Hello, Ezra here, and today I will be telling you how to give yourself super powers, how to be nasty to your friends and enemies and how to make your pets INVINCIBLE! in Minecraft.

All these things can be done with just one command: the /effect command, possibly my favorite stand-alone command. I will show you how to make it work.

1: make sure you are in a creative world or have cheats turned on. Once loaded, press “t” in order to access your chat bar. Write “/effect” into the chat bar (without the quotations).

2: make sure you know who you want to effect. to effect yourself, type “@p”. To effect a specific person, write their name. Like this: “/effect Ratchet2000”. To effect a certain creature, like your pet, type what entity they are and their name. Like this: “/effect @e[type=Villager,name=Gary]”. if you want to effect all players type “@a” and if you want to effect all the living things in the world type “@e”. To effect stuff within a certain radius of you (including you), type “@e[r=5]” or “@a[r=7]” or whatever. For the sake of demonstration, I’m going to say that I wanted to effect myself and type “/effect @p”.

3: decide what you want to effect yourself with. Each effect is identified as a number. Here is an index for them:

“/effect @p 1” will give you speed.

“/effect @p 2” will give you slowness.

“/effect @p 3” will give you haste. (If you don’t know what haste is, look it up.)

“/effect @p 4” will give you miner’s fatigue.

“/effect @p 5” will give you strength.

“/effect @p 6” will give you

“/effect @p 7” will give you

“/effect @p 8” will give you jump boost. When reading step 5, note that you shouldn’t put the strength to below 70.

“/effect @p 9” will give you nausea. This one is REALLY good for trolling your friends without hurting them.

“/effect @p 10” will give you regeneration. Effecting yourself with this is step one to becoming INVINCIBLE!

“/effect @p 11” will give you resistance. This is step 2 to becoming INVINCIBLE!

“/effect @p 12” will give you fire resistance.

“/effect @p 13” will give you water breathing.

“/effect @p 14” will give you invisibility.

“/effect @p 15” will give you blindness. Again- good for trolling.

“/effect @p 16” will give you night vision. I enjoy giving myself this whenever I can.

“/effect @p 17” will give you hunger.

“/effect @p 18” will give you weakness.

“/effect @p 19” will give you poison.

“/effect @p 20” will give you Wither.

“/effect @p 21” will give you health boost.

“/effect @p 22” will give you absorption.

“/effect @p 23” will give you saturation.

more effects will come in the 1.9 update for Minecraft.

4: now it’s time to specify how long I want an effect to last. This is measured in seconds, going from 0 (instant and non-lasting) to 9999 (9999 seconds. Obviously.). If you type that you want it to last for 10000 seconds, most of the time it will just keep the effect on you until you either die or take it off. for example, if I gave myself speed for 10000 seconds and then gave myself speed for one second, then the speed would go away after one second. DO NOT TRY THIS ON A MULTIPLAYER WORLD. If you effect yourself with something for 10000 seconds on a multiplayer server, you have it until you die. in case of an emergency, type “/kill” to kill yourself. For the sake of our demonstration, lets say I gave myself strength for 10000 seconds. It is typed like this: “/effect @p 5 10000”.

5: Now decide how MUCH of an effect you want. For example; a normal strength potion makes your melee attacks %130 stronger. I’m not sure, but I think that means if you effect yourself with strength times 1, your attacks will be %130 stronger. If you effect yourself with strength the maximum amount of times possible (255 times)…. It’s formidable. Let’s say I wanted strength times 255. I’d type out this: “/effect @p 5 10000 255”.

6: The last and easiest step. Type “True” on the end if you don’t want bubbles to come out of you and don’t bother if you do want bubbles. If I don’t want bubbles, then the finished command should look like this: “/effect @p 5 10000 255 True”. Then you just press enter.

P.S. How to become INVINCIBLE!

To become INVINCIBLE!, follow the instructions above with these commands;

/effect @p 10 10000 255 True

/effect @p 11 10000 255 True

I hope this comes in handy for you Minecrafters out there!

Ezra

Hello, Ezra here, and I feel I have to issue a disclaimer.

Hannah wrote a post stating how we can’t actually write about coding because it’s too complicated to put on a blog or whatever. (Man… I probably should have actually read Hannah’s post before I went on a rant on it. Oops.)

