Entity Counter

Introduction ​

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This system allows you to track the total number of players/entities on your world and subsequently execute your desired commands based on the values obtained.

Note: Entities in unloaded chunks will not be tracked. However, players can be tracked regardless.

Setup ​

To be typed in Chat:

/scoreboard objectives add count dummy

If you are working with functions and prefer to have the objective added automatically on world initialisation, follow the process outlined in On First World Load.

System ​

## Reset Previous Count
scoreboard players set * count 0

## Get Current Count (Examples)
### Alive players
execute as @e [type=player] run scoreboard players add AlivePlayers count 1
### Creepers
execute as @e [type=creeper] run scoreboard players add Creepers count 1

## Your Commands Here (Examples)
### Message if 4+ alive players
execute if score AlivePlayers count matches 4.. run title @a actionbar There are more than 4 players on the world.
### Message if 3 or less creepers
execute if score Creepers count matches ..3 run title @a actionbar There are less than 3 creepers on the world.

Here, we are tracking alive players and creepers as examples, but you can track any entity you like and as many as you need. You may also alter the fake-player-names to your preference. Example: 'AlivePlayers' to just 'Players'.

Similarly, we're running /title commands as examples:

• a) when there are 4 or more players 4..
• b) when there are 3 creepers or less ..3

You can modify/expand these as well. Example: a /kill command instead of a /title command.

Explanation ​

1. Command 1: Sets the score to 0 for all fake-player-names in thecount scoreboard objective, including that of any tracked players and entities.
2. Command 2, 3: From each target that you want to track the count of, a score will be added to their corresponding fake-player-name. Thus, obtaining their total count.
   • Example: Creeper mobs to 'Creepers' fake-player-name.
3. Command 4, 5: These are example commands which can be modified / expanded.
   • Based on the total count obtained, we can use the /execute if score condition to run our desired commands when certain values are met.
     • n any number n
     • n.. any number n and above
     • ..n any number n and below
     • n..n1 any number n to any number n1. (smaller number first)

Tick JSON ​

If you are using functions instead of command blocks, the entity_counter function must be added to the tick.json in order to loop and run it continuously. Multiple files can be added to the tick.json by placing a comma after each string. Refer to Functions documentation for further info.

{
  "values": [
    "scoreboards/entity_counter"
  ]
}

If using functions, your pack folder structure will be as follows: