Minecraft Right Click Detection [1.19] Several Ways

Learn all about right click detection in vanilla Minecraft 1.17/1.18/1.19! I'll show you several methods (carrot on a stick, armor stand, villager, eye of ender, and more!*) Detecting right clicks is very useful for basically any project, ranging from custom guns/weapons, interactive menus, or... literally anything you want to be able to click. A must know! ;^)
Advancement Generator:
misode.github.io/advancement/
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:44 - 10,000 IQ Method
1:02 - Carrot on a Stick vs. Warped Fungus on a Stick
2:38 - How to Code Carrot/Warped Fungus Detection
5:19 - Detecting Any Item (w/ Carrot on a Stick)
5:49 - subscribe :)
6:17 - Villager Method
7:24 - Armor Stand Method
8:50 - BEST Method?!?! (Eye of Ender Method)
CARROT/WARPED FUNGUS ON A STICK COMMANDS:
scoreboard objectives add carrot minecraft.used:minecraft.carrot_on_a_stick
OR
scoreboard objectives add carrot minecraft.used:minecraft.warped_fungus_on_a_stick
^ you should probably change this to "fungus" or something
execute as @a if score @s carrot matches 1.. at @s run function tutorial:carrot
(Make sure to change "tutorial:carrot" to your function name!)
scoreboard players reset @s carrot
PUT CARROT IN OFFHAND WHEN HOLDING ITEM (in this case, a diamond):
execute as @a[nbt={SelectedItem:{id:"minecraft:diamond"}}] run item replace entity @s weapon.offhand with carrot_on_a_stick
execute as @a[nbt=!{SelectedItem:{id:"minecraft:diamond"}}] run item replace entity @s weapon.offhand with air
ARMOR STAND METHOD:
execute as @e[type=armor_stand,nbt={HandItems:[{id:"minecraft:poppy"},{}]}] at @s run say detect!
(Replace "say detect!" with running a function that does whatever you want!)
My eye.json file (don't forget to change the function at the bottom):
{
"criteria": {
"eye": {
"trigger": "minecraft:using_item",
"conditions": {
"item": {
"items": [
"minecraft:ender_eye"
]
}
}
}
},
"rewards": {
"function": "tutorial:eye"
}
}
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that is actually how many i'll show you yes*
**but don't forget warped fungus on a stick

[@backoloryt1804]

I don't mod, make data packs, or make maps for minecraft, but here I am, watching this full video, and absorbing the information as though I'll ever use it

[@kylorde1608]

Its always fun learning regardless though, knowing things exist means you could go back if you ever need the information

[@UnlucksMcGee]

The simplest fix to the ender eye method is to give it a custom NBT tag (sidenote: the item is an "ender_eye" and the entity is an "eye_of_ender"). 1. Give the player the custom ender_eye item: give @s minecraft:ender_eye{myCustomEye:1b} 2. Add an nbt condition to the advancement criteria (ensure you have a comma in the line just before nbt): In advancements/eye.json: { "criteria": { "requirement": { "trigger": "minecraft:using_item", "conditions": { "item": { "items": [ "minecraft:ender_eye" ], "nbt": "{myCustomEye:1b}" } } } }, "rewards": { "function": "tutorial:eye" } } 3. Add a command to kill only the eye_of_ender entity with that nbt tag: In functions/eye.mcfunction: advancement revoke @s only tutorial:eye kill @e[type=minecraft:eye_of_ender,nbt={Item:{tag:{myCustomEye:1b}}}] 4. (Optional) If the player is not in creative mode, replace the consumed ender_eye item in their hotbar slot

[@a_tet]

I thought this woundnt work because, why would the entity have the same nbt as the item? I tested it just to be sure and it does work, the reason i got by thinking 2 seconds is that the eye drops itself, thats why it inherits the nbt, so the eye you throw and the one you recieve are identical

[@Rugbeat90999]

I will be using this, thank you. It is greatly appreciated.

[@DeleteKernel]

@@a_tet the eye entity also uses the same texture as the item u held before

[@bloxxer_tv]

HOLD ON, YOU CAN GIVE ITEMS CUSTOM NBT DATA???

