Minecraft Scoreboard Operation Tutorial [1.16-1.20] How to Count Entities

In this Minecraft scoreboard tutorial, learn how to use "/scoreboard players operation" in Minecraft 1.16/1.17 (working in 1.19 and 1.18)! This command is good for minigames, PvP, datapacks, and anywhere you need to do math operations with scoreboards! I'll show you how to count entities with commands
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This is the latest scoreboard operation tutorial. I saw a lack of minecraft 1.17 scoreboard tutorial(s). Learn how to use the scoreboard command in minecraft, how to use /scoreboard, or how to do math with scoreboards in minecraft. This could help you learn how to make a calculator in minecraft, or how to make a death counter/kill counter/entity counter in minecraft 1.16.5! This isn't a redstone tutorial, it's a minecraft command tutorial/minecraft command how to. This is good for minecraft datapacks/data packs (the official spelling), and map making/mapmaking in vanilla minecraft. If you want to make minecraft minigames in vanilla like on big servers (cough hypixel cough), then watch this minecraft scoreboard tutorial, and learn the advanced features of the /scoreboard command in 1.16.

[@chocolatechipbleach8341]

Previously, i thought I had peaked in the art of command block coding. I watched every video, every tutorial, every reddit post. I never learned anything useful or new. I even knew the scoreboard command really well and used it regularly. Then, my phone rang (literally by the way, I have notifications turned on). I watched the new Legitimoose video, and ascended into another reality because I was reminded that im not the best command creator. I would like to thank Legitimoose for my time today, my command creations are now much more complex.

[@chocolatechipbleach8341]

Do you think possibly you could do a more advanced command tutorial? I dont have anything specific in mind, I just learned all the basics and theres no good tutorials for more advanced stuff.

[@Legitimoose]

​ @ChocolateChipBleach ChocolateFlavoredBleach god youre just the ideal fan. god-tier comment. there are some more "advanced" things i'd like to eventually get to. some things like /data, predicates, and custom modeling i think would be fun to try and explain. i recently got into CEM modelling with optifine and I noticed there aren't any tutorials about how to animate custom mobs 👀👀👀 and if you ever come up with a video idea feel free to let me know, my google doc is always hungry for more 😈

[@chocolatechipbleach8341]

Legitimoose Are you god or something because this channel is holy. You AirPlay this in the big ole church tv during Christian Sunday mass, Boom! Atheists converted. Mission passed, respect+

[@TaluA42]

I feel the same your channel is the only channel with good tutorials for more advanced command block users

[@thegoodguy6496]

@@Legitimoose moose make a scoreboard operation where you can get percentages of a objective.

[@jexl1059]

oh goodness you are so helpful! please dont stop making these videos as I have found them the most helpful things on the internet!

[@Hectorien_]

I must say even at 61K subs you deserve more attention. I was making a pvp arena with two teams, and I didn't know how to track how many players were left in the teams. You made my day, seriously. I found you not so long ago, roughly when I started this project and was watching alot of tutorials. The first tutorial I watched was the /team tutorial btw

[@Wither14]

Your videos are so helpful. They have the perfect combination of hilarious and helpful, and have dramatically affected my knowledge on commands. Thank you so much and I hope you continue to make these kind of videos!

[@atlas_19]

2:36 You seriously have, and probably will, taught me lots of thing I have never known and never seen anywhere. And this is the first time I'm seeing you. You're underrated fr.

[@unkerror8819]

Man idk what to say.. i'm new to this datapack stuff and i didin't find any helpfull tutorial until i found your channel you deserve much more and keep up the great work.

[@Teomaniac]

Dude I already know how to do this but I’m watching bc it’s so entertaining +1 sub

[@Death_Tr00per58]

Thank you so much, I got to the actual operation step of the command and didn't realize that the += indicated simple addition rather than a logic statement

[@mjwitz10]

Thanks for this video. It helped me set up a count on a scoreboard for getting the number of players on each team.

