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/gui Command

The mapmaking community currently has a problem very difficult to work around: creating effective GUI interactions for players. Currently, we have a few options including tellraw, books, chests, and dispensers, but the problem with all of these workarounds is that they are all clunky in some way. Either they are complex to implement and require an in-depth knowledge of things like Unicode and json, or they are clunky and hard to use on the player end. A key common theme is that they do not place the player of a map in an intuitive, cursor-based GUI like the rest of Minecraft, where players can add and remove items to and from their inventory, and control with normal keys like Esc to close.

What I propose is this:

A simple command that allows mapmakers to open any Minecraft block or entity GUI, including inventory, enderchest, villager, lectern, etc. The implementation for this would be the command

/gui (open|close) <target> (block|entity)

The block parameter would cause the command to take a loaded position, the entity parameter would take a UUID. This means that even blocks which do not store data (anvils, crafting tables, etc.) would still need to be loaded in the world for the command to work, an alternative to that would be adding an additional parameter that can open any GUI, but that might cause issues with chests etc. The close parameter would close any GUI the targeted player currently has open if left blank, or a specific GUI could be chosen (just like /effect clear).

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    If the developers wanted to take this idea farther, there is the idea of unifying the whole GUI system into a single procedural system (a bit like an HTML doc) but defined by a json file specifying text locations, button locations, item slots, and output slots (like with anvil and crafting table). All laid out in a grid like chests and the player inventory. Obviously, this would be a VERY big change and probably is not possible given the way the game is set up, just a little idea.

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    There is already a post :) https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/community/posts/360062021351--container

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    idea for the syntax of the command :

    gui <selector (only player)> entity|block <block|selector> <x> <y> <z> <open|close>

    (<x> <y> <z> is if the block is in the world and if it's a chest, barrel, furnace... (any block with tile entities)

    with this command we can do the same like invsee command but with any entities and blocks :D

    we can open a gui by a crafting table or other blocks without tile entities too

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    and able to create own gui with Datapacks in json

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    This is such an useful thing for mapcreaters!