How to make a arrow explode from a specific named bow

[flat citrus]

Hello there, i am a really beginner scripter, basically just finished the datapack blog and i was just trying to challange myself. How can i make the arrow explode from a specific named bow? i dont want them to explode from every shot arrow
this is my code for context

execute as @e[type=arrow,nbt={inGround:1b }] at @s run summon tnt
execute as @e[type=arrow,nbt={inGround:1b}] at @s run kill @s

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[thorn panther]

I'm pretty sure @hybrid breach has a tutorial on exactly this, hang on

[hexed willow]

oh sorry didnt know what the summon helpers button meant

[thorn panther]

You're fine, you didn't press it

We get pinged when threads are created; it's what we're here for!

[hexed willow]

is it on youtube or on a forum

[thorn panther]

I don't actually know, I just know they've mentioned it

Trying to hunt it down for you

[hexed willow]

lol thanks

[thorn panther]

Oh it's literally the how to make a data pack blog, was that the one you said you read?
https://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/how-to-create-a-minecraft-data-pack/

[hexed willow]

oh really

i really am blind

[primal lodge]

it's actually not accessible anywhere in this server

[thorn panther]

Well it looks like the blog just goes as far as you've got

[primal lodge]

tho it should be in /resources

[primal lodge]

yeah it's the one

[hexed willow]

where is it though?

[primal lodge]

rune talked abt it earlier and sent the same link

[primal lodge]

^^^

[thorn panther]

It sounds like you have the explosions down, but now you want to make it only work for specific bows, is that correct?

[hexed willow]

yeah that is correct

[thorn panther]

Gotcha, so to do that, you'll need to create that specific bow. You can give it a custom name, but what's more important/easier to work with is it's custom data. What Minecraft version are you developing in?

[hexed willow]

prettu sure 1.20.4

ill check

yep

1.20.4

[thorn panther]

OK, so then you can do a command like this
/give @s bow{exploding_bow:1b}

Then, you'll follow these steps:

1. Run a command in your tick function as and at all players holding that bow, that adds a tag to all nearby arrows, such as exploding_arrow
2. Change the commands you currently have that run as and at all arrows, to also check if they have that exploding_arrow tag.

There are small things you can do in a couple different ways for both of these steps, and it's not a detailed tutorial, just explaining what the steps are

[hexed willow]

OK, thanks ill try to add the nbt tag and then test for it. How do i add the tag exploding_arow to the arrow?

[thorn panther]

With the tag command 🙂

[coarse owl]

📜 /tag

tag <targets> add <name>

Adds a tag to the targets.

tag <targets> list

Lists all tags on the targets.

tag <targets> remove <name>

Removes a tag from the targets.

[hexed willow]

ill try to do it and then ill ask if i get stuck

[flat citrus]

execute as <player> at @s run tag @e[type=arrow,distance=0..10] add exploding_arrow

[hexed willow]

thank you

Hey! i was coding and this is what i have made :

execute as @a[nbt={SelectedItem:{id:"minecraft:bow", tag:{display:{Name:'{"text": "Boom Bow"}'}}},}] run tag @e[type=arrow,distance=..10] add exploding_arrow

execute as @e[type=arrow,nbt={inGround:1b,item:{tag:{exploding_arrow:1b}}}] at @s run summon tnt

execute as @e[type=arrow,nbt={inGround:1b,item:{tag:{exploding_arrow:1b}}}] at @s run kill @s

and it doesnt seem to work. Doesnt explode with named bow neither with unnamed

also how do u add the mcfunction syntax to the code

[primal lodge]

```mcf
<code>
```

[hexed willow]

oh ty

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[primal lodge]

I see

it's not the item tag you have to check

it's the entity tag

[flat citrus]

kill @e[type=arrow,tag=exploding_arrow,nbt={inGround:1b}]

[primal lodge]

(idk if inGround is correct)

[hexed willow]

It has to be

It was working before

[primal lodge]

well then

yeah

[primal lodge]

do this

idk I feel it should be OnGround but if it worked before sure

[hexed willow]

I mean i will fix that but the tnt isnt spawning at all

[primal lodge]

maybe it's specifically for arrows

[hexed willow]

Could the problem be that i didnt say where it should run?

[primal lodge]

no, you did say at @s

[hexed willow]

Not at the first line

so can anybody help?

[flat citrus]

execute as @a[nbt={SelectedItem:{id:"minecraft:bow", tag:{display:{Name:'{"text": "Boom Bow"}'}}},}] at @s run tag @e[type=arrow,distance=..10] add exploding_arrow
execute as @e[type=arrow,nbt={inGround:1b,item:{tag:{exploding_arrow:1b}}}] at @s run summon tnt
execute as @e[type=arrow,nbt={inGround:1b,item:{tag:{exploding_arrow:1b}}}] at @s run kill @s

[winter onyx]

inground is for arrows, onground is for regular entities

[winter onyx]

why dont you just follow this guide from scratch

[hexed willow]

i finished the guide

i have said what i wanted to do at the top

^^^

[winter onyx]

ohh only for specific bow

[winter onyx]

is that the tick function?

[hexed willow]

yep loop.mcfunction

which is valued as tick

in tick.json

[winter onyx]

ew, is that what the blog on datapack hub pmc had?

[hexed willow]

what exactly ;D

[winter onyx]

the tick function, obviously

ok nevermind

[winter onyx]

so lets have a complete rewrite, ok? its pretty small and simple anyways

[hexed willow]

alright no problem

[winter onyx]

ok so the sequence of actions should go like

1. check when player shoot from a bow
2. check if that bow is special
3. make the arrow go boom

[hexed willow]

ooh

so this whole time i was doing it wrong

[winter onyx]

well sort of, yeah

[hexed willow]

pretty sad

[winter onyx]

now if you just erase alll the code you have in tick and load functions (i assume you dont have any other functions, right? )

[hexed willow]

riiiight

i do have the function where it gives the bow

[winter onyx]

can you just paste it in here

[hexed willow]

ok ill just paste everything

[winter onyx]

so i can see whats inside

so erase everything except the give function ig

we'll start from blank tick and load functions

[flat citrus]

load.mcfunction

tellraw @a {"text": "My code is big fat load", "color": "#0000FF"}

loop.mcfunction

i erased everything

test.mcfuntion

give @s bow{display:{Name:'{"text": "Boom Bow"}'}}

tick.mcf
nothing

[winter onyx]

dahel is tick.mcf

[hexed willow]

same as loop

[winter onyx]

why would you have two loops

[hexed willow]

no idea bro

[winter onyx]

nah remove one of them ok

[hexed willow]

i was lazy to delete it ig

alright ill write the code in tick.mcf

cause its the same as loop

[winter onyx]

also what version are you on?

[hexed willow]

1.20.4

[winter onyx]

ok thats nice

[flat citrus]

give @s bow{display:{Name:'{"text": "Boom Bow"}'}, boombow:1b}

[winter onyx]

first i want you to add this little custom data in the give function

[hexed willow]

the mcf highlight doesnt work on me :(

alright done

[flat citrus]

now in the load function we should create a new scoreboard, should be like this

scoreboard objectives add shoot_bow used:bow

[hexed willow]

oh no

[winter onyx]

what

[hexed willow]

i dont know anything about scoreboards

should i just learn that instead?

[winter onyx]

its ok tbh, you could first write the code and then try to understand it (thats how i got into datapacking fr)

[hexed willow]

alright

pasted btw

[winter onyx]

im gonna explain it really briefly, when you shoot from a bow this scoreboard will increment for the player who used the bow, thats how we know you shot an arrow

[flat citrus]

so now in tick function you go
tick

execute as @a if score @s shoot_bow matches 1.. at @s run namespace:shoot_bow

[winter onyx]

this will check if a player has one or more points in the shoot_bow scoreboard, which would mean he shot an arrow

[hexed willow]

namespace shootbow is red forsamreaosn

[winter onyx]

so we made the fisrt one, now we know when player shot from a bow, next we should check if the bow was special

[winter onyx]

yeah because you have to use your actual namespace

[hexed willow]

oh

it is called shoot_bow tho

[winter onyx]

what is

[hexed willow]

the scoreboard objective

that we added

[winter onyx]

yeah

namespace is a folder under the data folder

ownera

so you shoudl call instead function ownera:shoot_bow

[hexed willow]

OH

[winter onyx]

yeah

[hexed willow]

i was changing the shoot_bow to ownera 🤦‍♂️

is this something i gotta worry about?

[winter onyx]

not at all

its good

[hexed willow]

alright

[winter onyx]

ok now that im thinking about it, we should implement the 2nd punct in this exact command lol

[hexed willow]

which is

[winter onyx]

just add if data entity @s SelectedItem.tag.boombow before the run keyword in the execute command you just pasted

[winter onyx]

in this command

you there

[hexed willow]

like this?

[winter onyx]

yes!

ok now in ownera/functions/ create a shoot_bow.mcfunction

[hexed willow]

alright

done

[winter onyx]

so we done first, we done second, the only part thats left is to make the arrow go boom

[hexed willow]

yess

but why stop there

create a nuke and bombard the whole serrver

[flat citrus]

in the shoot_bow function type this

execute as @e[type=arrow, distance=..2, limit=1, sort=nearest] run tag @s add boom_arrow

[winter onyx]

that will put a tag on the arrow that was shoot from the specific boom bow

[hexed willow]

what does sort-nearest do

[winter onyx]

it basically gives a tag to one arrow that is within 2 blocks and the nearest / closest to the player

[hexed willow]

oh

nice

[flat citrus]

if we put tag on it, we can track the arrow later on, so now go back to tick function, and go

execute as @e[type=arrow,tag=boom_arrow,nbt={inGround:1b}] at @s run function ownera:boom

and this will track arrow that was shot from our boombow, and if the arrow got stuck in a block then we run the boom function, now in boom function you go
boom

summon tnt
kill

[winter onyx]

next step, save all files, type /reload in game, give yourself a brand new bow via the give function AGAIN, then pray and hopefully everything works first try