[@Legitimoose]

That's a really good use for this! Glad to be helpful :D

[@MrGoyo67]

gracias carnal, tus videos me hacen mejor con mis proyectos. Te quiero

[@Legitimoose]

gracias! :D

[@a1d9a9m9]

This video is great! really helped me out building a lives system for a minigame :D Thanks!

[@Legitimoose]

Perfect! Glad you found the right tutorial for that! :D

[@critixil]

I really like command blocks too there just so cool and you can make so much things and im already subbed cuz its too good

[@oscarduly8119]

Your other video and this one helped me with my minecraft server

[@linuslafond7341]

i love getting taught commands that I don't fully understand (especially from you)

[@notaperson7986]

Thank you sm i needed this

[@lokipuck4168]

You deserve more subscribers. So usefull

[@jason_chrst]

Idk what is this, so helpful :D

[@ZlijahMaps]

As a Minecraft puzzle map maker /scoreboard is very useful for a multitude of reasons

[@duffyscottc]

I was watching this and was wondering why I suddenly felt stress. Then I realized he was playing the Super Mario Bros 2 soundtrack lol. Inherent stress from playing that game as a kid. Also great video!

[@Lightspeed_YT]

This is soooooooooo helpful

[@grahamududec753]

Hey if I can give you a tip, you fell into a bad habit of people who teach coding by using an operator word as a variable. It is VERY hard for people who don't understand to follow along when you add a hashtag to Count as it's not immediately clear whether this is the player you've just created or the Minecraft operator "count". I know that the parts of the code are coloured but you have to understand it before someone can *remember* what the colours mean, they have to *understand* what the colours mean, and having variables that share names with the core code makes it exponentially longer to understand in the first place. That being said you are the absolute best at describing what you're doing efficiently and why it's happening, and I appreciate it very much. I just got into minecraft coding and Java and you have been the biggest help over any other resource.

[@riverwithoutwifi3198]

so basicaly me and my friends are making an event, ites been like 2 years i watched the old trailer cried and i pledged that for at least 10 min a day i will help devolpe it. now i9 am here watching this to learn the ways.

[@mouseyboy427]

colonel, i'm trying to sneak around, but my scoreboard is dummy

[@pl4zmach.editz16]

TYSM

[@thomb.9013]

thx needed this for lifesteal datapack im making to calculate how many hearts players have

[@sandgaming2593]

Can you make a turtorial on how you use score boards for entity hp/heal points? If you do, it will make my boss fight map alot easier to do.

[@GoQQmode]

If only you are my Math Teacher, You will make Math easier for me XD, but to be Honest Thank you so much Legitimoose I will Continue watching you even if you might change your content I promise that, Thank you again for teaching us another Wonderful Detail on these commands and have a wonderful day

[@Legitimoose]

Thanks! I'm glad to hear you'll stick around. I am actually working on some new kinds of content. Stay tuned! 👀

[@Creativeman2]

Hi there, thx for the informative video, but i must ask, is there a way to sum multiple ready-only scores into one stored score? I'm trying to make custom raid waves, but i'm having difficulty setting the bossbar to be equal to the total health of all entities in that wave...

[@curbs2269]

Do you have a vid on picking up coins and deleting them in your inventory...still counting them on the sidebar?

[@Infinity-js5vk]

good tutor, ty

[@Legitimoose]

thanks!

[@OtakuG]

I love your videos but the music is so high ):

[@palalal]

Yeah, the content is amazing, but the music is kind of distracting

[@IPPE_]

Hi! Is there possible write Custom text to scoreboard or show on The scoreboard every player theyr own teams? :)

[@Chaminox]

nice

[@AcryllixGD]

cheeseland makes this tutorial so perfect.

[@zchadm]

I'm currently struggling with a problem. I have a scoreboard that tracks normal diamond ore mined, and a scoreboard for deepslate diamond ore mined, is there any way for me to create a scoreboard that adds those two values together and displays at as something like "Blue Rocks Mined" in a scoreboard? I'm sure I can do it, I'm just unsure of how I would go about it.

