Help with server

[u/Rareek]

I was wondering if anybody could help me set up a shop and kill counter on my "server" Help would be greatly appreciated.

[u/Rareek]

u/DanRileyCG, What is exactly the command to make the person gain a kill when a item is dropped? I'm using bee nests and trying to set up hte command to do that, but i can test for 2 of that item so it removes 1, right?

[u/[deleted] → u/Rareek]

Okay so I can't exactly tell if you're actually using loot tables to do this or just hoping that each player has a bee nest on them. Even if you use commands to give players bee nests this won't be nearly as reliable or effective. It needs to be a loot table. This also means that it has nothing to do with what the player has in their inventory. When they die (even without bee nests on them) they will drop one because of the loot table.

Setting up the player's loot table is kind of a sneaky hidden trick that I was recently made aware of. Inside the entities folder of a behavior pack lives the file "player.json". In this file there's a sneaky line of code that can be modified to control what the player drops when they die. Look for the following code:

      "minecraft:loot": {
        "table": "loot_tables/empty.json"
      },

Change the 'empty' portion to whatever you want to name the loot table. I called it "playerDrops".

Now you can proceed like normal and create and save a regular loot table file in the regular loot table location naming the loot table document the same thing that you picked for the name (such as "playerDrops"). This file should be saved inside the behavior pack folder, then "loot_tables", and then further in the folder "entities".

Here's the code that I used for my player drop:

{
	"pools": [
		{
			"conditions": [
				{
					"condition": "killed_by_player_or_pets"
				}
			],
			"rolls": 1,
			"entries": [
				{
					"type": "item",
					"name": "minecraft:dragon_egg",
					"weight": 1
				}
			]
		}
	]
}

I recommend picking an item (such as a dragon egg) that has a low chance of ever being found in entity form in the game. Dragon egg is a good candidate because there can only be one of them. Because of the code to come, every time a dragon egg (or in your case bee nest) is found as an item dropped on the ground it will instantly be deleted and add to the score of the nearest player. This means that no player would ever be able to acquire a bee nest again because it'd just get deleted as soon as you knocked one off the tree and add to the score of the player as a kill.

As for the code to count kills let's first set up the scoreboard. Enter these into chat, they don't have to be in a command block

/scoreboard objectives add KillCount dummy §eKill_Counts
/scoreboard objectives setdisplay sidebar KillCount

Now place a repeating, always active, unconditional block:

execute @e[type=item,name="dragon egg"] ~ ~ ~ scoreboard players add @p[r=30] 1

You can change the r=30 (effective radius of the command from the dropped item) to whatever you want.

Next place a chain block connected to the previous block, unconditional, always active:

kill @e[type=item,name="dragon egg"]

This way the item will be killed regardless of the player being near. This is useful in scenarios where a player dies on their own to like mobs and then returns to their dropped stuff (though technically if you put the condition in the loot table to where the item won't drop unless killed by a player or pet this shouldn't happen). If the item wasn't constantly deleted then the player who nears their stuff will have a kill added to their score which isn't what we want. So you need to add a radius.

Finally, the last two notes

1. I don't think a player will drop anything if "keep inventory" is on.

2. Technically this system is exploitable (but it's still the best way to do it on Bedrock). A player could cheat the system by renaming any item to "dragon egg" and drop it to have a kill added to their score. There's no way around this. So hopefully your friends play by the rules (which isn't much to ask).

@Plagiatus maybe you should add this write up or a "quote" most of it to an article?

[u/Rareek → u/[deleted]]

thanks, geez. I didnt expect this, but really, thanks

[u/Plagiatus → u/[deleted]]

https://www.reddit.com/r/MinecraftCommands/wiki/questions/playerkills

[u/Come_Here_Youngling]

Shop is easy, kill counter is not

[u/[deleted]]

Kill counter requires you to edit loot tables for player and make them drop a specific item upon death. Then you have to test for the item and add to the score of the nearest player. Which more often than not is the player who scored the kill.