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Add a /delay or /wait command

It would be very helpful if we had a "/delay" command that you could use to tell the game to skip the specified amount of ticks before moving on to the next command.  This would be extremely useful in the following scenarios:

- Use in a function, along with a circular reference back to the same function, to simulate repeating command block with a tick delay.  
     Example (this_function.mcfunction):  
      tp @s ^ ^ ^10

      delay 40

      function this_function

The above example would tp player 10 blocks forward, wait 40 ticks, then rep

 

- Would give the developer more control over a sequence of commands

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• December 20, 2021 07:26
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  • December 22, 2021 00:35
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  This would definitely be useful for functions, as currently we have to use scoreboards for timing, but outside of functions, you can just use the command block tick delay

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  • December 12, 2022 21:53
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  Not sure about this implementation.

  We have /schedule, but it won't "remember" which player called it, so I would just propose modifying schedule to have an additional field to specify its context