Setup M4TCHBOX

[burnt pumice]

I want to a m4tchbox server with my friends , if u have no idea what matchbox is it's a youtube serie about murder mystery, 7 players spawns with no nametags and with random names and each player is assigned with a role

Spark - he has the abillity to right click a player with open hand and that player is marked after round finishes the marked player dies , also he has abillity to swap places with random player by pressing G
Doctor - he has abillity to save someone using right click with open hand that player is protected the entire round

I need help making the spark role and doctor i already made name tags not showing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmwAJjVQRNc

[left quarry]

Hi, I think I could help, but first, you can't bind keys with DataPacks, but you can use the CommandKeys mod and the activation with the /trigger command.

But if I am right you can check if the player right clicking using the minecraft:interaction entity

[burnt pumice]

I really need your help I've been trying make this work for 5 hours now i made nametags not showing but i don't think you can use datapacks to make right click detection and swap

can you like explain how can i make it this work?

[left quarry]

You can

[burnt pumice]

How?

[left quarry]

I never did right click detection, but I tried to make players swap

[left quarry]

Also, didn't you say that players just have random names, and not just have no names

Because you can do that too

[burnt pumice]

how?

plugin i think?

[left quarry]

You can give each player custom armor stand

Which will be small

[last raven]

If you're gonna do that just use a text display

[left quarry]

Oh

[last raven]

You seem to be quite outdated on techniques

[left quarry]

Yea

[left quarry]

Kinda

[burnt pumice]

I think this only detect right clicking but i want to mark a player that means right clicking someone with open hand

[left quarry]

I never really used text display

[last raven]

Is there a specific reason it needs to be an open hand and not just like a magnifying glass item?

[left quarry]

Yes

[burnt pumice]

cuz if it's open hand it's really hard to know if ur marked or no

in matchbox they use open hand

[left quarry]

BUT

[last raven]

That doesn't make sense

[last raven]

Then they may not be using data packs

As a data pack server, we can advise on data pack solutions

[left quarry]

U can use item that has the item component custom_model of air

[burnt pumice]

but how can i detect if i right click a player

[left quarry]

.

[burnt pumice]

I used carrot on a stick but still it dosen't work

[last raven]

You detect if the item was right clicked, and have that run a raycast to see if the user is looking at a player

And then have it execute something as that player

[burnt pumice]

that's kinda complicated 😭

[last raven]

Welcome to data packs

[left quarry]

Yea...

[last raven]

It's really not that bad though

[left quarry]

It's interesting

[burnt pumice]

how can i make raycasting?

# function matchbox:spark_mark
execute as @a[scores={role=1}] at @s run scoreboard players set @e[type=player,distance=..3,sort=nearest,limit=1] marked 1
execute as @a[scores={role=1}] at @s run tellraw @s {"text":"You marked a player!","color":"red"}

does this work??

[burnt pumice]

i made this can u check it ?

(it's made with AI btw)

[burnt pumice]

😭

so that means i can't make this work

[last raven]

That's not true, you just need to do the work yourself

[burnt pumice]

i have no idea on how to make this work

[last raven]

Fortunately that's what this server is for

[burnt pumice]

I want to ask you on helping me make this but i don't want to waste ur time

[last raven]

We're here specifically to help, and are happy to do so. What we we're not here to do is make the pack for you; you need to make an effort, and ask for help when you get stuck

[burnt pumice]

alright ty for help

[last raven]

You've been directed to several resources now to do the things you want to do, so I recommend looking at them, and getting started trying to implement them into your pack. If it doesn't work, then you can show your work here and we can help pinpoint why and tell you what to change

[burnt pumice]

one question what do u use to code datapacks

visual studio code?

[left quarry]

@burnt pumice if you want you can use any item with item component custom_model and model of air, and with the component food or consumable (I don't know on what MC version you are), and then make an advancement that activates when you are consuming that specific item, and as "reward" for the advancement function that revokes that advancement, gives you that item, and gives tag to player that is in the direction you're looking using ^ ^ ^1 and you just give the tag you want to the player that is there (if you have there a player)

[left quarry]

Yes

If you want

[left quarry]

That's just the method I know

[left quarry]

Also the custom_model component exists only in 1.21.4+

[burnt pumice]

could u atleast make a simple code to make the mark working?

because i can't seem to understand raycasting

[left quarry]

I could try

[burnt pumice]

could u please do it

[left quarry]

Look, I don't know when i could do it because I need to learn a lot in the next few months

[burnt pumice]

all good

[left quarry]

But I can try tomorrow

[burnt pumice]

wait can i use mod to make this work?

[left quarry]

What exactly?

[burnt pumice]

all the matchbox system

swapping marking protecting voting

[left quarry]

I think yes

But I don't know modding

It's DataPacks server

[ocean glacier]

You can do most of this with datapacks, but it's quite complex and keybinds are unfortunately off the table unless you get really, really creative ^^