Thanks! I will give it a try soon and let you know!

JB1110Okay...One more thing and then I promise I'm done asking about the flashlight. I've gotten all of that to work and I've managed to add a beacon overhead when you walk to light up the path and make it look more realistic. Now, I need to get rid of the beacon (it doesn't go away when I am not holding the torch, nor when I move away from where I was before, it just creates an endless line of beacons above me). Below is the 9 command blocks I have so far, in order from the start, with space to add a couple more if needed.

I have the standard fill clock and then these, in order:
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Coincidentally, I happen to have made something that does almost exactly this a while back. It originally placed blocks below you, but it should work the same. IIRC it used 2 fills with some replace syntax to change how things are placed in the world, something like this:execute @a ~ ~3 ~ fill ~1 ~1 ~1 ~-1 ~-1 ~-1 air 0 replace beacon 0execute @a[score_HoldTorch_min=1] ~ ~3 ~ fill ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ beacon 0 replace air 0
Basically it places a beacon above you, and then in the next tick clears all the beacons in a small square around your head before placing another one. You can make the square bigger if you need by changing the 1's in the first command to some other number.

Also note that I moved the beacon up from 2 to 3 blocks so that players could jump. I also made the box replacing the beacons a bit big to get rid of any beacons that may move out of range from you jumping. If you need to make it bigger for some reason, just change the 1's in the first command to something else.

Okay...One more thing and then I promise I'm done asking about the flashlight. I've gotten all of that to work and I've managed to add a beacon overhead when you walk to light up the path and make it look more realistic. Now, I need to get rid of the beacon (it doesn't go away when I am not holding the torch, nor when I move away from where I was before, it just creates an endless line of beacons above me). Below is the 9 command blocks I have so far, in order from the start, with space to add a couple more if needed.

I have the standard fill clock and then these, in order:

• /scoreboard objectives add HoldTorch dummy
• /scoreboard players set @a HoldTorch 0
• scoreboard players set @a HoldTorch 1 {SelectedItem: {id:"minecraft:torch",Count:1b,Damage:0s}}
• replaceitem entity @a[score_HoldTorch_min=1] slot.armor.head pumpkin 1 0
• execute @a[score_HoldTorch_min=1] ~ ~ ~ fill ~ ~2 ~ ~ ~2 ~ beacon 0 keep
• Space for next block
• clear @a[score_HoldTorch=0] pumpkin
• effect @a[score_HoldTorch_min=1] clear

It works! Thank you SO MUCH!

Yes, I am using a fill clock. It's kind of the only way to do it, for fastness' sake. I had tried the 3 top commands and gotten the pumpkin on my head, but I couldn't get it off. Your third/fourth command there should help, Thank you! I'll let you know how it goes.

While we're here, lol, I also want to learn how to do things like tp'ing the player and making knocking sounds with particles on doors. I'm sure I'll be able to look it up somewhere, but you guys have been so helpful, I might as well ask here, too!

If you're using a fill clock, then the easy way to remove it is to constantly set the player's score to 0 before all operations take place. For instance, running these 3 commands in sequence should accomplish what you want:
scoreboard players set @a HoldTorch 0
scoreboard players set @a HoldTorch 1 {SelectedItem:{id:"minecraft:torch",Count:1b,Damage:0s}}
replaceitem entity @a[score_HoldTorch_min=1] slot.armor.head pumpkin 1 0
clear @a[score_HoldTorch=0] pumpkin

Each tick the clock will recycle the score, checking to see if the player is still holding the torch. If they aren't, the pumpkin will be removed. If they are, then the player will notice nothing.

Okay. I've got it to detect when I hold the torch and have it replaceitem when its held to add a pumpkin on my head. Now, my issue is getting the pumpkin to come off when I'm not holding the torch. Should that be on the same scoreboard clock, or a different one? Is there a removeitem command (for just the head) that I can use only when I'm NOT holding the torch in my hand? The crazy part is, I've seen this done freaking EVERYWHERE, but no one has a CURRENT, PROPER tutorial. It's a little upsetting, like a best-kept secret or something. And it shouldn't be...

Here's a copy of the code I'm trying. I've tried a couple variations, on the same command block and on one next to it.
/scoreboard players set @a HoldTorch 1 {SelectedItem:replaceitem slot.armor.head minecraft:pumpkin{id:minecraft:torch,Count:1b,Damage:0s}}

What's up with this AddItem thing? It's not something I've ever seen before, either as part of nbt data or as a command. Also I'm not aware of any effect you can put on the player to simulate the pumpkin, short of just putting a pumpkin on their head.

To put it on their head I would use the /replaceitem command. That may have been what you were going for:
replaceitem entity @p slot.armor.head pumpkin 1 0 [data]

Okay, so I got that working and messed around with some more code. My desired outcome would be to ONLY have the pumpkinblur effect when holding the "flashlight", but as of yet I have found nothing that gives me the id/value for that effect. So, I have resorted to adding a pumpkin to the head while holding the flashlight. But now I am getting the error that my data structure is not correct after writing out everything and fixing the parsing/bracket errors. Here is what I've added, and it's all on one command block. When I have them separate, it makes you wear the pumpkin constantly and just plain gives it to you. I don't want that.

testfor @a {SelectedItem:{id:"minecraft:torch",Count:1b,Damage:0s}, AddItem:{entity:slot.armor.head:{id:"minecraft:pumpkin",Count:1b,Damage:0s}}}

Wow, I hooked it up to a clock finally and got the desired result. Thank you for your help! Now to try and tie in the effect and change the look of it, lol.

Ah, small error in what I said above. Of the two command I gave, which one did you try? In the second one I left out a small part which causes it to not work. It should be this:testfor @a {SelectedItem:{id:"minecraft:torch",Count:1b,Damage:0s}}

When I tried that in my own world it seemed to work perfectly.

First off, the 'SelectedItem' tag is not a list, it is simply a single entry. Therefore it gets a curly bracket, rather than a square one (the square brackets comes into play when there is the possibility of there being more than one entry, like in an entire inventory). From there, 'id' is not a separate set of data and so doesn't have any extra brackets. Also, you don't need to define the count and data value of the item with the id tag, simply the item's name. Your command should come out something like this:testfor @a {SelectedItem:{id:"minecraft:torch"}}If you want to add in the count and damage value, you can do so with a couple additional tags:testfor @a {SelectedItem:{id:"minecraft:torch",Count:1,Damage:0}}

Also keep in mind it's often better to try to avoid testfor commands, and put the data you want directly into whatever commands you're running after. How you do that is going depend largely on what it is you want to do with the player.

t3xas- I'd be interested in that, but that is something that would come way after I do my project. I like to try and do one thing at a time, you know? Please check out my Projects and give it a diamond/subscribe to see when it's done and then maybe we can work something out.

idk, since idk how to do that...if you ever do figure out how, PM me so I can use it in my adventure maps! Also, I have six questions of my own...here's the PMC link in the spoiler...



Please do check it out, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 are some normal questions, but #5 is only for you if you can make REALLY AWESOME resource packs!

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