Ive been working on this datapack for over a month

[young hemlock]

I Thought I was finally done but i apparently did something wrong because it doesnt show in minecraft when i add it the focus was to give every player 3 random items in the game every minute

[muted tulip]

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[lusty mulch]

do you have a pack.mcmeta? if so, what are it's contents?

[young hemlock]

pacl mcmeta?

the contents are

Void_unriv

inside that is data

inside that is Random items

Inside that is advancements and functions

inside advancements is triggers which reads as {
"criteria": {
"trigger": {
"trigger": "minecraft:tick"
}
},
"rewards": {
"function": "random_items:give_items"
}
}

that is my function folder

[lusty mulch]

i need the pack.mcmeta file that is in the root project of your datapack

[young hemlock]

there is no pack mcmeta

[lusty mulch]

thats the issue

look here under "contents https://minecraft.wiki/w/Data_pack

[young hemlock]

Ok i added it but it still doesnt show up for me

I cant figure it out

[muted tulip]

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[terse tree]

have ya checked the logs?

[young hemlock]

Logs?

How?

[olive holly]

:information_source: Default Launcher Logs

The logs are where Minecraft displays errors when something goes wrong and can thus help you gain information about why something isn't working for you!
To open the logs:

1. Enable logs in the Minecraft Launcher
2. Start your game (or restart it if you already have an open instance)
3. Enjoy spotting errors getting much easier!

[terse tree]

;-;

that yeah

[young hemlock]

Oh ok let me check

Im very new to this 😅

[molten mulch]

You can't use capital letters

the foldere names all have ccapital letters

spaces are also not valid

[muted tulip]

Quick Look

Void_unriv/data/Random Items/select_item.mcfunction.txt:

scoreboard players set @a[distance=..30, scores={random_items=1..}] selected_items 0

execute as @a[distance=..30, scores={random_items=1..}] run scoreboard players add @a[distance=..10, scores={random_items=1..}] selected_items 1

[young hemlock]

Missing metadata in pack file/Void_unriv (4).zip

[terse tree]

oh yeah

[molten mulch]

your pack.mcmeta is a txt file

[young hemlock]

Oh

[terse tree]

and so are all the other files

[young hemlock]

how do i fix that

[terse tree]

one sec

[young hemlock]

I feel stupid now o_o lol

[terse tree]

nah it’s fine

Using a coding app like visual studio code won’t have this problem

[young hemlock]

I use np++

;-;

[terse tree]

fair enough

just make sure you turn on that setting so that you can see the actual file name extensions in the file explorer

but yeah you need to make sure that all files and folders have no spaces, no capital letters, and aren’t .txt

then you should be good to go

[young hemlock]

Missing metadata in pack file/Void_unriv (5).zip 😵‍💫

Now im confused

[muted tulip]

Quick Look

Void_unriv/data/Random Items/Functions/give_selected_items.mcfunction.mcfunction:

execute as @a[distance=..30, scores={random_items=3, selected_items=3}] run function random_items:give_selected_item

[molten mulch]

#1193304263556870244 message

[young hemlock]

What do i do with this?

copy and paste?

[terse tree]

that’s just a viewer so we can look in the zip you sent without needing to download it ourselves

[young hemlock]

Ohhhh

Ok

I appreciate all the help guys this is for a friend who is trying to make his first youtube video

Just wanted to say thank you 😄

[terse tree]

no problem :)

[molten mulch]

That's what we're here for

[young hemlock]

lmk if you find the problem 😭

[terse tree]

the problem is this lol

[young hemlock]

Really I thought i fixed it

[terse tree]

now its .mcfunction.mcfunction

also, rename the folder Random Items to random_items

[young hemlock]

does the zip need to be lowercased too?

it still says missing metadata

[terse tree]

can you screenshot this line?

[terse tree]

you can ignore that

btw the file doesnt need to be zipped

in fact it shouldnt be

[young hemlock]

Oh

well damn lmao give me one moment

[terse tree]

it should be world/datapacks/<the datapack>/data

<the datapack> can in theory be a zip, but you ziped it so the zip contains a folder, and that folder contains data and pack.mcmeta

you would have to zip it so inside the zip is just data and pack.mcmeta, not a folder which contains those two

[young hemlock]

Ok the pack is on now

[terse tree]

does it show up if you run /datapack list enabled?

[young hemlock]

but i dont think it works 😭

[terse tree]

mhm

lets have a look

[young hemlock]

its supposed to give every player 3 random items every minute

the idea was spawning on one piece of bedrock and then every player tries to survive with 3 items every minute

[terse tree]

hmm

oh i see

two of your functions aren't in the functions folder

these four

all functions need to be in functions folder otherwise Minecraft doesnt bother reading them

[young hemlock]

???

oh so all of them

all 4?

[terse tree]

yeah

[young hemlock]

ok ok appreciate it

and then reload?

or make a new world

[terse tree]

just reload

[young hemlock]

it still apears to not do as planned.

appears*

[terse tree]

is there any red text in the logs?

[young hemlock]

Nope

Did I mess up the actual code 😭

[terse tree]

Might have done :P

If you just want to give them 3 completely random items you can do that with a loot table

[young hemlock]

...How???

Lmao is it simpler

because if so I feel wasted 💀

Lmao

[terse tree]

Bit simpler. You'd need to generate a loot table which gives a random item from a list of items, because youd be there forever if you did it by hand

but then you just need to run /loot give @s loot random_item:whatever to get a random item

[young hemlock]

So how would I go about pulling this off? and at the point just redo the pack?

