Right click detection

[upbeat current]

What is the current best right click detection method, in the past I know carrot on a stick was the only and best option realistically,

I know there’s food, and interaction entities as alternatives. I want to make a datapack with a lot of different items that have abilities on them, so I just wanted to know what the best option is as of right now.

Please @ me with a reply so I can see it thank you 🤍

[edgy yoke]

@upbeat current

The consumable component is generally gonna be the best for most usecases

[upbeat current]

Thank you for the reply, I started off with that but got super confused 😭 but I’ll try again and watch a tutorial..

[torpid nimbus]

@upbeat current There have been a lot of additions to the consumable component that make it even better, such as the ability to enable sprinting and change or get rid of the speed penalty when using the item :)

Another good option is goat horns and the instrument component, since you can cause it to go on cooldown upon being used and, with a bit of clever coding, make it run something only once at the beginning

[upbeat current]

Thank you for the suggestion- a bit of a side note quick question I want to check a players main hand item has a specific custom tag, what’s the formatting for that? I tried @s[nbt={CustomItsm=true}] unfortunately it didn’t work I’ve forgotten how to do it properly..

Is the instrument component applicable to any item like the consumable component or is it locked to goat horns also..

[torpid nimbus]

You can use execute if items to check if the player has an item in their weapon.mainhand slot

If you don't want to check for a specific item type but you want to check components, you can use *[<components>]

Also if you're checking for a specific custom data tag, here's a useful tip! If you use a ~ instead of a =, it will make the command check for the presence of that tag rather than demanding an exact match of the data you put in. I would always recommend you use it... for example: custom_data~{tag1:{tag2:1b}} will check if the item has a field called tag1 containing tag2 which is set to true, and won't care about any of the other data in it

[torpid nimbus]

Unfortunately, instrument is limited to goat horns :(

[upbeat current]

I’m hoping mojang will let every item be able to use it

[upbeat current]

I made an item for example with {click_check:1b,spell:1b} as custom data however when I try to use the command to just check for the spell:1b component it doesn’t want to work 👀

I did

execute if items entity @s weapon.mainhand *[minecraft:custom_data={spell:1b}] run say yap

However it didn’t work, should change the :1b to be a =true or am I making an error

Oh I fixed it by including the click_check1b first

[torpid nimbus]

Try using minecraft:custom_data~{spell:1b}

That way, it doesn't matter if there's other data such as click_check:1b as well ^w^

[upbeat current]

Thank you so much, it worked great!

I really appreciate you helping me