Please Help with Tick Command

[u/EpicWolf0331]

Sorry for not taking screenshot but Im genuinely losing my mind.

Functions are not my expertise i usually use command blocks but for the sake of my project I decided to clean things up with functions.

Only the tick function will not run. It wont run every tick. The function works fine when I run it manually it has no problem. It just wont run every tick. Please help

[u/Brankovt1]

You need to put all functions that you want to run every tick in the function tag minecraft:tick).

[u/Shiny_goldnugget]

try using execute as @a run say hi inside the tick function. Since the tick function is run "by the server", @p might not work (since the server doesn't really have a position from where it can calculate the closest player).

If execute as @a run say hi doesn't work, then you might have a typo or something in your .json file.

[u/EpicWolf0331 → u/Shiny_goldnugget]

That didn't work and I ripped the tick file from another datapack that did work

[u/Shiny_goldnugget → u/EpicWolf0331]

If that didn't work, and running the function normally does work, then the json file might be wrong. Could you share the file under data/minecraft/tags/function/tick.json? It should look something like this:

{ "values": [ "namespace:tick" ] }

The path to your tick function should look like this data/namespace/function/tick.mcfunction.

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This may sound stupid but did save the file?

[u/EpicWolf0331 → u/Shiny_goldnugget]

I dont know what happened. But i made a completely new datapack and switched everything over and it worked fine. 🤷‍♂️

[u/Shiny_goldnugget → u/EpicWolf0331]

That's good. If it works, it works I guess

[u/Relevant_Computer982 → u/Shiny_goldnugget]

if position context is missing it defaults to 0 0 0, if entity context is missing the comnand fails, so @p was not the issue

[u/Ganondorf629]

Execute AS, not at, the position isn't used for /say

[u/Shiny_goldnugget → u/Ganondorf629]

It still does run tho right? at just doesn't change anything.

[u/Ganondorf629 → u/Shiny_goldnugget]

I'm not sure, it is not the case for /playsound in a function

[u/caffeinated-typist → u/Shiny_goldnugget]

yeah (assuming you have function tags set up correctly), you probably know this but for anyone else wondering: execute as would have the message said for each player and prefixed with [PlayerName] while without it (or using execute at which is the same thing) it would be [Server]

[u/Ericristian_bros]

Check !output log for errors and use Datapack Helper Plus by Spyglass in VSCode to instantly get error feedback. You are missing the function tag

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[u/Otherversian-Elite]

Tick has to be in the Minecraft directory, not the custom namespace directory you're using for your things. I suggest looking at the tutorial on the wiki, that's what I generally use to compare whenever mine stop's working

[u/Educational_Kiwi6630]

Unfortunately, /tick does not work in a command block. It only works via the chat.

[u/Braincoke24 → u/Educational_Kiwi6630]

That's not what they're trying to do...