How to make my data pack configurable?

[dry fern]

I made quite a simple data pack that will ban a player from a server if they die outside a 200 by 200 block area centered around 0,0. I want the data pack to be more configurable however, where people can change the location where the area is centered around by using a command in game. I also would like to be able to easily change how big the safe zone is, however this is not as important. Does anyone know how to do this?

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[mossy raft]

Please don't just throw your data pack at us

Simplest way to make it configurable would be to have some kind of setup command that spawns a marker entity, and have the 200x200 area centered on that entity instead of a static coordinate. The command could first kill all existing markers with that tag before summoning the new one, allowing it to be moved

You could probably theoretically make it configurable with macros instead, but the performance trade-off should be negligible

[dry fern]

This was my original method, however using the r target selector leads to issues such as the area being a circle instead of a rectangle, which isn’t a huge deal but I am making this data pack for my friend and he told me he really did not want it to be a circle. It also leads to issues if you go to high up

[mossy raft]

r? That target selector arguments hasn't existed in years

Assuming you're working in any recent version, you can use the dx dy and dz target selector arguments to make a cuboid volume area rather than a circle

[pine gorge]

summon marker with the tag "kill_center", then execute at @e[type=marker,tag=kill_center] positioned ~-200 ~-300 ~-200 run kill @a[dx=400,dy=6000,dz=400]

[mossy raft]

Don't do this

[pine gorge]

🥺

[pine gorge]

What's the issue? maybe I can improve it

[mossy raft]

It kills all players in a 400 block cube around the marker

[pine gorge]

yeah

oh he wanted 200

Then do this

summon marker with the tag "kill_center", then execute at @e[type=marker,tag=kill_center] positioned ~-100 ~-300 ~-100 run ban @a[dx=200,dy=6000,dz=200]

[mossy raft]

No...

He doesn't want to kill people within the designated area

Its great to see people helping in the help channels, but please make absolutely certain you are providing relevant information that solves the user's problem. If you aren't sure, it's okay to sit it out.

[pine gorge]

Sorry, i changed it to ban

[mossy raft]

That's still not what they want

And also not what they're asking for.

You're not contributing anything to this thread, I have to respectfully ask you to step away

[dry fern]

This is what I did. However I’m not sure how to allow for easy customization in game with this set up. Also I’m sorry for my mistake with r, I was doing some commands on bedrock, I was actually referring to the distance argument

[mossy raft]

I guess I don't understand what else you'd want to customize.

[dry fern]

The issue is the coordinates are hardcoded into the data pack right now, and I want to create an easy command so people can change where the area is centered around, which I have found difficult due to Minecraft’s lack of variables except in the case of scoreboards which don’t work in this case

[mossy raft]

Ok, well I did describe how to change the centerpoint.

But if you want to change the radius then you'll have to use macros

[dry fern]

I didn’t think that would work because it relys on using the distance argument which I can’t use due to reasons described above

[mossy raft]

It doesn't rely on using the distance argument... As I said, you can use dx dy and dz.

[dusty idol]

Distance = real/vector distance
Dx = distance on x-axis
Dy = distance on y-axis
Dz = distance on z-axis

An entity that stands on the same block as you do along the x-axis would be: @n[dx=0.5] this could be some entity below or above you, or beside you.

@e[dx=5,dy=5,dz=5] would be a cube extending 5 blocks from the position it runs at (10x10x10)
@e[distance=5] would be a sphere that fits in the above cube, the corners of the cube however fall outside of this sphere.

[dry fern]

Intresting