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NoCloud tag

Invisible Creepers are useful when you want to make something explode without using tnt, because you can alter the explosion strength of a Creeper and you can't do it with tnt. However, one annoying thing about doing that is the invisible Creepers will leave an area of effect cloud which is almost impossible to get rid of. So, I had the idea of adding a tag:

 

/summon creeper ~ ~ ~ {NoCloud:1b}

 

Basically, the NoCloud tag if set to 1 will make the Creeper not leave an area of effect cloud if they have a potion effect when they explode, like they normally do. Of course, NoCloud:0b would revert the Creeper back to normal.

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• June 19, 2018 15:16
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  • June 20, 2018 16:33
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  I might be wrong but is it not already possible to disable particles for potion effects?

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  • June 20, 2018 18:32
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  You can disable particle effects in general, but it would affect ALL particle effects, and some particle effects you may want to see.

   

  And besides, even if you did hide the particles, the area of effect cloud would still be there. I think it would be a good idea to have something where you can disable a creeper's ability to leave an area of effect cloud.

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  • June 20, 2018 19:47
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  I played around with this a bit and I approve this request.
  While I can manage to (almost) instantly kill the created cloud, in about 50% of cases there will still spawn a particle or two.
  If spawning a effect cloud is specific behaviour of only creepers the tag should be added to them.

  Additionally it would be nice if there was a "ShowParticles" tag for effectclouds themselves.
  Also effect clouds have the NBT-flag "Particle" which takes in the particle name they generate.
  There should be a way to "pass through" the specified particle from the creeper that generates the cloud. That way one could specify which type of particle the creeper-generated effect cloud should use before it even exists.

  It would also be good to be able to remove the explosion particles created by explosions somehow.