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Hi, right now I am creating a map called The Hybrid Mob Arena, this is not a normal mob arena as it uses mobs stacked on each other to make the map more..... interesting.

http://imgur.com/i3mJ2fW

But for some things I am running into some problems as I don't have too much experience with the /summon command but I am capable of coming up with a few things myself, one of my early problems is trying to spawn a skeleton with a bow riding a creeper, the effect of the creeper drawing towards you and the skeleton shooting at you as you get close seems cool but i cannot pull off the desired effect. I can only manage to summon the skeleton on the creeper but without a bow and cannot find a way too, i am sure there is a simple solution and that someone will help me. This is the command without the skeleton and a bow-
/summon Skeleton 970 47 -660 {Riding:{id:Creeper}}
And trying to get him too hold a bow but not working.
/summon Skeleton 970 47 -660 {Equipment:[{id:261, Riding:{id:Creeper}}
/summon Skeleton 970 47 -660 {Equipment:[{id:261], Riding:{id:Creeper}}

If anyone could please help me that would be appreciated

-DanTheMan83

Sorry off topic, you can spawn mobs riding another mob?! Cool!

On topic I'm not sure sorry, but you could try MC Edit if you'd like and use a filter by someone that does what you want I'm not too sure what its called or how its used. But I too happen to be working on an adventure map and I did some researching for tips and how to make awesome effects.

This may help you, if your willing to use these 3rd party programs. http://hypixel.net/wiki/special/pages I've been using the NBT Explorer and some things are easy to do whilst others not so yet for me. Take a look at it though there are a few good tuts int there. Hope I helped.


This may also help you. http://hypixel.net/wiki/stackedmobs/


Gl
-Bart

Spawning mobs on others is really cool, the problem with mcedit and filters is that I need to make them spawn using the /summon command in the command block which is more reliable then a spawner and takes less time to make also being able to be controlled by redstone, the filters only work to make spawners or to only make 1 copy of the mob, I've been using mcedit a lot because it's a life saver and it takes all the grindiness (if that's even a word) from projects, thanks for the help anyway and I'll be sure to put up a copy of the map once I'm finished it, if it turns out how I imagine it then it'll be awesome. There are such cool things to make like creepers on top of ocelots, ghasts on endermen (I wonder if the ghast would teleport with it?) Skeleton towers with about 10 stacked on each other! How awesome would that be! Anyway thanks for the help.

-DanTheMan83

It sounds like one of those really gruesome horror movies where a serial killer or freak gathers victims and mashes them up together. Hope it turns out well and good luck to you. As for me I'll be working on a tutorial map for the people that have brought minecraft but no little to nothing on what to do. And then back onto my primary objective.

You had unbalanced curly brackets and a space. Never use spaces in nbt tags unless writing a name, or lore. Also, curly brackets and brackets need to match up.

Here is the fixed command

 /summon Skeleton ~ ~1 ~ {Equipment:[{id:261}],Riding:{id:Creeper}} 

Also, please tell us what the error report was in the command block so that we don't have to find the problem from all the other problems possible

Thanks very much Ivya, I have yet to put it in but it seems like it would work. Next time I will put the error report in, I wasn't sure whether to do it but I will. I'm now going to continue my map and also I had a look at your youtube channel, it's pretty good! + 1 subscriber. Thanks once again

-DanTheMan83