How To Change The Gamemode For A Specific Player? - Minecraft Forum

• Stone Miner
• Join Date: 1/29/2016
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I want to change the gamemode of a specific player when he enters an area using a command block.

Not sure how to do it:

Tried: (not working)

/gamemode survival @e[m=2,r=20,name=playername] <<=== solved, this works

/gamemode survival @playername[m=2,r=20]

• Stone Miner
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Quote from ShelLuser»

gamemode survival @a[r=20]

That would place players within a 20 block range into survival mode.

• Stone Miner
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ok I solved it.

The first command I tried works. I had conflicting commands that bug it.

So this works: It will change playername from gamemode adventure to survival.

/gamemode survival @e[m=2,r=20,name=playername]

• Coal Miner
• Join Date: 7/19/2017
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I'm trying to figure this out... I would have thought that @p[r=20, name=playername] would have worked, but if it doesn't, maybe you need to do a work-around... put

gamemode survival playername

into one function (functions/herbapou/utility/playernamemode.mcfunction ) and

execute playername ~ ~ ~ summon minecraft:vex ~ ~1 ~ {CustomName:trigger,NoAI:1b,Silent:1,ActiveEffects:[{Id:14,Amplifier:0,Duration:2147483647}]}

Into another function (I picked the Vex because it naturally despawns after a short while.) Call this one functions/herbapou/utility/playernametrigger.mcfunction.

Then, at your desired location, have two repeating command blocks:

/function herbapou:utility/playernamemode if @e[r=20, name="trigger"]

And:

/function herbapou:utility/playernametrigger if @p[r=20, m=adventure]

What this does is it summons a named vex at the named player's location, regardless of whether the player is nearby, any time any player at all enters the area, then the other block checks if a vex with that name exists within the area, which only happens if the player is in the area. If there is a vex with that name, the player's game mode is changed.

I suppose this could be compacted. But someone else is going to have to figure it out.

• Redstone Miner
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Quote from herbapou»

ok I solved it.

The first command I tried works. I had conflicting commands that bug it.

So this works: It will change playername from gamemode adventure to survival.

/gamemode survival @e[m=2,r=20,name=playername]

• Stone Miner
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Quote from Vindicar» Except it will also work for ANY entity with the same name, like a nametagged mob. I suggest you use @a selector instead of @e.