Magic Wands: Command Block in Your Hand

Magic Wands: Command Block in Your Hand

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Magic Wands

Command Block in Your Hand

Description

This mod adds a new item: the Magic Wand. The Magic Wand is, for all intents and purposes, a Command Block that you can carry around and activate by right-clicking. Which is super awesome, amirite!?!?!???!1

Currently, the only way to get a working Magic Wand is via the /give command. Example:

/give @p magicwands:item_wand 1 0 {Command:"say hi"}

Use the above command and you will have an amazing Magic Wand which says "hi" when you right click with it -- usefulness truly unparalleled by any other mod. Of course, it can also do anything that any Command Block can do, as far as I'm aware.

By default, the effect will be centered on the wielding player. However, by modifying the UseTargetPos tag, the position of the target will be used instead. Example:

/give @p magicwands:item_wand 1 0 {Command:"summon LightningBolt",UseTargetPos:1b}

Perhaps just a tiny little bit more useful than the previous example, we now have a LIGHTNING WAND to DESTROY YOUR ENEMIES. I haven't tested this (I will soon though!) but you could probably use "kill @e[c=1]" as the command too. ^_^

Unfortunately the chat input length is pretty limiting, so as a workaround, for the moment you could use a Command Block to give yourself a wand.

You can also create a custom recipes (e.g. with MineTweaker3) to give you a particular wand.

One goal of this mod is to make wands safe to give to normal players, so the command will only ever be editable by an OP by default. As such, normal players remain limited to the pre-programmed command.

Future Plans

  • Hijack the Command Block GUI so that you can actually edit the commands easily... =/
  • Make wands able to be limited to a certain number of uses.
  • Add a command (/projectile?) which summons a projectile and flings it in the direction the specified entity is facing (or a direction relative to that direction). This will make fireballs super easy!
  • Create a projectile that executes a command upon impact. Because that is awesome.

Contributing

I look forward to your thoughts and comments. Any bug reports, feature ideas, etc. are greatly appreciated. And please do not hesitate to send pull requests!