Hey there everyone, hoping someone can either confirm my suspicion and suggest an alternative approach or help me correct my mistake.

I am currently working on a data pack what I would like to do is create a damage indicator that shows after hitting a mob when the player is holding a particular item in their offhand. I had planned on doing this via a custom advancement using the player_hurt_entity trigger and a scoreboard set up to track minecraft.custom:minecraft.damage_dealt. Everything seems to work properly expect the damage number that displays is incorrect.

After loads of testing I think the issue is that the damage_dealt statistic is updated after the player_hurt_entity trigger is set off. So when the code runs I am always displaying the previous damage dealt and not the current. The only thing I could think of doing is running the display function as @s after the advancement has already completed and the statistic is updated but I can't think of how to do that automatically without the player triggering some other action. I tried using a different scoreboard and an 'execute if' statement in the tick function but I couldn't get anything to work as @s (which I assume is because there is no entity executing the function). Below is some of my code to try and help clarify a little.

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated!

load.json { "values": [ "DataPackName:load" ] }

load.mcfunction scoreboard objectives add damagetracker minecraft.custom:minecraft.damage_dealt scoreboard players set @a damagetracker 0 execute as @a run setblock -17 -62 -21 oak_sign{front_text:{color:"red",has_glowing_text:1b,messages:['[{"text":"Damage ","color":"red"},{"score":{"name":"@p","objective":"damagetracker"}}]','{"text":""}','{"text":""}','{"text":""}']}} replace

damage_indicator.json ``` { "criteria": { "name": { "trigger": "minecraft:player_hurt_entity", "conditions": { "entity": { "offhand":{ "item":"minecraft:carrot" }

            }
        }
    }
},
"rewards": {
    "function": "DataPackName:display_damage_dealt"
}

} ```

display_damage_dealt.mcfunction tag @s add this summon item ^ ^1.5 ^2 {CustomNameVisible:1b,Age:5990,PickupDelay:100,Motion:[0.05,0.3,0.05],Tags:["new"],CustomName:'{"text":"null"}',Item:{id:"minecraft:stone_button",Count:1b}} data merge block -17 -62 -21 {front_text:{color:"red",has_glowing_text:1b,messages:['[{"text":"Damage "},{"score":{"name":"@p","objective":"damagetracker"},"color":"red"}]','{"text":""}','{"text":""}','{"text":""}']}} data modify entity @e[type=item,tag=new,limit=1] CustomName set from block -17 -62 -21 front_text.messages[0] tag @e[type=item,tag=new] remove new tag @s remove this scoreboard players reset @s damagetracker advancement revoke @s only DataPackName:damage_indicator