[@kappascopezz5122]

You can use a shield instead of an eye of ender to get it working in worlds with strongholds

[@HyperKNF]

or actually virtually any usable item

[@kappascopezz5122]

@@HyperKNF Not every usable item if you count instantaneous use as a use, because the using_item advancement trigger only detects items that have a continuous use

[@flip_bo9839]

Hello Mr. moose, your tutorials are the best on KZbin! My Datapack gets filled more and more!

[@jiraffe3790]

You're a life saver with these tutorials. You helped me make a 2 week, 3v3 Heros vs Villains server and it's super cool!

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

Thank you, it's very rare to see different method compilation videos. I know a lot of these but have to think of them from scratch and a discussion of them all and pros/cons is an excellent review and super helpful.

[@kasma_9099]

you're tutorials are literately the only ones that help me with anything

[@winniescreations]

You uploaded a video about this topic right when I needed it. Thank you sooo much!

[@agentfizz1047]

Finally, he remembered his KZbin password. *It's been so long since he posted: 2 Months to be exact*

[@LordJpeg]

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[@RetrospillBlogspotNO]

Actually he inspired me to make my first data pack and publish it to planetminecraft.. Just an Amazing youtuber..!

[@JashSKreal]

Thanks so much for this. I was looking for an item without a cooldown for right click detection and this is perfect :D

[@bettercalldelta]

Thank you dude, when I search for command related stuff your videos are always the most helpful

[@mihneamanea8161]

I spent a while time trying to figure out right click detection in december of 2020 (figured it out tho) and now he posts a video about it. well, at least it will be helpful to other people. Also you have some of the best command block tutorials I've seen on youtube!! Great job!!!

[@alfredogamer]

Just in time, i was looking this video on your channel xDD thank youuuu

[@Frostyflytrap]

Thanks for the concise guide to all options with their upsides and drawbacks! I just tried the Ender Eye method on my existing world and surprisingly it worked a lot slower than the carrot on a stick method, I suspected it was to do with poor optimization on my part so I tested it on a separate part and that was definitely the case. Well, I have no idea what may be interfering with that so I guess it's time to rip my old datapack apart and start from scratch I guess...

[@mercuryteamfortress]

You probably have too much stuff in loop/tick.mcfunction.

[@oalo]

In 1.18.2, you can change data/minecraft/tags/worldgen/structure/eye_of_ender_located.json via datapack and set it to: { "replace": true, "values": [ ] } it lets you do this in a dimension which includes a stronghold and still lets you /locate it only downside is the vanilla eye of enders can't find the stronghold

[@CT--od7ux]

finally a good tutorial, from someone i know(suscribed to and watch his other videos) is this the greatest comeback in history?

[@jexl1059]

i love your shameless plug for the datapack tutorial. honestly ive watched it like 10x or more

[@corbin_fishing]

Ives watched the first few seconds and I already know all that I need to rank you for getting straight to the point Ill watch the whole video tho ;)

[@Katslia]

Video Idea: How about tutorials for the Advancements generator or the Item modifier generator? Edit: also where did you learn your commands?

[@Legitimoose]

I learned a lot from Dragnoz' tutorials back when scoreboards were added to the game ;^) Then I pretty much just kept up to date with each new update, and pretty soon commands had gotten huge. Also, learning programming in general helps a lot. There's a lot of things you can cross-apply. Thanks for the suggestion ;^)

[@FriedMonkey362]

​@@Legitimooseman i know c# (similar to java) But Minecraft datapacks are its own unique confusing thing I dont understand datapacks and seleciting and @ One thing im thinking of is making a programming language that compiles to Minecraft datapacks But idk how doable it is

[@talwat321]

Maybe you could make like a random number generation tutorial. Since its pretty useful :^) Amazing video btw. Never knew you could use fungi for the right click detection, I will be sure to use that!

