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Quote from 111kittycat111»

I'm trying to make a button to teleport players to a debug room where errors in the map can be remedied, but it isn't working. With this command:

/tellraw @a {color:dark_gray,bold:true,text:"[",extra:[{color:red,bold:true,text:"CONFIRM NAVIGATION",hoverEvent:{action:show_text,value:[{text:"Click me to teleport to the debug room",bold:false,color:aqua}]},clickEvent:{action:run_command,value:"/tp @p 206 66 941 "},{color:dark_gray,bold:true,text:"]"}]}

I can't find any problems, but this error pops up:

Invalid json: Expected name at line 1 column 257

PLEASE HELP ME

You didn't close your first extra text completely before opening the next one. I should mention that you've defined the root formatting as "color:dark_gray,bold:true", but repeated that in one of the children. Since the parent already has that, all children will inherit it, meaning you don't need to repeat it (and also allowing you to do a simple quoted string rather than a full component). Fixed command:

/tellraw @a {color:dark_gray,bold:true,text:"[",extra:[{color:red,text:"CONFIRM NAVIGATION",hoverEvent:{action:show_text,value:[{text:"Click me to teleport to the debug room",bold:false,color:aqua}]},clickEvent:{action:run_command,value:"/tp @p 206 66 941 "}},"]"]}

Quote from PrimoSupremeX»

Does no one know how to fix this? It's in a command block.

You do not need to escape the quotation marks at all since no nesting is occurring:

/tellraw @a [{"text":"A ","color":"gold","strikethrough":"true"},{"text":"Herobrine"},{"text":"'s","color":"gold"},{"text":" Guard","color":"black","bold":"true"},{"text":" has been summoned!","color":"gold"}]}"]

Quote from XMCRyukuzaX»

How do I give the player a book that has one line of text saying: Mode 1 (with a click event) and anoother line saying Mode 2 (with a click event)

You can use the line break character "\n" to skip to a new line:

/give @p minecraft:written_book 1 0 {title:"",author:"",pages:["[{text:\"Mode 1\",clickEvent:{action:run_command,value:\"/say Mode 1\"}},\"\n\",{text:\"Mode 2\",clickEvent:{action:run_command,value:\"/say Mode 2\"}}]"]}

Quote from Brinjal66»

Hey there, maybe you mentioned this in the original post and I missed it, and if so, sorry, but I didn't see this written and thought maybe you should mention this useful piece of information about the selector:

The name(s) displayed by the selector are based around the person or command block that executed the tellraw command, not the people receiving it. So if Notch typed:

/tellraw jeb_ ["Hello there, ",{selector:"@p"},"."]

Jeb would receive the message:
Hello there, Notch.
Just seemed like something worth mentioning.

Origins are present for all commands, so it's a fairly spread out topic. For clarity, I can add a section on the end to provide a general idea of how origins in most commands work, as well as signs and books.

Quote from Nukes01»

I thought it could be possible since it can open urls. Maybe with JSON?

Here is my idea. There is a weekly contest to build something and the competition itself would be written on a website or something. That is what the commandblock would read from the website and write out to the chat. Maybe with some extra /give player (given blocks/tools if it is required).

This is well beyond the scope of what is capable in vanilla.

EDIT: I've added an "Origins" section to describe a general usage as well as specific to /tellraw, /title, books, and signs.

Quote from Paderfrik1»

Timer on a command block with:

scoreboard players test @a (Objective) 5

Then a comparator to a new command block with:

title @a title "And the winner is"

and a commandblock next to it with:

title @a subtitle "@a[score_(objective)=5,score_(objective)_min=5]"



Hope it helped!

The "selector" tag must be used, since raw text does not parse player selectors:

/title @a subtitle {selector:"@a[score_OBJECTIVE_min=5]"}

Quote from MrJ0K3R»

@Skylinerw - Can't thank you enough for this! Bookmarked, +1's, & a MUST read for anyone interested in expanding their knowledge about MC's editable entities! The possibilities are endless... well, not quite, but the possibilities are still far beyond the standard "in game editors". So much so, that redstoners, map makers, adventure map creators, & the like, would benefit so much from this invaluable resource. Again, let me brown nose a bit more, thank you sooo much! Kudos, & Diamonds a plenty, for you!