Anyway, we found this perfect website to learn Java Script, C++, Python and a bunch of other coding languages! It gives awesome tutorials on how to make your own creations using any of these code languages. It’s called Techrocket, and it has single handedly taught me the basics of Java (not Java Script. I mean, it’s completely obvious that Java is a totally different thing than Java Script.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-QZOlacywc

I have to tell you that this website isn’t all “show” either. I’ve only gotten a little way into the courses on this website and I can tell you that it’s very interesting and helpful. And it’s all %100 BLOG-ABLE! (Bloggable? bloggy? blog compatible? Oh, never mind.)

You guys should try it!

Ezra

I would like to say (since I am much more interested in coding than Ezra is) that sadly there isn’t really anything to write about. I want to learn Java, one of the basic programming languages. Android is based out of Java as is Minecraft.

I can’t just write about coding the same way I do about Minecraft commands. For Minecraft, I can write a command in a post, let you copy and paste it into your game and suddenly you have something amazing. Commands are little pieces of code that take only one line to make something cool happen, and anyone who has the game can make it happen.

With coding, it takes several lines of code to do anything at all and only people with the right software can make it work, and you have to understand exactly what everything does to make it work. You can’t just copy and paste a line of code into something else and make it work.

I can’t really tell you what I can do with Java because it doesn’t relate to anything else. It won’t matter to you until I can make a video game or something cool that actually makes sense.

I will make sure I let you know when I can do anything cool but until then,thank you for reading everything we write and please let me know if there is something you’re interested in and would like to hear more about.

Hannah

Hello, Ezra here.

One thing you guys should know; one of my biggest goals for this year is to create an original scary Minecraft map and a matching resource pack.

I was originally inspired to do this by an amazing Minecraft horror map created by “Xander369” and “Charlie-309” called Alien: A Crafter’s Isolation [Insert preferred cliche scary noise here]. It is a Minecraft reconstruction of Alien: Isolation (which I have not played), which is a video game based on the 1979 film Alien (which I have not watched). I first saw it in the narration by Paulsoaresjr, famous Minecraft Youtuber. To see the four-part miniseries narration, click This incredibly convenient provided link right here or the example provided at the bottom of this post or on the “Other people’s stuff we happen to like” page. Be warned though; it is a horror map. Some may find the videos scary (duh), especially the first time they watch it. I’m totally over it now, but the first time I saw this map in play I was freaked. And same thing for the first time I played it. So… be warned.

Right now, I hope to have made a completely original Minecraft Horror map and resource pack by the end of this school year. Right now, my plot line idea is to- no, wait! I’m going to be terrible and leave you all wondering what my plot idea is! HAHAHAHAHA! Why? Well, either because the plot line is not fully developed, I don’t think you guys care, or I’m just plain crazy. Take your pick, because they’re all true. (Oh shoot- I don’t think I should have said that.)

Anyways, I am also learning different command systems so I can use them on my map. If you can suggest useful command strings I could use on my map, I might write a post on how to create a land bound, peaceful ghast!

Thank you, and attempt to stay sane (or don’t. I don’t care.),

Ezra

Hello. Ezra here.

I wanted to ask all the Minecrafters reading this post (or the people who don’t play Minecraft for some incomprehensible reason [translation: buy Minecraft.]) a question: What is the smallest entity in Vanilla Minecraft?

Bat? Nuh-uh. Endermite? No. Baby chicken? Nope. Particle effects? Not even close. Give up?

The answer is…. WitherBoss {NoAI:1,Invul:879}

…..

Man. I can almost hear the crickets chirping.

As the command-savvy Minecrafters reading this may have guessed, the writing above is the format for a command. This particular command is a command string I figured out that makes a tiny statue version of the terrifying boss known as the Wither. I am going to write a walk through of this command string for the less command-savvy readers.

The command is typed out like this:

To start writing a command, just push the backslash button (/) and you can start typing your command. /summon will prepare you to summon an entity, and the word WitherBoss will specify that the entity you want to summon is a Wither. (Or you can type Pig or Bat or EntityHorse or VillagerGolem or whatever other entity instead of WitherBoss, but  this command won’t make anything but the Wither tiny.) the wavy lines (~ ~ ~) are coordinates in relation to the source in an X Y Z format. So if I wrote ~ ~2 ~, the Wither would two blocks above my head. If I wrote ~ ~-2 ~, the Wither would spawn two blocks below me.

