Triumph Books - Ultimate Guide to Mastering Command Blocks!: Minecraft Keys to Unlocking Secret Commands

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There comes a time in every Minecraft players experience when they hit the limit of what can be done with pickaxes, pistons, and the ever faithful Redstone.

After hours of play and designing a world that moves and shakes to the beat of your automated note-block symphony, you might start to pine for a different kind of creative power. A power to give you the freedom to make marvels and pull off effects you might not have ever dreamed of once upon a time.

Enter Minecrafts most powerful block to date.

We call her the command block, and shes the mother of all other blocks before her. With this new addition to the game its possible to upgrade your play styleno more tackling things a block at a time. The power to affect and change your whole world and all the moving parts and mobs in it becomes yours.

Command blocks can be used to summon or kill any mob in the game. You can even name some entities and change how they behave in the world. Want an armored zombie as a body guard to follow you around? Go for it! Want to sit back and watch a giant Wither Boss fight the End Dragon? Well grab some popcorn because its possible!

These blocks have multi-functionality that lets it affect any and all you can think of in your Minecraft game world so long as you have the right command in mind. Well provide a list of commands (its gigantic) and the effects you can achieve depending on which ones you use.

Have you ever wanted a secret door to your base that looks just like the wall surrounding it? Even better have you ever wanted it to open automatically and have it open just for you? How about a security system for your base that can tell when a stranger is invading and turn the entire floor in an area to lava as a security measure? Or perhaps an entire structure summoned with the flick of a switch only to disappear again when that same switch is turned off? All this and more is possible with the use of command blocks and as you can imagine it can be anywhere from the simplest command like giving you an item, to affecting an entire area all at once and completely changing the landscape.

Its even possible to combine the use of more than one command block at a time to create some never before seen Rube Goldberg device to trap or confuse enemies with hilarious results or even just to watch your creation move and unfold before you at the touch of a button.

The list of commands and possibilities for using command blocks isnt endless but it is fairly massive, and while the learning curve isnt as steep as the gigantic list might make you think, its still there. So well start off with the basics, and work our way up to the more advanced commands the command block is capable of performing.

Eventually well lead you into using multiple command blocks at the same time to achieve amazing feats of Minecraft engineering that would be impossible otherwise.

For now, without letting the size be too daunting, we suggest to take this tutorial at a steady and even pace. There isnt a time crunchthis book isnt going anywhere, but learning some of the heavier stuff dealing with command blocks does take a basic understanding of how they work and how to achieve desired results with the right commands. It wont be instant, but by the end of this book you should be very familiar with command blocks and how to use them to suit your plans. So much so that you might even find yourself taking what youve learned and coming up with new ideas that arent even in this book! Thats how many different ways to use command blocks exist, there is such a variety of methods and combinations to use, that this book would be the size of a dictionary if we could add them all!

Saying that, even after reading, we would suggest that it might be a good idea to go out and seek other means of educating yourself on the subject, from watching videos to watching over the shoulder of a more experienced player. Even playing with command blocks yourself with a list of commands in front of you will give you pivotal experience to help you on your way.

The name of the game here is getting you to where you want to be in your understanding of how command blocks work and how to get them working for you. If you decide you need to seek out another resource or two to help with that, then all the power to ya!

Our goal within the pages of this book is to cover as much information as we can on command blocks and the commands they use so you dont lose your way when you try it out for the first time.

For the purposes of this book were going to be looking at command blocks and the commands that you can use with them within the confines of a single player creative world setting. Though most of these commands will be used more often in a multiplayer server, this is because in a server there are more players who cannot use chat based commands compared to those who can. This book will be sequential, as we move forward, each new section will cover material under the assumption you have read the material of the previous sections.