Megan Miller - The Giant Book of Hacks for Minecrafters: A Giant Unofficial Guide Featuring Tips and Tricks Other Guides Wont Teach You

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W elcome to the slightly crazy world of commands and command blocks. With commands, you can do all kinds of things that arent possible in a regular Survival world. You can create a super-powerful zombie or a villager that will trade diamonds for dirt, build towers of emerald blocks, and instantly teleport to any location.

This book will show you how commands work, and it will look at the most popular commands for creating fun creatures and effects, whether playing by yourself or creating a map for others to play. Youll also see how you can use command blocks to create commands that anyone in your multiplayer world can use.

Because commands can very easily be typed incorrectly, Ive created a text document (.txt) that contains the commands referenced in this book. You can download this text document from meganfmiller.com/commands. You can copy and paste the commands from the document into your own command blocks. However, you will need to check each command to see if there are any values you need to change so that the command works in your game and on your server. These are values like XYZ locations (where the command should occur) and player names. For creating your own custom commands, it can often be easiest to use an online command generator, and the addresses to several of these generators are included in this book.

Theres no undo button in Minecraft.

Commands are very powerful, and some can change your world significantly. Remember that theres no undo button in Minecraft. As you are starting to use and understand commands and how they work, use a test world that you wont mind losing if disaster strikes. Ive included instructions for creating a test world in the first chapter.

Lastly, some commands are a little different in varying versions of Minecraft. The commands in this book are created for Minecraft 1.9.

WHAT IS A COMMAND?

A command, in Minecraft and many other computer programs, is a string of very specific words that the software is programmed to react to. Some commands in Minecraft give you items you wouldnt normally get playing a game in Survival mode, so these are sometimes called cheats.

For example, you can use the /xp command to give a player any amount of experience points (XP). Thats pretty cheaty, but in a special mini-game, giving XP can be a great reward to players who have accomplished some specific feat.

There are commands for doing all different types of things in Minecraft. Some commands are used only by an operator, or op, for managing, allowing, and banning players on the server. These commands arent available to use in command blocks. Other commands can only be used on players (like giving them XP) or on blocks (like putting a block at a specific location). There are also commands that affect the whole world, like changing it to nighttime or daytime. Well look at these different types of commands (except for the server management commands) and how to use them in the following chapters.

NOTE: To use commands in a single-player world, you must either be playing in Creative mode or have created your world with cheats on. If you are playing on multiplayer, you must be a server administrator or operator (op).

You use commands in Minecraft in the chat window. For example, to give yourself 30 XP levels, you open the chat window by pressing T. Then type:

/xp 30L

You type in the chat window, at your screens bottom left, to give a command.

This simple command gives whoever types it 30 full levels of XP, enough for the best enchantments!

Other commands are more complicated, and you must include ID numbers or names and codes that reference specific traits or other variables. For example, to create a tame black horse with white spots, a couple blocks away from you and wearing a saddle and diamond armor, you would type:

/summon EntityHorse ~ ~1 ~ {Type:0,Tame:1,
Variant:516,ArmorItem:{id:diamond_horse_
armor},SaddleItem:{id:saddle}}

To summon a tame horse with a specific color, markings, and armor takes a much longer command than granting someone XP.

The next chapter, Command Rules (or Syntax), will look at all the various parts of a command and how you put a command together.

Setting Up a New World

If you are playing and practicing with commands and command blocks, it can be helpful to set up a Superflat Creative world. The Superflat world is... super flat! There are no mountains, ravines, or rivers that can make it difficult to set up special areas or to concentrate on building.

To set up a new single-player Superflat Creative world to use for playing with command blocks:

1. Start Minecraft, or quit your current game, so that you are at the opening Minecraft screen. Choose Singleplayer to open up the Select World screen.