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Colored messages w/ command blocks [CB TUTORIALS]

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COLORED MESSAGES w/ COMMAND BLOCKS

A lot of people use /tell or /say to message a player, however, these commands are very limited. You can't colorize them, bold them or do any special effects with them. So, via command blocks, you can colorize, bold, underline etc. your messages! Follow the tutorial to know how!

Step 1: Place a command block
Place the command block wherever you want it to be

Step 2: Adress the message
Type /tellraw into the command block, after a space, use @a, @p, @r, or a name. Visit my spell tutorial on how to adress it to certain groups/teams

Step 3: Define your message
Before entering your text, you first need to know what you want to type and how you want it to look like, options are:

- Colors: black, dark_blue, dark_green, dark_aqua, dark_red, dark_purple, gold, gray, dark_gray, blue, green, aqua, red, light_purple, yellow, white
- Effects: bold, italic, underlined, strikethrough, obfuscated

Step 4: Entering your text
Type the following command in the command block if you want simple text without the @a in front of it: /tellraw #1 {"text":"#2"}

#1 : Who you want to adress your message to
#2 : Your text

Type the following text into a command block if you only want to add a color to it:/tellraw #1 {"text":"#2","color":#3}

#1 : Who you want to adress your message to
#2 : Your text
#3 : Your color (only 1!), listed above

Type the following text into a command block if you want only an effect:/tellraw #1 {"text":"#2","#3":"true"}

#1 : Who you want to adress your message to
#2 : Your text
#3 : Your effect, listed above

Type the following text into a command block if you want multiple effects:/tellraw #1 {"text":"#2","#3":"true","#3":"true","#3":"true","#3":"true"}

#1 : Who you want to adress your message to
#2 : Your text
#3 : Your effect, listed above
So basically just repeat ,"#3":"true" as much effects you want to have

Type the following text into a command block if you want colors and (multiple) effects: /tellraw #1 {"text":"#2","color":"#3","#4","true"}

#1 : Who you want to adress your message to
#2 : Your text
#3 : Your color (only 1!), listed above
#4 : Your effect, listed above
Of course you can have multiple effects as well, just do the same as above

Next update: Only parts of text coloured!
Map will be added in the future
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05/11/2017 6:38 pm
Level 29 : Expert Mage
11thShadowDragon
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Awesome! I'm doing a large amount of minigames on a friend's exclusive free-op server, so the color names were very handy for my tellraw shenanigans XD
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01/11/2015 9:21 pm
Level 21 : Expert Modder
EdMaxPrime
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To have different colors in your text use this command(helps if you know JSON)

/tellraw {text:"", extra:[{text:"hello", color:white}, {text:" world", color:green}]
For those who know JSON, extra is just an array of objects.

Source: https://wiki.mcnext.net/index.php?title=Command_Blocks
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09/29/2014 7:16 am
Level 1 : New Miner
jake221002
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lol i tried it, but it crashed my game!
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09/19/2014 4:44 pm
Level 7 : Apprentice Engineer
sanderkebolleke
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WHY THIS NOT WORK?

/testfor @a {color:blue,text:"text",extra:[{color:gold,text:"2"}]
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08/18/2014 9:35 am
Level 6 : Apprentice Miner
Porkchop900
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how do i do testfor in it like when i walk on some cords it says the text one
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01/25/2015 5:10 am
Level 10 : Journeyman Taco
Blockmaster1o1
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for that you need 2 things:
Firstly a clock + command block that tests the coords
Secondly a command block that says the text
Do a basic redstone clock and connect a commandblock to it and write this command: /testfor @p <x> <y> <z>
Then attach a comparator and a command block to the comparator and write: /tellraw @p <text>

I suppose that should work
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08/08/2014 10:17 am
Level 7 : Apprentice Engineer
sanderkebolleke
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i Know it, you can color books, copy and paste this in a minecraft book:
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§r§00 §11 §22 §33
§44 §55 §66 §77
§88 §99 §aa §bb
§cc §dd §ee §ff

§r§0k §kMinecraft
§rl §lMinecraft
§rm §mMinecraft
§rn §nMinecraft
§ro §oMinecraft
§rr §rMinecraft
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06/17/2014 8:51 pm
Level 55 : Grandmaster Architect
Zwil
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I found this to be helpful but one part of the guide wasn't working for me until I found the problem.

Type the following text into a command block if you want colors and (multiple) effects: /tellraw #1 {"text":"#2","color":"#3","#4","true"} 

there is a comma instead of a colen before  "true"}.

I acctually struggled with this for a while until I found it, to avoid others having the same problem I thought I should tell you so the error can be fixed.
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06/14/2014 9:17 pm
Level 33 : Artisan Creeper Hugger
Ommetaphobia
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OMG thx!!!! I wanted to make a battle dome map! Thx!! :DD Huge help!
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04/22/2014 4:13 pm
Level 7 : Apprentice Explorer
foen
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:P One last Comment: It Says A Unknowen Erro Happend
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