[@official-obama]

i don't think minecraft actually has any rng

[@devhunt9054]

Was looking for this for months lol

[@adestemmedkale2415]

ty for helping with this detection. i was having a bit of trouble with it

[@Fishiest]

after half way in the carrot on a stick method i relised that i already knew how to do right click detection, just watching because your funny

[@leo848]

I was here when you only had 4k subscribers. Now you have 28k... Your content is amazing!

[@Lalloyd7859]

Hi legitimoose! Love your content! Im here from the beginning ! , I would like if you make a video about Item Modifiers and Data command - Not enough information in this section of minecraft commands, And you are the only one who can do it the best!

[@TyphoonMC]

Congrats on 5 Million Channel Views!!! :D

[@lapistriker]

super informative, concise and useful. noice

[@xandertan3247]

You did what I always wanted!!!

[@raandomplayer8589]

Very useful. Thank you!!!

[@corbin_fishing]

Finally this is what I need idk if this is going to be a simple useless tutorial or something for more advanced users like me

[@isaacfajardo595]

Finally a new video!! Its been forever(2 months).

[@vsgamesdev3845]

I needed it, he uploaded.

[@EvilsSouls]

The legend is back!

[@JustJqke]

you also forgot detecting rightclicks on a specific block using items, the advancement is “item used on block” or something like that, i used it for a kit selection a while back and it works pretty well, sadly you can’t check when a player clicks on air, it has to be on a block, but it works without holding an item so that’s pretty cool

[@aethermaster4372]

About the last part, it could actually work in plain survival if you set to the eye of ender a scoreboard "timer" to detect an eye of ender's time, so at some point you'll regain the eye of ender. Though that'll need 3 more commands. But, it won't give you an other item if there aren't any other strongholds around, so that way you can make it work easily. And else what can be done is a toggle function to the previous 3 commands, so they only will work when needed. In case you need some more detail, I can then somehow help out with it.

[@jasonrenard798]

Hihi I love your tutorials thanks actualamoose

[@Anubis1101]

the Carrot on a Stick method works with any item that has a right-click function, but it ALSO works on consumables, tools or anything that consumes durability. while it may not be as versatile as the Advancement method, its perfect for doing things like making a sword that causes lightning to strike every time you hit a mob, or a pickaxe that detonates TNT a few blocks in front of you every time it breaks a block. its also really easy to set up without using data packs, which are still a hassle for people unfamiliar with programming or who just want to do something simple.

[@bbenny9033]

i still have no clue what id do with this information but i enjoyed it ty

[@michaelo4476]

Great video! Though it's worth mentioning: Rather than using ' if score ', you can just run the command you want but use @a[scores={carrot=1..}] . Checking for scores in a target selector is more efficient than in executive if. It won't make much difference lag wise, but if you have a large datapack it's worth doing :)

[@GameFloWM]

nie? można to na spokojnie użyć w @a[scores={}] jak i w if score...

[@michaelo4476]

@@GameFloWM sorry i would reply but i don't understand what google translate is saying :/

[@aethersword7823]

WAKE UP EVERYONE! A new method just dropped (in snapshot 24w12a for version 1.20.5): Set your item component to food and set the eating time to 1 of 2 options. 3.4e38 - maximum float value, it disables the eating animation and eating particles. 0.001 - infinitely eating, food particles show. The component: > minecraft:food={nutrition:0,saturation_modifier:0,can_always_eat:true,eat_seconds:3.4e38} then you can simply detect it with "using_item" advancement

[@ProfPeeWee]

Great tutorial! There’s the fishing rod also 🎣

[@Legitimoose]

^ Good point, nearly forgot the ol' rod :o

[@M_1024]

@@Legitimoose There is also recipe book

[@DemonboiX9]

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[@furrer8123]

I really appreciate that you actually read comments.

[@Legitimoose]

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[@animationsbelike]

great tutorial!!! :)

[@Legitimoose]

Thanks!

[@KubikaTobik]

I love your videos

[@b_z_27]

great video

[@zoteiscool2134]

i didnt watch this video yet, but i just wanna say your videos are amazing and i like them a lot

[@Uthimentius]

You could also use snowballs for right-click detection. Just tag the snowball and when you chuck it, kill the snowball entity and give the snowball back, whether by /give or /item. You could do this with eggs and ender pearls as well!