[hexed willow]

i dont have a boom function lol

[winter onyx]

yeah.. thats why you should create it

[hexed willow]

makes sense

[winter onyx]

just like the last time, in ownera/functions add boom.mcfunction

[hexed willow]

ooop

it dont worke

[winter onyx]

so

what happens

[hexed willow]

nothing

ill send the mcfs

boom.mcf

summon tnt
kill

load.mcf

tellraw @a {"text": "My code is big fat load", "color": "#0000FF"}

scoreboard objectives add shoot_bow used:bow

shoot.mcf

execute as @e[type=arrow, distance=..2, limit=1, sort=nearest] run tag @s add boom_arrow

test.mcf

give @s bow{display:{Name:'{"text": "Boom Bow"}'}, boombow:1b}

tick.msf

execute as @a if score @s shoot_bow matches 1.. at @s if data entity @s SelectedItem.tag.boombow run function ownera:shoot_bow
execute as @e[type=arrow,tag=boom_arrow,nbt={inGround:1b}] at @s run function ownera:boom

[winter onyx]

uh okay

are you sure you gave yourself the bow via the function again? because we changed that function

[hexed willow]

oh

i gave myself the bow but it still doenst work 🤔

[winter onyx]

oh, thats weird, what comes up when you type /data get entity @s SelectedItem.tag in chat while holding the special bow

[winter onyx]

oooh i think i know what happened

[hexed willow]

im listerin

[winter onyx]

basically, in shoot.mcf add this on a new line: scoreboard players reset @s shoot_bow, so that it resets itself

and also change SelectedItem.tag.boombow in the tick function to SelectedItem.tag{boombow:1b}

[hexed willow]

where exactly do i add those

in the code

[winter onyx]

does that seem more clear

[hexed willow]

yes

well

it

is

not

working

i seriously drained you today

i think i should learn to do something easier

[winter onyx]

fudge no we invested too much time in this lets put this to end, can you put say hello on a new line in shoot.mcf and then send all the mcfs

we're almost there

[hexed willow]

ok

nothing when i shoot the bow

oh send all mcfs

ownera:shoot made it say hello

ownera:boom made me die in creative

[winter onyx]

WAIT REALLY?

ok thats cool

ok thats

[hexed willow]

the bow is too powerful to be made

[winter onyx]

impossible

[hexed willow]

wel

i guess

it is

[winter onyx]

you cant die because the function can only be ran from arrow... lol

[hexed willow]

i ran it myself

[winter onyx]

oh, ok

why

ok so if you just shoot the bow, nothing happens, right?

[hexed willow]

yep

[winter onyx]

what if you just run
execute if data entity @s SelectedItem.tag{boombow:1b} in chat while holding the special bow

[hexed willow]

ill try

Test passed

[winter onyx]

smiley face

[hexed willow]

count : 1

[winter onyx]

OOHHHHHH

I GET IT NOW

give me a moment

[hexed willow]

i already gave this challanage 2.5 hours i have nothing to lose 🫡

[winter onyx]

how many hours?

whoaaaaaa

[hexed willow]

havent even been alive for that long

[winter onyx]

can you just send all of the functions in here in discord

[hexed willow]

alright

boom

summon tnt
kill

load

tellraw @a {"text": "My code is big fat load", "color": "#0000FF"}

scoreboard objectives add shoot_bow used:bow

shoot

execute as @e[type=arrow, distance=..2, limit=1, sort=nearest] run tag @s add boom_arrow
scoreboard players reset @s shoot_bow
say hello

test
give @s bow{display:{Name:'{"text": "Boom Bow"}'}, boombow:1b}

tick
execute as @a if score @s shoot_bow matches 1.. at @s if data entity @s SelectedItem.tag{boombow:1b} run function ownera:shoot_bow
execute as @e[type=arrow,tag=boom_arrow,nbt={inGround:1b}] at @s run function ownera:boom

[winter onyx]

alright

ill try to debug it myself ig

[hexed willow]

not me doing my angular project while doing this 🗿

[winter onyx]

lol

[winter onyx]

hold on, did you call this function shoot_bow or just shoot

[hexed willow]

shoot

oh no

IOT WORLS

IT WORKS

but it doesnt kill creative players :>

jk

but thank you bro

we've been doing this for 2 hours now

or 1.5

eah 1.6

1.5

hours

damn

i can finally close this case

[winter onyx]

BRUHHHHHH

wait

also

to understand scoreboards, heres a good video on it!
https://youtu.be/-5EmWJguggA

now you can close it

[hexed willow]

thank you

salute

[winter onyx]

happy coding ig, pay more attention to everything please, naming a function differetn name is crazy lol

[gray sorrel]

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[hexed willow]

2.5 hours 😭

[gray sorrel]

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[hexed willow]

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