Now comes the most important bit. If you do this wrong, then you are almost guaranteed to have a super-powerful, flying, explosive-throwing monster bombing your world. So PAY ATTENTION!

{NoAI:1} means no artificial intelligence. It means you are spawning in a variant of the Wither: a version with no brain. This good for you, because a Wither with it’s brain still in it’s head is a psychotic pyromaniac who flies and makes things (“things” being you, your friends and your pets) go boom.

Finally, we come to the ,Invul:879} part of the command. This is the part that makes the Wither tiny. What it is saying is that this Wither is in stage 879 of growth, counting down to adulthood.

This is what you get:

Can you see the little black spec in between the top and left hand notches of the cross hairs? You can? THAT’S the Wither, and I think any optometrist would agree with me that if you can see it, you do not need glasses. It took me a LONG TIME to see this little sucker the first time. This is a larger version of what you have just seen (or not seen, as the case may be).

Something that the readers should know: I lied about this being the smallest entity in Minecraft. It is the smallest version o this entity that I could still see. You can make a version even SMALLER than this!

There is one more, crucially important step to creating this extraordinary creature: decide that it’s name is Squishy and call it that forever. If you do not know why you have named this potential psychotic killing machine Squishy, watch the Pixar classic Finding Nemo. If you do not know what Finding Nemo is, please locate the nearest eight-year-old with awesome parents and ask him about it. Anyway, name him Squishy.

Also note: It is completely normal for this creature to make weird noises, smoke and bubble and possibly change which direction it is facing. It is NOT normal or it to grow drastically, flash, change color, explode, take damage, move or act hostile in any way. These are the behaviors of a fully functioning Wither Boss, who, as I may have mentioned earlier, Is a homicidal Boss monster that wants to kill you. If your tiny Wither starts acting like this, I reeeeeeaaaaly strongly suggest you use this command against it:

If done right, this will kill all the Withers in your world. If done wrong, It will most likely become an unavoidable and unstoppable doomsday device and will instantly kill every living thing currently existing in your world (namely every player, every living thing within a large radius of that player and possibly anything living anywhere any player has previously stepped foot).

So FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS. Okay? Cool.

Ezra

Hannah here,

If you play Minecraft, then you know that sometimes you will see a “Spider Jockey” (a skeleton riding a spider) or a baby zombie riding a chicken. If you don’t play Minecraft, then this article won’t be of much use to you and I ask you to please consider looking at one of our other posts.

You only ever see animals or mobs riding each other in these two instances. But you can use a certain command to make any animal ride another.

If you type (make sure you copy this exactly):

/summon Skeleton ~ ~ ~ {Riding:{id:Spider}}

… into your chat bar, that will make a Spider Jockey, so if you type:

/summon Rabbit ~ ~ ~ {Riding:{id:Chicken, Riding:{id:Bat}}}

… into your chat bar, do you know what that makes? A bunny riding a chicken riding a bat! (Come on, tell me that’s not awesome.) You have now made an Animal Stack. You can replace these with any animals you want, as long as you keep the right format:

/summon Cow ~ ~ ~ {Riding:{id:Pig, Riding:{id:Bat}}}

Which creates this:

Just as long as you remember that the animal on the bottom of the Stack is in charge, so if your bottom animal is a bat then your Stack will fly away. And if you put a pig on the bottom then your Stack will follow carrots.

Tip: If you add, {NoAI:1} into the command ( /summon Bat ~ ~ ~ {NoAI:1, Riding:{id:Pig}} ) than it makes the bat into a statue, it won’t move. You have to add it in after each animal individually to make them all into statues,
( /summon Bat ~ ~ ~ {NoAI:1, Riding:{id:Pig, NoAI:1}} ) doing this makes for great pictures or awesome museums.

To summon just one entity at a time or to learn other Vanilla Minecraft commands, go to DigMinecraft.com. They have a nice list of commands with easy to follow instructions for actually using them.

Hannah