[@Voltrass]

I love this so much

[@sselesUneeuQ]

here's the thing: I came across this looking for a way to detect when a player uses a heart consumable or revive consumable so disappearing automagically after using it is perfect. Especially paired with a little /kill @e magic specifically for the ender_eye while it's within a block of the player.

[@kido_]

I didnt know i needed you until i needed you (which is now)

[@Neodel]

5:52 Finally someone realised my strange left click to use control binding 💀

[@termax7979]

Is there a way to counter the "slowness effect" that you recive while holding the Ender Eye trought datapack? I've tries with command blocks but they are top slow to detect when i stop using It so i get super-fast for half of a second before returning to my normal speed

[@BusterBrown1217]

The ender eye is exactly what I needed!

[@Legitimoose]

glad i could help!

[@commander6432]

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[@theelitepotatoe7443]

lets get this man to 30k

[@gooberznash]

You're just the best Legitimoose

[@Picturam_2]

The legends spoke of his return

[@jacobthompson1209]

There is a video by someone named conure where he runs a command that basically makes it so you can eat the item but if you set the eat time to a really high amount it doesn't play the animation

[@holyguacamole3186]

I had no idea there was syntax highlighting for datapacks in VSCode. That would've been nice to know!

[@femboygaming64]

Thank you sir

[@j.griffioen1415]

your tutorial are so helpful and fun! thanks a lot for these! Also, is there a way for me to only activate the function if the carrot on a stick has specific name/tag/lore (I need this because i only want the datapack mamgic to happen when someone is actually holding a magic wand and not for every carrot on a stick)

[@hohi5870]

I can now make datapacks! I made a custom recipe for powder snow and teams you can join from a book like NoDeathMessages Team for mini games where death messages are important all inspired by legitimoose thanks :D And you should make shorts too like explaining /trigger and how useful it is

[@rowlet5]

I love the fact that you recognized that some ppl don't use right click, I use left click lol (my brain got washed from left is place from bedrock before i got a pc)

[@nuclearinferno6456]

Make a video about custom interfaces using chested llamas. I made such an interface as a crafting table with custom recipes and nbt.

[@ItsMe-fr6em]

There are some fixes for the ender eye method to make it work with strongholds: 1) Replace item in player's hand with (customized) ender eye right after right click detected 2) Kill all ender eye entities in a certain radius after click detected 3) (optional) Check for a block which the player is looking at the moment of click (trace or any other method) and replace it with an empty portal frame if the filled end portal frame is detected earlier

[@orionengland]

Just give the eye of ender a custom tag, and constantly /kill all thrown eyes of ender with that tag. You can also set it up so that if a player throws an eye with that tag, they are immediately given a new one. Might be some jitters in the instant after throwing it, but honestly, aside from that, it is the perfect method.

[@official-obama]

@@orionengland items don't have tags, do they?

[@iXtrafe]

YES FINALLYYYYYY

[@jexl1059]

ah man. ender eye won't work in survival??? :( but hey, i can use the villager talk advancement and now i know how to reset it! that actually cleared up so many things for me! thank you for making this video!

[@meenq_]

AH YES FINALLYYYY

[@leomaso7894]

I have a video idea, or rly just a question cause idk if you could make a whole vid on it, but how do you make a random chance generator that has a chain of commands for each number? Like, let’s say a 1-20 chance, where 1 would deal one damage to the player, two would deal two, etc. The only way I know right now of making that sort of thing is armor stand randomizers (execute at @e[tag=randomchance,limit=1,sort=random) run setblock ~ ~-1 ~ redstone_block, with command blocks under the redstone block) but that’s physical and I can’t figure out how to change it into a data pack. Maybe would I use a random chance predicate or something?