[terse tree]

do you just want to give all players 3 random items every minute? or is there more to it

[young hemlock]

Nope thats it

[terse tree]

welp

you'd only need two functions

[young hemlock]

My only goal LMAO

;-;

oj

ok

[terse tree]

one which does the giving of items, and one which tells the other one to run every minute

[young hemlock]

so i can remove the trigger json?

[terse tree]

yeah

you can remove everything except init.mcfunction, because you only need that to tell the other function to run

[young hemlock]

AHH

NO

I alr deleted it

Can i undo

[terse tree]

just create it again

now i dont suppose you'd know how to generate a loot table very easily right

[young hemlock]

scoreboard objectives add timed_items dummy
scoreboard objectives add random_items dummy

[young hemlock]

Youd be right 😮

[terse tree]

ill do it for ya

[young hemlock]

😄

Yipee!

tysm

[terse tree]

ok i did it for ya

this is the code lol

[young hemlock]

Just curious for future refrences

was there a source for this or did you already make it?

because that was fast 😮

[terse tree]

I wrote a very short program just then to generate it myself. I got a list of all the items from a library by HeDeAn

[young hemlock]

Woah sounds badass man one day I hope to be as good as that

[terse tree]

if you want the code, here it is

now to use that

[terse tree]

just copy and paste this in data/random_item/loot_tables/random.json

(Discord hides most of the file so make sure you download it, open it, and copy it all from there)

[young hemlock]

Ok gotcha

Wait i dont put it in functions?

intresting

theres so much to learn lmao

[terse tree]

no, this is a loot table

bit different

[young hemlock]

I love this

so much fun

[terse tree]

indeed

a loot table is basically a file which you can use to generate a set of items

you can actually change the amount of items it generates by changing this line at the top. I suggest you change 1 to 3

lmk when you're done because im kinda overwhelming you with information right now lol

[young hemlock]

Ok lmao

And what about the timed what do I do for that?

Im such a noob :<

[terse tree]

nah its fine

this is the easy part

you need to create another mcfunction file (in the functions folder), call this something like every_minute.mcfunction

in this function we want to give all players the 3 items, then tell Minecraft to run itself again in one minute

[young hemlock]

Ok mmhmm

[terse tree]

so when the function is run for the first time it creates a loop

loot give @a loot random_item:random
schedule function random_item:every_minute 60s```

that's the commands you'll want

[young hemlock]

is that it 😮

[terse tree]

for this function yes

in init.mcfunction all you need is function random_item:every_minute

[young hemlock]

ok gotcha

I did it

[terse tree]

then the final thing

is to make init.mcfunction run when you /reload

so every time you /reload it will start the loop

[young hemlock]

Ohhh Ok

[terse tree]

you can do this by creating a file in data/minecraft/tags/functions/load.json, and putting this in it:json { "values":[ "random_items:init" ] }

then you should be finally done

[young hemlock]

data/minecraft/tags/functions/load.json???

How do I find this

[terse tree]

you need to create those folders

data should already exist

[young hemlock]

oh ok

[terse tree]

(data should contain random_items already)

in data create the minecraft folder, in the minecraft folder create the tags folder, in the tags folder create the functions folder, in the functions folder create load.json and put that code i sent in it

[young hemlock]

Ok gotcha

and just curious

[terse tree]

sure

[young hemlock]

is there a way to add a custom command so it runs init when typed /start lucky_void

Just curious

if that was possible and easy to do

[terse tree]

You can't add custom commands with datapacks. The closest we have is /trigger start or /function random_items:start

But right now it starts automatically when you run /reload

[young hemlock]

Oh ok

so all he has to do is /reload

[terse tree]

yep

[young hemlock]

Well I really really appreciate it

[terse tree]

make sure you test it first to make sure it works

[young hemlock]

Ok

all I need to do is /reload or do i need function init

[terse tree]

just reload

/reload should run the init function automatically because of the load.json thingy we just added

[young hemlock]

Oh I dont think it is working 😦

[muted tulip]

Quick Look

Void_unriv/data/random_items/functions/init.mcfunction:

function random_item:every_minute```

[terse tree]

oh thats my bad

i said to put random_item instead of random_items

in every_minute.mcfunction

change that and it should be fine

[young hemlock]

oh so just add a s

[terse tree]

and also in init.mcfunction

yeah

[young hemlock]

ok

it doesnt appear to auto give every 60s like you had tried to make

it does give the items now thou 😄

[terse tree]

send the new zip rq

[young hemlock]

Ok give me one sex

sec

[muted tulip]

Quick Look

Void_unriv/data/random_items/functions/init.mcfunction:

function random_items:every_minute```

[lusty mulch]

urle 2

[terse tree]

it should run every minute hmm

maybe change 60s to 5s just so you can test it

[young hemlock]

k

Ignore this C:\Users\PC\AppData\Local\Temp\mcworld-13896809138572996272

that works

maybe 59 seconds would work

[terse tree]

try it

change to 59s

then /reload

it'll update automaticaly

[young hemlock]

Wait

so do I just change the original file

how do I get it back into mc

[terse tree]

just /reload

well

[young hemlock]

Ive been making a new world

[terse tree]

lol you dont need to do that

[young hemlock]

and re adding the new folder

;-;

[terse tree]

just put the folder in one world and edit the folder

[young hemlock]

how do I find the world ;-;

[terse tree]

in minecraft, click on world -> edit -> open world folder

[young hemlock]

It works yipeee

let me wait another minute

just to double check

IT WORKS

Tysm

I really really appreciate it and if I ever get good at this ill apply to this server

I will try to become a professional :>

[terse tree]

practise makes perfect :)

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