Hi Guys,

Welcome to the PMC official thread for summon, setblock, blockdata, and other commands. Here you can, ask for help with these, and show of your creations with these commands.

These commands are very powerful, but are also fairly complicated. To get you started, I've included links to helpful pages, and some specific info on the setblock command.

Set Block Structure

/setblock x y z block data method dataTag

x y z are the coordinates of the block
Block is the TileID of the block (includes id:0 now!)
Data is the block data (i.e. 5:1 spruce wood)
Method is one of three things: keep, replace, or delete
-Keep spawns the block at the coordinates.
-Replace replaces the block at the coordinates with the block ID.
-Delete removes the block at the coordinates and then spawns the new one in
dataTag is tile entity data.

Links

Here are some very useful links. Thanks to poltercreeper, Spellguard, Myself, sigurd4, and Deathassassin05, for finding them.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1lsesa/how_to_use_the_summon_command/
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1968152-summon-command-in-13w36a/
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Chunk_format#Entity_Format
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Command_NBT_Tags
http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Commands#Data_tags
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1969520-17-using-summon-give-datatags-in-map-making-tutorials/
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/2284813-14w02b-blockdata-e-and-updated-commands/
http://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/command-blog-blockdata-candestroy-and-e/

MCEdit

For those that use MCEdit, here's some great filters that make it much easier:
http://sethbling.com/downloads/mcedit-filters/setblockstructure/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd74GNoA3Yg

Posting

To post your creations, simply copy and paste the whole text of the command, or commands. Then describe what it does. If it is more complex include instructions, and maybe pictures, of how to use it.

Thanks for reading, and I look forward to seeing some pretty cool custom mobs, and other stuff.