I do keep it updated, yes! If somebody mentions something new I take a look into it and modify the post where needed. Nothing new so far concerning JSON since 1.8's been completed, but hopefully we'll get some goodies in 1.9. The main thing to look out for is JSON support in all displayed string tags, such as "Lore" and "Name" for items, and "CustomName" for entities.

Apologies for the late replies; did not have access to the game until now to properly answer.

Quote from ZamOfDarkness»

So I have a question about the /trigger.

For non-op people, do I have to set up a trigger for them to be able to use click events?
Or is it possible to have a sign with click events (with the commands /tellraw and /setblock) without setting up a trigger?

Using signs will allow you to circumvent the OP requirement, so /trigger will not be necessary for that.

Quote from Maniac1702»

For the colored writing on the signs is there a way you can change the way it is facing because everytime i do the command they are facing north thanks in advance

EDIT: Oh and also how do you add another line of text?

Quote from Grendal27»

I want to add new lines of text too. I saw something on the minecraft wiki with \n makes a new line (Essentially presses enter) but I don't know how to use it.

\n is to be inserted directly into the text:

/tellraw @a {text:"Line1\nLine2"}

Quote from kkraft234»

So right now there is no way to name a zombie with the nearest person's name.

/summon Zombie ~ ~ ~ {CustomName:"{selector:@a}"}

? Thanks in advance

No; the "CustomName" tag does not currently support JSON, though in the future most (if not all) string tags should support it. No idea when that will be, but it will solve that issue if it does get implemented into "CustomName".

Quote from Al_T»

Where did you get the commands.clone.success string?
I would like something like this:
/tellraw @p ["Press",{translate:just.my.example.rightclick}," to use."]

You can find the list of available translations for English in the version jar, under "assets\minecraft\lang".

Quote from sir_baaron»

This tutorial is very awesome and it helped me a lot recently, thanks for all the work you put in it!

Allthoug I have a problem, it semms that you can´t show custom names for items in books via the show_item in hoverEvents :/ It will show the raw json text in the book. Here is the code I used:

hoverEvent:{action:show_item,value:\"{id:minecraft:iron_pickaxe,tag:{display:{Name:\"Rock Miner\"}}\"}

Does anyone have the same problem / know the solution?

You need to further escape the quotation marks. The first \" within the NBT data will close the "value" tag early, causing a syntax error. The formula for figuring out how many backslashes you need is: ([current depth] * 2) + 1

Since you're now at depth 1 (the previous depth being 0), you need 3 backslashes:

hoverEvent:{action:show_item,value:\"{id:minecraft:iron_pickaxe,tag:{display:{Name:\\\"Rock Miner\\\"}}\"}

Quote from XxDuelistGuyxX»

Is there any vanilla way to make subtitles go down lower than usual? I've seen a few Bukkit servers use it to where its over the hotbar, and I think that could be really useful in the future if it is possible.

Not in vanilla unfortunately. The newline character cannot be used in /title.

Quote from Maniac1702»

I tried doing a sign with multiple lines and it didn't work all it did was the top line here is the code

/give @a sign 1 0 {BlockEntityTag:{Text1:"{\"text\":\"\",\"extra\":[{\"text\":\"Hello Welcome\nTo Mini\nGames\",\"color\":\"dark_red\",\"bold\":\"true\"}]}",id:"Sign"}}

Im not sure if im doing it wrong or something but if anyone could help me that would be great

You need to use the Text1, Text2, Text3, and Text4 tags for each line on the sign:

/give @a sign 1 0 {BlockEntityTag:{Text1:"{text:\"Hello Welcome\",color:dark_red,bold:true}",Text2:"{text:\"To Mini\",color:dark_red,bold:true}",Text3:"{text:\"Games\",color:dark_red,bold:true}"}}

You can find the NBT structure for signs themselves here: http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Chunk_format#Block_entity_format