?:?
]
        at minecraft.pot.commands.Ping.onCommand(Ping.java:26) ~[?:?]
        at org.bukkit.command.PluginCommand.execute(PluginCommand.java:44) ~[spi
got.jar:git-Spigot-1571]
        ... 13 more

This is my current code...

Code:

    public void SpawnNPC(String name, Location l, Entity e) {
        NPCRegistry registry = CitizensAPI.getNPCRegistry(); // Line 16
        NPC npc = registry.createNPC(EntityType.PLAYER, name);
        npc.spawn(l);
        npc.getNavigator().setTarget(e, true);
}

 

Make sure you have the same Citizens plugin version in your server as you do in your build path, and make sure Citezens is successfully loading. (Depend on it in your plugin.yml)

 

@SuperOriginal
Yes it is and yes I have already done that.

 

@benzimmer123 You didn't

Code:

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/citizensnpcs/api/CitizensAPI

 

@Konato_K
This right?

Code:

depend: [Citizens]

EDIT: Both my plugin in my build path and in the server must be the same version as the build path uses the actual plugin as the jar file.