Minecraft Print Entity Data

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Rather than fussing around - is there a way to print out the XYZ of the nearest entity? Something like "print coord of @e [type=villager,distance=0.40]" - where it prints either the closest match, or all entities found.

There isn't really a way to print out the current state of these properties to the chat. The best you can do is gather an entity's NBT data and print that out to the chat, which you can do by doing /entitydata @e[] {}. You use a target selector to find which entity to get NBT data from, and the empty {} means that no data will actually be.

entitydata Arguments [edit source] entity Specifies the entity or entities to be modified. Must be an entity UUID or the @e target selector. dataTag Specifies the data tag elements to be added to, or overwrite elements of, the specified entity (data tags cannot be removed and strings cannot be set to a null value).

How to Use the Data Command in Minecraft This Minecraft tutorial explains how to use the /data command with screenshots and step-by-step instructions. You can use the /data command to get, merge and remove NBT tags (formerly called data tags) for entities and block entities.

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This Minecraft tutorial explains how to use the /entitydata command with screenshots and step-by-step instructions. You can change the data tag for an entity using the /entitydata command in Minecraft.

Modifies the data tag of an entity. entitydata entity Specifies the entity or entities to be modified. Must be an entity UUID or the @e target selector. dataTag Specifies the data tag elements to be added to, or overwrite elements of, the specified entity (data tags cannot be removed and strings cannot be set to a null value). Must be a compound NBT tag (for example.

entitydata Arguments [edit source] entity Specifies the entity or entities to be modified. Must be an entity UUID or the @e target selector. dataTag Specifies the data tag elements to be added to, or overwrite elements of, the specified entity (data tags cannot be removed and strings cannot be set to a null value).

The /data command allows the user to get, merge, modify, and remove NBT data of a block entity, entity, or Command NBT storage. There are four instructions for /data (get, merge, modify, remove), and the targets/sources referenced by each instruction command may be either block.

I'm trying to print some block data to the chat with /tell, /say, or /tellraw, but I can't figure out how to get the data from one command to the other. The exact scenario is that I have a lectern with a book on it, and I want to print whatever text is on the book's first page to the chat. I can get the data with /data get block ~1 ~ ~ Book.tag.pages[0] but I can't figure out how to get the.

There isn't really a way to print out the current state of these properties to the chat. The best you can do is gather an entity's NBT data and print that out to the chat, which you can do by doing /entitydata @e[] {}. You use a target selector to find which entity to get NBT data from, and the empty {} means that no data will actually be.

Rather than fussing around - is there a way to print out the XYZ of the nearest entity? Something like "print coord of @e [type=villager,distance=0.40]" - where it prints either the closest match, or all entities found.

To help debugging I thought it'd be a good idea to constantly print the home/workplace information of the closest villager, which is found in the Brain tag of the NBT data. So I wrote the following command: /data get entity @e[type=minecraft:villager,limit=1,sort=nearest] Brain And it works great.