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Damage Command

For having command block-driven attacks do certain amounts of damage, our traditional methods are kind of weak. We can give the instant damage effect, but that’s in multiples of 4, and doesn’t work for undead. There’s not an easy way to do a single point of damage, especially if armor is worn. The damage command would be formatted like this:
/damage #
The deathnote parameter is optional, and if left out, the targets death message (if shown) will be “was killed by magic.”

Example: Having the command “/damage @r 2” will do two damage to a random player- if they die their death message will be “MCPlayer111 was killed by magic”.

Example: If a command block had the command “/damage @r 2 “was killed by a falling meteor!””, a random player would take one heart of damage, and if they die, their death message would be “MCPlayer111 was killed by a falling meteor!”.

If a command block executes it from a player or a player runs the command themselves, they will take credit for the kill in stats (killedBy and playerKillCount), and can also have their name be in the death message. “/damage @r 8 “was killed by “,@s,”’s Meteor!” (Or JSON formatting, which would make a lot more sense, I just won’t type it out :) ) run from a player would make the target’s death message “MCPlayer111 was killed by CommandExpertz’s Meteor!”

Essentially, it’s easy to use, and beneficial to the command community!

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    Alternatively, we can summon arrows in front of entities with a custom damage. That will leave an arrow in the player model, but we can edit that out too with resource packs.

    /execute at <target> rotated ~ 0 run summon arrow ^ ^2.3 ^0.1 {damage:1.0d,Motion:[0.0,-1.0,0.0]}

    That doesn't change the fact we're limited in the ways we can damage entities, though. A proper way to deal specific amounts of damage would be great.

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    I agree, but there should also be an NBT tag for any entity that is called "DeathMessageText" when a player is killed, it would use this as a death message name instead of "Zombie" or "BlueFalconHD's wolf".

    Example:

    /summon zombie{DeathMessageText:["",{"text":"[","color":"gold"},{"text":"LEVEL","bold":true,"underlined":true,"color":"green"},{"text":" ","bold":true,"color":"green"},{"text":"1","bold":true,"underlined":true,"color":"green"},{"text":"] ","color":"gold"},{"text":"- ","color":"dark_purple"},{"text":"Zombie","color":"aqua"}]}

    Would result in this message:

     

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    I don't understand why they don't do it ... It's realy simple. And they should modify the way that we can't affect PlayersDATA so we could heal or damage a certain amount of HP.

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    As a complement to this syntax for /health command, I propose the following syntax which hopefully makes sense

    /damage <targetEntity> <damageType>... (following sub-commands are mutually exclusive)
    	...value <value>... (Following sub-commands are optional and are NOT mutually exclusive)
    		...source <sourceEntity>
    		...message <JsonMessage>
    	...from <scoreEntity> <scoreObjective>... (Following sub-commands are optional and are NOT mutually exclusive)
    		...source <sourceEntity>
    		...message <JsonMessage>

    Explanation

    • damageType takes a value from a predefined list and takes armor and enchants into consideration for calculation accordingly and also produces appropriate death message, possible values can be: physical, projectile, fire, explosion, magic, fall damage
    • if source is provided, then the game should behave as if that entity had dealt the damage. example: It should update scoreboard values like damage dealt and kills (if the target dies) accordingly. It should also use this to produce an appropriate death message
    • If message is provided, the json message provided will be the death message instead, if the json message is left blank (or is an empty json structure, whichever is easy to implement), no death message is produced
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    honestly, this should have been in the base game since the introduction of commands.

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    This would really help, this way we don't have to use some extremely complicated and ineffective method to cause damage to a player, also potions go through Armor so potions wouldn't work very well.

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    I would also include the possibility to choose whether armor and toughness should be took into consideration

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    Support this comment https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/community/posts/360042645571/comments/4403878700429 
    BUT
    Entity Target = who execute command
    So we can execute it as other entity, and by dealing 0 damage to mob we can trigger this mob aggression towards enity, which execute command :)
    So this cover /aggro command suggestion too)
    (https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/community/posts/360060660591-New-command-aggro-aggravates-a-hostile-mob-towards-another-mob-or-player )


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    In the damage command should also offer an option instead of the gamerukes too turn off dmg from all or ONLY invidual players on order to stop people getting some kinds of dmg cause what they are doing in a datapack while still dealing dmg to others

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    You can already do this by using the

    /attribute @s minecraft:generic.max_health base set <number of half-hearts>

    Then updating the actual health of the player using instant health, and then using again the attribute command to set the max health back to 20 (or whatever value it had before)

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    I like this idea, but there should also be the type of damage it gives out. (Poison, wither, magic, generic, thorns)

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    they have this on bedrock

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    They have finally added it!