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Ranges in the /scoreboard command - an easier way to generate random numbers

Hi!

 

I'm proposing the addition of ranges (ie 1..5 for numbers between 1 and 5) to be used in the /scoreboard command. For example, /scoreboard players set @s test 1..5 would set my "test" score to a number between 1 and 5.

 

This would be super useful to players wishing to deal with random numbers. The current method is weird, and hard to understand for new people who want to make datapacks.

 

Gone would be the days of using a loot table to generate a random amount of items, then storing the number of items in a scoreboard!

 

This would apply to

• /scoreboard players set
• /scoreboard players add

 

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• January 10, 2020 05:19
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  CivetKitty commented

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  • January 14, 2020 08:15
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  Yes, we need an official randomizer. 

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  LogicCyclops commented

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  • February 08, 2020 12:01
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  It would make more sense to have it be 1?5 instead of 1..5 in order to avoid confusion. Also, why just stop there with scoreboard commands when that can be implemented with other commands?

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  Mince rafter1 commented

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  • February 08, 2020 15:24
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  This is already a feature on Bedrock, meaning it will most likely be added to Java edition anyway sometime in the future. Besides that, Java already has tons of ways to do randomization, including the new option through predicates (the days of using loot tables and various items are already gone). So it's honestly not even necessary and won't be much of an issue if it doesn't come to Java.

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  Luggibumm commented

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  • February 10, 2020 23:21
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  I would find it more usefull if the range could be choosen using other scoreboard players!

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  LogicCyclops commented

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  • February 11, 2020 03:03
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  @ Mince Rafter 1, Well the point of them adding that would be to make things a lot more intuitive. Not adding that because we can technically already do randomization through more difficult means is like saying Mojang shouldn't add functions into Minecraft all because we can already make stuff with command blocks. It's just best if they scrap scoreboard random and replace it with the scoreboard ranges that this person is proposing. Remember command stats? Guess what? The original way of doing command stats was replaced with a better method in 1.13+. So replacing scoreboard random with ranges would be an excellent and far better idea.

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  Plagiatus commented

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  • February 12, 2020 09:23
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  Yes, Bedrock Parity in this regard would be really nice. The current ways of doing it are not very straight forward.

  And I guess allowing for a "?" syntax or something similar in other commands like give etc would be really nice, but having a random number generator in the first place would already be a good step.

  @Luggibumm: You can still do that using a little bit of math afterwards, so just allowing us to use fixed values is good enough.

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  super kitten98 commented

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  • March 02, 2020 21:24
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  It would be awesome to have a random number generator built into the game! Lots of uses!

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  BlushfulCafe527 commented

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  • March 25, 2020 09:26
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  Great idea

   

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  Dylan Jones commented

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  • May 22, 2020 02:05
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  The only question I have is how do players add a seed to the random function? Could the 1?5 syntax add a set of parenthesis with a generator’s name, the seed being set with another function (i.e. /random set some_generator 12345) so the syntax could be 1?5(some_generator)