[@dudemannors8894]

is it possible to make a wave system using the scoreboard as the way to start and finish a wave?

[@tnsquidd]

Your tutorials have been very useful while i've been making my own game in Minecraft! is it possible to do operations with more than 2 scoreboards? I have a situation where I need to add the total value of 3 scoreboards and output the result as a 4th scoreboard In other words, i need to constantly run "4th scoreboard = (1st + 2nd + 3rd) " every tick, and have not yet found a way to do that with +=

[@Legitimoose]

Something like this: 4th = 0 4th += 1st 4th += 2nd 4th += 3rd

[@justinenriquez9197]

What you can do is what legitmoose said, it will work but you need to put each scoreboard command in different command block and use chain commands and stuff, or you could use execute which would be harder i think

[@tnsquidd]

@@Legitimoose That worked, thank you!

[@FoodStampPhone]

Is there a way to make a command block im using as a “stronghold counter” not spammable for my mini game? Ive got a a scoreboard system setup to count “strognholds” around my map to keep up with “kingdoms” and i cant figure out how to keep the command block from being spammed.

[@codexed-i]

The [operator]= symbols in programming mean: x = x [operator] y

[@gamerboi1628]

How the hell do you only have 4.28k subs?

[@fleezyt2418]

I tried using the chain command block like you did in the video and it didnt work but when i did the impulse one it worked instead. What's the problem with the chain block?

[@DannyDiNunzio]

I have been trying to figure this out: I need to have a command block detect a boss mobs health and execute a command when it is below a certain amount. for example: my boss name is Selora ( witch) and she has a started health of 300. When she loses life down to 100, she will teleport to another room. More like when the health hits 100 or below a command block will activate a signal through a comparator so that I can shut it off after it activates.

[@someordinaryguy4004]

how to make a two objective? ex: you have one to collect certain things and the second to kill something? thx if you can help!

[@danielw5225]

0:30 TapL reference

[@robburkhard4676]

how do I test if a player has ever been to a specific area? or new to a server? I want to give a starter pack to new players but i dont want them to be able to keep going back to get more?

[@ryostar2454]

Hey Legitimoose can you tell me how to remove a player only the player since I am making a map I am trying to remove a person who visited my place

[@estellemus7180]

hi i am making an minecraft map and i was wondering how do i make an "objective" for example i have an objective called "new objective: kill all the sheep and sell it to the shop keeper" and when you've killed all the sheep (3 sheep to be exact) it says "objective completed" i really have no clue how to do this and my brain is melting and i cant really find anything that helps

[@MajesticB_17]

One only person who can teach me commands

[@Legitimoose]

[@MajesticB_17]

@@Legitimoose it's you OMG

[@alter019kuchen]

But how do you do it so when you click an button if will see if you got 100 points if yes it will take 100 points and give you something but I don’t want it to go below 0

[@Toto70Dev]

Is there any commands to change color or display name bc when i change display name, it show me an error! im on 1.20.1

[@tntaco07]

How Do you have multiple values show up for one player on the sidebar?

[@idocommandblockslive9517]

how do i cauculate who has the most scoreboard points and display some text and run a command with it?

[@maguy2538]

How do you set a max for a scoreboard like if I made stamina

[@lucarl1021]

For the entity counter you can do it in one command execute store result score !Count Count run execute if entity @e

[@aaronrhodes6770]

You should never do "run execute", it just adds needless bloat to commands, since execute subcommands can be chained together without it, like so: execute store result score !Count Count if entity @e

[@lucarl1021]

@@aaronrhodes6770 ooh yeah you’re right, I have no idea why I wrote this, I was surely young and stupid at the time XD

[@cngg.]

