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I'm trying to use /execute as @p{distance=..3] run give minecraft:minecart, but every time I do that it uses my gamertag as the command block name despite the fact that I renamed the block. The only way I can think of to fix this is using a testfor command with one block and a repeater into a named command block with the give command, but of course testfor has been removed. It'd also be nice to figure out how to use /execute to only send out a redstone signal when detecting players. That way I could do things like detect a certain player in a radius, have a repeated coming out of that block, and connect it to a trail of redstone so I could remotely open an iron door without buttons, levers, pressure plates, etc.

Quote from silverjcrypts»

I'm trying to use /execute as @p{distance=..3] run give minecraft:minecart, but every time I do that it uses my gamertag as the command block name despite the fact that I renamed the block. The only way I can think of to fix this is using a testfor command with one block and a repeater into a named command block with the give command, but of course testfor has been removed. It'd also be nice to figure out how to use /execute to only send out a redstone signal when detecting players. That way I could do things like detect a certain player in a radius, have a repeated coming out of that block, and connect it to a trail of redstone so I could remotely open an iron door without buttons, levers, pressure plates, etc.

It's a little bit (actually, not a little bit...) unclear what you're trying to do.

Is your objective opening an iron door when a player gets nearby? Or do you just want us to fix a faulty command?

To test for players use:

/execute if entity @a[distance=..3]

and it will work just like /testfor

Quote from Megacrafter107»

To test for players use:

/execute if entity @a[distance=..3]

and it will work just like /testfor

In addition to this, you would need to have a command to run at the end. So if you only wanted to test you could do the following:

/execute if entity @a[distance=..3] run help

This works because the /help command does nothing when run by a command block.

Edit: After testing this I found that this isn't the case. The original command is correct.

You don't need anything at the end, if there is no command at the end, it will only output a signal