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A /freeze command

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This command, in my opinion, would be a great addition for creative Minecraft, or building. What the /freeze command would do is freeze literally everything, from the moving textures to all mobs, but only you can move. Other things the command could do is stop the day/night cycle, randomTickSpeed, weather, and mobs spawning.

This could be used if you just wanted a frozen scene with no mobs moving, no crops growing, no rain moving (sort of like a screenshot or photograph).

The command would be as follows: /freeze <seconds> or forever <thing to freeze> or all. An example would be: /freeze 20000 rain, cropGrowth, mobSpawn, textures.

It would also come with a counterpart, a /unfreeze command, which you just type to return everything back to its normal state.

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    Some of the things you listed as things to freeze (weather, crop growth, mob spawning) can already be turned off using gamerules (apart from crop growth if you're in Bedrock edition). I think that this is a better list of things you can freeze:

    • Entities
    • Blocks updating
    • Players (so they can't move or interact with the world, and you should probably also be able to choose which players get frozen)
    • Everything (even things not covered by the other things listed; it's as if the server isn't running at all)

    This is the command syntax that I would suggest:

    freeze (entities|blocks|players|everything) (on|off|toggle) [<duration>] [<affectedEntities>]

    I think that the duration argument should be in game ticks (1/20 of a second) rather than seconds, so we can be more specific about the timing. The affectedEntities argument is only used when freezing entities or players.

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    Why not just incorporate the TickrateChanger mod from modded Java Minecraft? It basically lets you do /freeze and /speed.

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    I'm agree with JochCool it's better freeze entities than the time or in my perspective its better freeze players or other entitie and maybe freeze the camera to make cinematics and the player can't move the camera and body.

    What you think about it?

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    To freeze an entity: /data merge @e[type=creeper,limit=1,sort=nearest] {NoAI:1}

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    For the Mobs I think you could just do /entitydata @e {NoAI:1}

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    I agree with JochCool

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    /freeze enable

    to active the freezing

    &

    /freeze disable

    to remove the freezing

    would be better?

     

     

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    I think instead of the /unfreeze it should be /freeze 0 cropGrowth, mobSpawn, textures

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    I agree but what about if you are doing multiplayer

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    that is big brain

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    ZA WARUDO! TOKI WO TOMARE! :D

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    Captain Kcaz NoAI doesn't exist in bedrock

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    "execute @e[type=!player] ~ ~ ~ tp @e[type=!player] ~ ~ ~". Done.

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    You could add an effect instead. Paralyse.

    /effect [@a/@s/@e/@p/playername] paraslysis [amount.seconds] [strength. (not really needed)]

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    I prefer the NoAI suggestions more...

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    I think it should be /freeze <apply/clear> <entity/player/@letter> <duration> <instantdamage> <showeffect>

    Kind of like the /effect command

    showeffect is to show that freezing effect you see on screen.

    instantdamage is like so do you immediatly start taking damage or does the freeze affect fade in and then you take damage

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    Most of this can already be done with a set of commands involving nogravity, noai, and gamerules you already mentioned. What if instead, there was a /time command that changed the rate at which time moved? (possibly even with negative values???)

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    Yeah and it could be possible to choose the range of the commands effect.

     

     

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    Good for servers

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    I think that you should be able to freeze only part of the world using coordinates like in /fill command and others like it, but in default it should be for all of the world like originally.

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    freeze certain blocks/regions/chunks so they don't update 

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    gosh this would be so helpful when taking thumbnail shots and things like that

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    This could work great for a cinematic shot of a build.

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    I feel like this command may create some problems within the game.

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    This is a great idea because more ideas to your hunted house idea!

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    Im pretty sure you can already do that

    "pretty sure"

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    Can you not set tick speed to zero, which stops things from moving?

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    Maybe also add a way to step a single tick at a time (/freeze step [])