[@Legitimoose]

Personally for RNG... I always just use other people's RNG datapacks ;^) Cloud wolf has got a really nice datapack that can generate a random number in the range of your choosing using a nice pseudorandom algorithm thingy. Honestly can't recommend it (and his video about it) enough! Very useful stuff and I'd just butcher it if I explained it in this comment lol

[@leomaso7894]

@@Legitimoose amazing, thanks! I was thinking about how to make a pseudorandom thing cause I just saw your video on how to do things like multiplication and division with scoreboards, then you responded lol.

[@poteks5414]

i have a question , its posible to do custom drop (maybe if i kill zombie TOM its give me gold ) only in commend blocks?

[@hykuzo]

Hey legitmoose, do you know why when i moved my datapacks from 1.16.5 to 1.17.. all my tick.json functions were not triggering? They worked perfectly in 1.16 and ive heard other people with the same issue

[@jcthegamer1281]

Can you do Bossbar next? I need to know about it.

[@Neodel]

How do I use the on-a-stick method with specific nbt tags? i want to have multiple carrots on a stick in my pack that do different things but im not sure how to bind them to specific functioins

[@okaythenno6657]

Also I love your vids

[@boid]

Me: it’s just gonna be a carrot on a stick… Love your content!

[@okaythenno6657]

You can actually make right click detection on eyes of ender work if you kill the nearest eye of ender when you have the score then kill the eye of ender item I have not tested this in game but it probably works.

[@deltastudios6632]

Can't you give the player another eye, and kill the thrown one as soon as it becomes an entity? As for the advancement, can you test for an eye with a specific tag, so it doesn't conflict with regular Eyes of Ender?

[@sasTRproabi]

7:28 The poppy flower 👁👁

[@ultimategames78]

Hey, could you make a tutorial about the /loot command

[@443MoneyTrees]

Mojang added interaction entities and all you need to do is on target to detect it. This is so revolutionary.

[@TiltedGamer]

Video idea: Using scores from scoreboards in commands

[@stavleviatan6566]

video idea: show how to make custom damage in minecraft?

[@alexdacat7052]

Legitimoose more like legiti underated

[@BlackRockInc]

No way, he uploaded!

[@watermelongaming8658]

only 874 views 0_____0 underrated channel also please make a predicates tutorial

[@Legitimoose]

way ahead of you on the predicates tutorial ; ) kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqewdJSGhKtgo7c

[@watermelongaming8658]

@@Legitimoose how did i not see that XD thanks! your vids are awesome by the way

[@Waarmy]

Please make a 1.20 version with the "interaction" entity !

[@hootis1]

this feels like bingewatching but im actually learning shit

[@Samjb09]

is there a way to make multiple click detections with only a carrot on a stick (maybe using nbt tags)

[@TheeFlashbackMan]

mmmm i like it when they press that right click button inside minecraft it gives me much joy

[@tippedwithhoney]

You could just additionally run a command to kill the summoned eye of ender when clicking. A right click detecting item, that consumes itself, can even be pretty usefull in some cases.

[@JustJqke]

and using resource packs, you can use custom model data to make it look like other items, and you can just rename the items so it’ll look like whatever you want it to

[@NizamAfkari]

If you upload another tutorial Resource pack Advanced textures, thx so much what im talking abt is pretty much Animated things, Custom skybox and more

[@user-xd8yo2yr3r]

There is a way to use the ender eye in survival and eggs, snowball, and ender pearls. The only problem is that you have to have 2 of the same item. You have 2 snowballs, you throw one, and now you have 1 snowball. You give yourself 1 snowball, you have 2 again, then you kill the snowball. So you detected that you threw the snowball (right clicked) and you can do it again

[@yeti5609]

ender eye item condition in tbe advancement doesnt seem to work, so the advancement is not exclusive. it will run when holding shield, trident, charging bow, crossbow. I just have a main hand item checker in the advancement bound function

[@anwerty1737]

When the pigs follow you because you have a sniper rifle

[@thedoom5315]

"You will see some errors They are not real" Best quote ever

[@Rugbeat90999]

Dude you are amazing. This is fantastic, I've watched a lot of your tutorial videos and they are extremally helpful. Thank you so much!

[@data_corrupted]

Can u make sneak detection next :o