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/damage command should be added

/damage <damage taker> <amount> [type]
/execute as <damage dealer> run damage <damage taker> <amount> [type]

Currently there's no direct, easy and reliable method without side effects to deal a specific amount of damage to an entity. This command will add exactly that with a few advantages:

1. The command would deal a specific amount of damage to a mob in half-hearts, no matter what type of mob it is (undead or alive).
2. The damage will be dealt as if it was by the <damage dealer>, none of the following will have effect if executed by a command block/function. First of all that means that damage dealer's statistic scores will be updated (damage dealt, kill count). Secondly this would affect mobs accordingly: animals will start running around, neutral mobs will be aggroed, etc.
3. [type] will allow to specify the damage type so protective enchantments and other such conditions can take effect, e.g: projectile, explosion, fire, melee, pure (default, will always deal specified amount of damage, no matter the conditions).

There might be other parameters added, like a [true/false] if the command should kill the entity if it's health reaches zero, to imitate a poison effect, but that's inessential.

 

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• November 02, 2018 21:55
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  • December 19, 2018 01:02
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  It would be awesome to make mobs fight each other. =D

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  • December 23, 2018 00:02
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  This is absolutely needed. I do loads of command stuff and this would be amazing to have access to.

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  • April 14, 2019 11:42
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  /effect (player) instantdamage 1 255 true

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  • May 30, 2019 10:06
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  AlexHasNoFace, but the instant_damage effect does not affect aggro, nor undead

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  • August 08, 2019 22:47
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  can negative values be applied for healing?

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  • September 28, 2019 21:22
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  It is kind of diffcult to apply a damage that is without a damage dealer.

  What about this:

  /damage <damage taker> <amount>  [dealer <damage dealer>] [type]

   

  dealer should be nullable.

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  • February 20, 2020 11:28
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  And the oposite /heal ...

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  • May 10, 2020 15:27
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  Perfect idea!
  BUT damage taker may be ommited (@s in that case)
  /damage <amount> [damage taker] [type]
  And the [type] default is physical damage

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  • August 22, 2020 05:45
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  Perhaps also a way to run a `/execute store result damage ...` for score-based damaging so it doesn't end up as obsolete as /attribute did.

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  • February 10, 2021 00:36
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  yeah if there is one, you can display a death message 'playername fell from a high place' instead of 'playername fell out of the world' which is displayed when using /kill command