Scripting Help

[warm sinew]

I am new to scripting, but I've been making really basic addons for my friend groups realms for many, many years now. Mainly making Unique armors and weapons for them to find through quests or cool locations (I'm pretty much a Story GM for them). Recently, I wanted to upgrade my game by learning Blockbench and Scripting. Blockbench is straight forward, but I have no idea what I'm doing with JavaScript or the Scripting API period.

I mainly use a mobile app (Minecraft Addon's Maker) for everything that I do, because it's easy to use and I've always worked better on my phone than my PC, and usually work on it while I'm out and about. I plan to at some point switch to PC for creating addons however. Sorry if this is a silly question; or because I'm using a mobile APK to make addons. Any and all help is appreciated.

The plan (for now) is to make a custom Spear/Glaive weapon that when used (mid-air / without a chestplate equipped) you will get an elytra, as well as activate the Totem sound and particles. I don't know if that's really advanced, or basic.

I also wanted to make a crossbow that when fired does a Warden sonic boom that fires out in a straight line for about three chunks, but needs a super long reload time (roughly 15 to 35 seconds, depending on balancing I wanna do for it).

My main problem is I have no idea where to start, and looking at tutorials and videos just barely helps me, I usually learn best when it comes to advanced things like this. Again, sorry in advance.

[trail wadi]

what skills in script api do you currently have? are you confident in working with JavaScript?

need an analysis of your skills before i can tell you where to start

because you already have prior experience in creating items and blocks, that part shouldnt be too hard, right?

[warm sinew]

I am confident to get there, but my scripting skills are very mediocre to non-existent. I just have zero clue where to go or how to start, and looking at resources and lists are overwhelming me. I just need to know where to start with specifically what I'm looking for; item/armor scripting. Is there a place to start for that or should I just start from the beginning?

[trail wadi]

so you know how to use javascript right?

you should probably start by exploring every corner of the script api, so you know the capabilities of it. a simple first script could be sending "hello, world" in chat.

you could also figure out how to give players items

and set blocks in the world

some resources that could help you are:

• the official documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/minecraft/creator/?view=minecraft-bedrock-stable
• the bedrock wiki: https://wiki.bedrock.dev/
• another documentation made by someone on this server: https://jaylydev.github.io/scriptapi-docs/

[warm sinew]

I understand the basics of JavaScript.

Most of that, sounds basic, and easy enough, with time. I'll start looking into it using those links.

Thank you.

[trail wadi]

also, one of the most commonly asked questions related to scripting is why this error happens:
[ReferenceError] Native function [something] does not have required privileges

this explains why it happens:
https://jaylydev.github.io/scriptapi-docs/features/script-privileges.html