Minecraft Command Blocks Review

Peter Wang
2 min readMar 1, 2016

On the Last post I said I want to Learn About Command Blocks in minecraft and now after a few weeks of studying command blocks in minecraft. Today I came back with a lot of learnings. Command blocks can be used, among many other things, to change the difficulty, change the state of the weather, or give you predesignated items. They are particularly useful for the commands that are only available in cheat mode otherwise. You can also create custom Villagers selling whatever you want can be created with command blocks.
e.g.: /summon Villager ~-2 ~0 ~0 {Profession:3,CustomName:BLACKSMITH,CustomNameVisible:0,Offers:{Recipes:[ {maxUses:13,buy:{id:388,Count:5},sell:{id:283,Count:1,tag:{ench:[{id:16,lvl:9},{id:20,lvl:6}],display:{Name:Molten Gold Sword}}}},{maxUses:13,buy:{id:388,Count:1},sell:{id:280,Count:1,tag:{ench:[{id:16,lvl:5}],display:{Name:Whuppin Stick}}}},{maxUses:13,buy:{id:388,Count:2},sell:{id:369,Count:1,tag:{ench:[{id:16,lvl:5},

one of the creations with command blocks

{id:20,lvl:10}],display:{Name:Radioactive Whuppin Stick}}}},]}} .
The part labeled “Buy” is what the villager is accepting as payment, the part that says “sell” is what he’s giving in return. You can change the maxUses to 1000 if you never want the offer to run out, or to 1 if you want to make it a one-of-a-kind item. Note that the first item there (the gold sword) has an out of range enchantment (sharpness 9). Yes this works, but always research what exactly the enchantment does before making an out of range one as some stuff does nothing or even does negative effects (respiration’s “see underwater” side effect makes everything a blinding white at high levels, as if you dove into slush-filled arctic waters). As for that gold sword, keep in mind that gold swords wear out insanely fast (there’s a reason people call them butter swords after all). A level 10 Unbreaking enchantment should bring a gold sword up to a decent durability level. Also notice that the other 2 “weapons” are actually a Stick and a Blaze Rod with weapon enchantments on them. Using any non-weapon as a weapon does the same damage as an empty hand (1 damage, aka half a heart) but the enchantments on these ones make them the equal of an unenchanted sword. Why bother? What’s the advantage? Because unlike weapons, sticks and blaze rods HAVE NO DURABILITY RATING AND WILL NEVER WEAR OUT! The same trick can be used with mobheads and respiration 3 to make an infinite durability scuba mask. So this is a really cool command and yea.

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