Hi, I've a question, I've got a minecraft server and I would like to do a time played scoreboard which shows how long me and my friends have played on the server. The only problem is, I have absolutely no idea how I get this to work. So yea, can you do a tutorial about it. Btw it should work in 1.16.1 ;) And now I just wanna say thanks for doing this great content! :D

[@Legitimoose]

Thanks! Maybe you already know this, but I think the Statistics page shows how long you've played in a world! There might be a time-played scoreboard criteria to go with it, if that's what you're looking for. :D

[@cngg.]

@@Legitimoose i've tried it but it didn't work because after I've reconnected it was reset

[@Legitimoose]

​ @GGVGG Hmm, then probably the _best_ way (even if it's not the easiest) would be to make a datapack and use /schedule (minecraft.gamepedia.com/Commands/schedule). I've got a tutorial on setting up datapacks (but not one on /schedule hmmmmmmm). This probably _would_ make for a good tutorial now that I think about it. If learning to use /schedule and scoreboards sounds hard you might be able to find someone else's time playtime tracker. You could try looking up "minecraft time played datapack" or something. I'd _imagine_ someone has made something like that before, but knowing Minecraft there might be no such thing for 1.16.

[@cngg.]

@@Legitimoose Thanks for your time and your ideas, Bro. I really appreciate that! :D

[@cngg.]

@@Legitimoose And by the way, I have made a data pack using your great tutorial ;)

[@AdvertiserLucas]

I have a question, how do I get the score on to some thing? If I wanted to fill blocks one by one, and I wanted to say /fill [a score] 45 34 [a score] 46 33 air. How would I get the score to that place? Is it even possible?

[@commandblocklizard1013]

How can you make a personal scoreboard like if I had 10 points but another player can’t see it and can this be on ps4???

[@Legitimoose]

Hi! I'm assuming you mean you want it to be visible. (since there's nothing saying you _have_ to have your scoreboard be visible for it to exist). Your options are to use the team sidebars (based on the color of the team each player is on) or to use a different way of displaying a number. You could try and store your personal scores using the XP bar for example! I think /bossbar can also be personalized and use scoreboards as a value. It might be a bit complicated but depending on the effect you're going for you could have a personal score any number of ways. I personally play on the _real_ Minecraft version so I can't promise it'll be the exact same on PS4, but as far as I know 90% of commands are the same on PC and bedrocc. End wall of text. Hope this helps!

[@CBrennSalva]

How do you make it so that each player joined in a server has his own scoreboard

[@jeroenluyckx7112]

I have a: Default Scoreboard for players 0 and I cant seem to get rid of it its just stuck on the sidebar, anyone have any clue how to remove it or hide it?

[@clarachaisa3294]

Iv'e tried on command and results are "Unknown scoreboard objective Count 1" cann you help me?

[@alexisgianos8453]

I made the mob counter like yours on bedrock but I cant seem to figure out how to make it into a mob kill counter for each player or if its even possible. Ive watched a lot of your videos and others converting the commands to bedrock. I'm making a map with 3 stats that once you get all those stats to a certain level you rank up. One of the stats is attack which is where I'd like the mob counter to come in. Do you possibly know how to make it to where each mob that is killed adds a point to the player who killed it

[@alexisgianos8453]

any info would be greatly apperciated

[@lukasolejniczak514]

You could just make it track the mob Drops that every Player has collected via the clear items (clear only 1 item)command and track how many times the command has been succesfully done with a chance commandblock that adds 1 to the score. Sadly you need a seperate command_Block for each online Player and assign a tag for each one.

[@Extrony]

How would I give people who have a particular score a item?

[@flavio7683]

Hi! is it possible to set a "player"s scoreboard depending of the operation of two other scoreboards?

[@Legitimoose]

Sure, you'll just need to do multiple commands! If you wanted to say, set the players score to the result of A + B you could: Set players score to A Run a += on the players score to add B. Bam! it's done! Hope this answers your question!

[@ciarawilliamson3947]

thanks

[@Legitimoose]

your comments increase in power level every time

[@ciarawilliamson3947]

thanks

[@nhatle5457]

pls teach me how to make my scoreboard display above my actionbar

[@ItsMe_Victor]

i need some help, ive been trying to make a list of every entities coordinates so that then i can read them backwards and rewind time, does anybody know how to do that?

