tellraw

tellraw

overview

/tellraw sends JSON messages to players

syntax

syntax is /tellraw <targets> <message>

selector

selectors for tellraw are <playername>, @a, @s, @r, @p, and any kind of selector within e.g. @a[count=1]
tellraw can be sent to any player, excluding all other entities

displaying numbers

to do numbers do /tellraw <targets> <number>

/tellraw @a 0134342342

/tellraw @s 25

/tellraw @r 5.5

/tellraw @p 0

/tellraw Eggy115 -3

/tellraw @a -3.221

these all just display numbers

basic text

to display simply text use /tellraw <targets> ["<text>"] or /tellraw <targets> "<text>"
it has to be ", ' will not work

/tellraw @a "hello"

/tellraw Eggy115 ["yeah, whooo"]

to add multiple lines, use \n

/tellraw @s "\nline 1\nline 2"

to escape characters, use \

/tellraw @a "hello \"world\" "

you can also do \u00a7 which is section sign (§) so you can get colours and effects

/tellraw @a ["\u00a70BLACK TEXT"]
/tellraw @a ["\u00a71DARK BLUE TEXT"]
/tellraw @a ["\u00a72DARK GREEN TEXT"]
/tellraw @a ["\u00a73DARK AQUA TEXT"]
/tellraw @a ["\u00a74DARK RED TEXT"]
/tellraw @a ["\u00a75DARK PURPLE TEXT"]
/tellraw @a ["\u00a76GOLD TEXT"]
/tellraw @a ["\u00a77GREY TEXT"]
/tellraw @a ["\u00a78DARK GREY TEXT"]
/tellraw @a ["\u00a79BLUE TEXT"]
/tellraw @a ["\u00a7aLIGHT GREEN TEXT"]
/tellraw @a ["\u00a7bLIGHT AQUA TEXT"]
/tellraw @a ["\u00a7cRED TEXT"]
/tellraw @a ["\u00a7dLIGHT PURPLE TEXT"]
/tellraw @a ["\u00a7eYELLOW TEXT"]
/tellraw @a ["\u00a7fWHITE TEXT"]
/tellraw @a ["\u00a7lBOLD TEXT"]
/tellraw @a ["\u00a7oITALIC TEXT"]
/tellraw @a ["\u00a7mSTRIKETHROUGH TEXT"]
/tellraw @a ["\u00a7nUNDERLINED TEXT"]
/tellraw @a ["\u00a7kOBFUSCATED TEXT"]
/tellraw @a ["\u00a7rRESET TEXT"]

and you can combine them too

/tellraw @a ["\u00a7a\u00a7bBOLD AND GREEN TEXT"]
/tellraw @a ["\u00a7b\u00a7aONLY GREEN TEXT"]
/tellraw @a ["\u00a74Red text\nNewline\n\u00a7aGreen text"]

or you can use to get other fancy symbol

/tellraw @r "\u00b9\u00b2\u00b3" (¹²³)

json text

javascript object notation is special text

• COLOUR = black:0, dark_blue:1, dark_green:2, dark_aqua:3, dark_red:4, dark_purple:5, gold:6, light_gray:7, gray:8, blue:9, green:a, aqua:b, red:c, light_purple:d, yellow:e, white:f
• EFFECTS = reset:r, bold:l, italic:o, underlined:n, strikethrough:m, obfuscated:k

display types

display types are what kind of thing you are displaying

text

to display simple text use

{"text":"text"}

translate

to translate messages use

/tellraw @p {"translate":"value","fallback":"fallback","with":["with"]}

keybind

to show keybind thay player has for certain action

/tellraw @p {"keybind":"key.jump"}

in this example you look at their keybind for the action key.jump, which will usually print Space

objective

to display object use score. name is name of the person you want to show. objective is the scoreboard you are keeping track of.

/tellraw @p {"score":{"name":"@p","objective":"Kills"}}

selector

any kind of selector can be used e.g. @p, @a, and it will replace it with the appropriate information.

/tellraw @p {"selector":"@p"}

nbt

for entity's information

/tellraw @p {"nbt":"value","entity":"entity","interpret":true/false}

for a block's nbt

/tellraw @p {"nbt":"value","block":"~ ~ ~","interpret":true/false}

for storage

/tellraw @p {"nbt":"value","storage":"storage","interpret":true/false}

normal text

to display normal text the proper way, use {"text":"message here"}

/tellraw Eggy115 {"text":"hello"}
/tellraw @a {"text":"this is a fun message"}

to display multiple sections of text, use []

/tellraw @a [{"text":"hello"},{"text":" world"}]

colour

to have colour, use {"text":"put your text here","color":"put colour here"}

/tellraw @a {"text":"hello","color":"green"}

hex code colour

to make colours with hex code, replace the colour with # and then the hex code

/tellraw @p {"text":"hex code","color":"#FF0000"}

effects

to add effects like bold use {"text":"text here","effect":"true/false"}

/tellraw @s {"text":"epic","bold":"true"}

combining

note: it is not just text that can use colours and effects
selectors, translate, nbt, etc. can all be colourised

to have both colour and effects

/tellraw Eggy115 {"text":"text","color":"red","italic":"true"}

to have multiple colours

[{"text":"helloooo ","color":"gold"},{"text":"more text","color":"blue"}]

and to have multiple colours and effects

[{"text":"some text here","color":"blue","underlined":"true"},{"text":" and more text","color":"light_purple","obfuscated":"false"}]

web links

to have web link

/tellraw @r {"text":"url","clickEvent":{"action":"open_url","value":"https://github.com/Eggy115"}}

run command

run command

/tellraw @p {"text":"run command","clickEvent":{"action":"run_command","value":"say hello"}}

suggest command

suggest command or message

/tellraw @s {"text":"suggest command","clickEvent":{"action":"suggest_command","value":"/say hello"}}

copy

copy to clipboard

/tellraw @a {"text":"copy to clipboard","clickEvent":{"action":"copy_to_clipboard","value":"i just got copied"}}
/tellraw @a {"text":"copy to clipboard","clickEvent":{"action":"copy_to_clipboard","value":"\u00a7"}}
/tellraw @a {"text":"copy to clipboard","clickEvent":{"action":"copy_to_clipboard","value":"\u00b9\u00b2\u00b3"}}

hoverEvent

show_text

show text

/tellraw @p {"text":"hover","hoverEvent":{"action":"show_text","contents":[{"text":"hello"}]}}
/tellraw @p {"text":"hover","hoverEvent":{"action":"show_text","contents":[{"text":"green hovertext","color":"green"}]}}

show_item

display item

/tellraw @p {"text":"hover","hoverEvent":{"action":"show_item","contents":"diamond"}}
/tellraw @p {"text":"hover","hoverEvent":{"action":"show_item","contents":"dirt"}}

show_entity

can't get this to work

fonts

to have different fonts

/tellraw @p {"text":"font","font":"minecraft:default"}
/tellraw @p {"text":"font","font":"minecraft:illageralt"}
/tellraw @p {"text":"font","font":"minecraft:alt"}