[@theintelligence7925]

Hello I want to learn on how to make an emerald counter scoreboard. Means that every time a player earns an emerald from trading and mining on an ore or receiving it from a player, it will add 1 point on the scoreboard and it should not reset. I was making a server where it defines a player's wealth since the beginning of their playing time. I hope you'll notice me and I would be thankful if u make a video like these,👌thank u so much, much appreciated and well done! ❤️

[@Legitimoose]

Hello! If you want to count how many of an item (emeralds) are in a players inventory, you can use /execute store to store the result of a /clear command, where the amount of items you're clearing is 0. I typed this from memory, so it might not work, but here's a command to store the number of emeralds each player has into a scoreboard called "emeralds" /execute as @a execute store result score @s emeralds run clear @s emerald 0 Hope this helps!

[@SlimjimcakeOfficial]

How do I link my scoreboard to the ammount of mobs i have killed

[@lorenzo_00]

is that possible use this command?, for example: "/scoreboard players test @p"?

[@Purplesome_]

what are you trying to do? There is no scoreboard test command but whatever you're trying to do there's probably a way to do it

[@sultam1081]

hi, can u do video how to put health below ur name?

[@koronx058]

I am trying to make a scoreboard that gives players a number but makes sure they never have the same number. Anyone know how to do this?

[@ahetrog]

Can you please teach me on how to make a currency with a minimum amount of 0

[@davidbjorkhansen227]

how do i color my scoreboard?

[@dorukveoguzsupra]

im a programmer. I was doing some minacraft maps to play with my friends but I used mods that I made myself and then I remembered aternos servers don't support every mod if it isn't in the aternos's mods library so I can't use the mod. I changed the idea and now I'm making another map In vanilla minecraft. i need to print a score's value, i also need to get the value and do something when the value is 1 and do something other when the value is 0. Its like binary but with only 1 integer. In some programming languages ones and zeros used for true false. Basically 0 is false and 1 is true. The video is good but its basics about the command. btw ı don't even know if printing a value of a score is even possible.

[@dangersheep2971]

Sorry if I missed something, but how do I lower the count when an entity dies?

[@Purplesome_]

Just run the commands again

[@ghostbuddy1351]

My head hurtsss

[@marcoostheimer1293]

Why cant i use numbers in the operation

[@go-kartingspeedzone7712]

Can you make it if I like have 5 or more points in scoreboard it resets it?

[@Legitimoose]

Of course! Check out part 1 of my scoreboard tutorial, that's one of the things I cover in it!

[@cosmq]

create a scoreboar exectute as @a[score=..5] run scoreboard player reset

[@CookieCft]

I love ur voice lol

[@PHANTOM404]

can, some one tell em how to make like a scoreboard effect ur potions, like i have 5 in my scorboard, how do i make it give me a level 5 potion effect or something

[@ravijoshi4999]

umm i can help you kinda look bro first is that you just teach me scoreboard command fully cause in this video its a bit confusing but once you teach me i can use execute command and help you for that you have to join my discord and just teach everything to each other

[@PHANTOM404]

@@ravijoshi4999 OKE

[@PHANTOM404]

@@ravijoshi4999 U SUB TO ME FIRST THO

[@diamonddelicious8834]

We need a scoreboard plus teams

[@rodaguj5718]

2:18 me: space bar

[@MasterEyad]

I knew all about scoreboards but idk about operations

[@niftyd123]

Is it possible to count the amount of time a player or team is alive?

[@Legitimoose]

Yes! Create a scoreboard called time_alive or something, and run (every tick) /execute as @a run scoreboard players add @s time_alive 1 . Then when they die you can reset the score to 0. (the time alive would be stored in ticks this way, so a time of 20 would mean they've been alive 1 second.) You could also adapt this to run while a team still has living players on it. Hope this helps!

[@niftyd123]

@@Legitimoose Thanks, I’m trying to recreate a minecraft Monday type thing with a big group of people, I want to do a leaderboard where it shows the points a team has that they get from either killing of staying alive for a long amount of time. It it possible to make the score stop when they get back to a lobby so that you can see everyone’s score?

[@Miczkunio]

have u considered starting a ko-fi account for people like me who wants to donate but doesnt want to use patreon?

[@questioned_6159]

How would I give players lives? Iv been trying to do this ages now and I can’t get it ._. I wanna have players in a server start with 3 lives and when they die they go into spectator mode, any help would be greatly appreciated it’s probably something simple but I don’t know nothing about commands and this video is the closest iv gotten to my goal

[@Legitimoose]

That's a cool idea! You could be slightly sneaky about it and rather than count down from 3, you could count _up_ to 3 deaths. So add a deathCount scoreboard and when it's 3 or higher set the players gamemode to spectator (if they aren't already in spectator). This way uses a lot less commands for essentially the same effect! (and if you wanted a scoreboard to count down you could always set their "lives" score to 3 minus the number of times they died) Let me know if this works for you!

[@questioned_6159]

Legitimoose ay man I only saw this now I’ll try it and I’ll let you know how it goes, really appreciate the help

[@Legitimoose]

@@questioned_6159 No problem, glad to be of soivice!

[@rubymorgan7221]

@@Legitimoose I’m very behind on this comment thread, but would you mind writing the cheat one would need to use to put the players into spectator mode upon losing their life? I’ve been trying a bunch of things for two days straight and you’ve been the most helpful! Thank you!

[@Legitimoose]

​@@rubymorgan7221 Hi! If you create a deathCount scoreboard called "deaths", you could use the command _/gamemode spectator @a[gamemode=!spectator,scores={deaths=3..}]_ If you run this command it will put all players with more than 3 deaths on the scoreboard into spectator mode. It also excludes people who are already in spectator to reduce lag slightly!

[@slagaming420]

Can you help me get a scoreboard to count the amount of carrots I gather.

[@Legitimoose]

Hi! For that you can use the minecraft.pickedUp objective type. E.G _/scoreboard objectives add carrots minecraft.picked_up:minecraft.carrot_ That will create an objective called "carrots" that counts how many carrot items you have picked up. You could also use _minecraft.mined:minecraft.carrots_ if you want to count the number of carrot blocks you've broken. Hope this is helpful!

[@MajesticB_17]

Legit I want a scoreboard that show money for my server can you tell me

[@Legitimoose]

step 1. make a dummy scoreboard, and set the display to list or belowname (sidebar might become hard to read once there's too many people on it) step 2. add and remove points from it like money step 3. profit i hope this helps

[@GamingWithMEohio]

my math teacher but better

[@mropscripter876]

"Modulo"? I believe it's pronounced majales.

[@kinglowsea3432]

Hey um if you get this notification please tell me How do you make it where when you kill someone you get points

[@Legitimoose]

Hi there, this is a list of scoreboard criteria: minecraft.gamepedia.com/Scoreboard#Single_criteria _playerKillCount_ is the one that tracks player kills. Hope that works for you!

[@kinglowsea3432]

Thank you for the information

[@anuarahmad3081]

Next is /data

[@Legitimoose]

/data is a cool command. Maybe I'll make a tutorial on it some day! ;^)

[@anuarahmad3081]

Yes thank you

[@Confidentail0]

How to do heart

[@Legitimoose]

how do you make a health scoreboard??? I'm not sure what you mean 😵

[@photoncraft1109]

i made an calculator with only plus

[@mouseyboy427]

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[@Legitimoose]

mojang takes 6000 months to reply to support emails ;_; i am legitermoose for the time being

[@andreimix]

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[@Legitimoose]

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[@Mr.RTR7]

why does this people keep askin to subscribe doesnt he know all people subscribe just seeing his channel logo:?