Legitimoose – Minecraft Right Click Detection [1.19] Several Ways

What if I told you there was a method of detecting  right clicks, that was easier to set up than the   carrot on a stick. Hey! If you clicked on  this video, I am going to assume that you’re  

Interested in learning how to detect when someone  presses the right mouse button. In the video game   Minecraft, using only the commands provided  in game. Now mojang has made this really hard,   because for some reason they just they don’t  want data pack creators to have access to core  

Functions of the game like clicking or pressing  buttons. That would be too much power. So   all the ways to detect right click are a little  bit jank, and have their own pros and cons. So in  

This video I’m gonna go over all the ones that I’m  aware of, and tell you when you should use them,   what they’re good for, and what they’re  not good for. So to start off we’re going   to be going with the classic right-click  detection method of going into your controls  

Setting the 9th hot bar slot to right-click and  then, when a player right-clicks you just detect   when their slot is on number nine and um…  Okay on to the real stuff. Let’s start with   the method all the cool kids are raging about.  Carrot on a stick. Now, why should you use a  

Carrot on a stick to detect right clicks? Well,  it’s got its own spot in the statistics page,   you can see I’ve used the carrot on a stick  1526 times, which means we can detect that   number with commands and whenever it goes up  we do something. This is as simple as adding a  

Scoreboard with “/scoreboard objectives add carrot  minecraft.used:minecraft.carrot_on_a_stick”.   Then if we set that to display on the sidebar  with: “/scoreboard objectives set display sidebar   carrot”, and we right click with the carrot on  a stick, you can see we have a score of 1. Every  

Time we right click that’s going to go up 1 more,  but before I go and show you how to do that in a   data pack let’s just uh let’s just uh. Let’s just  consider for a moment the oft-forgotten warped  

Fungus on a stick. Carrot on a stick is great.  It’s a good way to detect things, but it has one   fatal flaw. Which is that pigs will be attracted  to you when you’re holding it. So if you’re  

Planning on retexturing this to an awesome sniper  rifle and, every time you hold it out around pigs   they just follow you around uh that’s that’s not  gonna be so good. no no no no no. Many people opt  

To use the warped fungus on a stick, which leaves  pigs completely neutral, however good old striders   will still be attracted to you. How often do you  see striders versus how often do you see pigs?   You gotta pick one if you want to go this method.  Although there are other methods later that don’t  

Involve any of these problems I’ll get to those.  So how do you go about actually detecting when   this nice old carrot thing on the sidebar goes up?  Well I’ll show you, it’s real simple. You’re gonna   want to make yourself a nice datapack, just  make one here called “right click detection”.  

Put in your pack and make sure the pack format  is correct. If you don’t know how to do any of   this stuff, check out my data pack tutorial up in  the top right. Okay, I’ve finished setting up my  

Data pack, following my own tutorial. Here I am in  my load.mcfunction it’s always good form to just   create your objectives in here. I’m adding the  carrot scoreboard every time just just because.   Over here in your tick.mcfunction,  or any kind of repeating command,  

We’re going to just use a simple execute  command. “execute as @a if score @s matches 1..”   If you’re not sure about all this execute stuff,  I’ve got an execute tutorial. And then we’re just   gonna add “run say Click!”. So this should, if  they have clicked their carrot at least once,  

It should say click in the chat. So let’s go  in game. Now you can see our chat is absolutely   filled with the word Click!, if I say something it  it’s just gone. That’s because we’re never setting  

Our carrot score back to zero, it’s just staying  above 1 at all times, so let’s fix that. Here in   our tick.mcfunction we’re actually going to break  this carrot thing out into its own function. So if  

They have more than one click, then we’re going to  call function:carrot. A fun thing you can do with   the Data Pack Helper+ extension in VSCode is you  can hit control + period, to open up this little   dialog box on a function you haven’t created.  And then just click create tutorial carrot in  

The same data pack, and there it is. It’s just  been automatically generated for us. Now in here,   this is where we are now going to say Click!,  and then we are going to set our scoreboard back  

To zero “scoreboard players reset @s carrot”. Now  I’m using reset not set 0. This is not a big deal,   I just like this more. It doesn’t technically  set it to 0 it sets it to nothing. So now if we  

Go in game and reload after saving. You’ll see  we say Click! once and then it stops. So let’s   test this out with our carrot. Every time we click  you can see it appears on the scoreboard for like   0.1 seconds. We’re detecting right clicks, it’s  amazing! You can now run whatever code you want  

In our carrot.mcfunction here. You could summon  a sheep. [excited noises] oh. Actually you can’t   summon a sheep, because we’re missing an @s.  I’ve used data packs before. We had to set our   position here with “at @s”. Now we can summon a  sheep, amazing. One of the most popular things  

For certain kinds of map making is to put the  carrot or fungus in your offhand only when   you’re holding a certain item. So if you want  to detect when you’re holding, say a diamond,   just make it so whenever you select the diamond  the carrot on a stick magically appears in your  

Offhand. And then you can just texture it so  that there is absolutely nothing in your offhand,   and you just hide the slot. The commands for it  pretty much just look like this. You can copy and   paste the commands from the description. Okay,  that’s enough of carrot- and fungus on a stick  

Type detection. Let’s get into the more spicier  stuff. Hey you know it just occurred to me,   that not everybody has this button bound to right  click. Maybe I should call this a use item / place   block detection tutorial. You know what else not  everyone has done? Subscribe to the legitimoose  

Channel on youtube.com/legitimoose. That’s right,  it’s me, you’re watching legitimoose. Please   press gently the subscribe button, with whichever  button or key you have bound to main click. There   are a couple of archaic methods that involve  detecting right clicks on entities, such as a   villager. There is a scoreboard statistic called “minecraft.custom:minecraft.talked_to_villager”,  

And you can use this to detect whenever you  open the trade menu of a villager. But wait,   it gets better. Even if a villager like this  doesn’t have any trades, it will still count   as talking to the villager in the sidebar over  here. So we can actually detect whenever you talk  

To a villager. This is useful for when you don’t  want to be tied to a specific item, like a carrot   or fungus on a stick, but rather tied to like a  specific location. We summon a villager here that  

Is NoAi and Silent with this command, command in  the description. Whenever we right click this guy   we’ll be able to get our number up. Now we could  put him, for example, inside a block that we want  

To detect right clicks on. Of course you’d want  to make this guy invisible, but I trust you know   how to do that. The commands for this method are  virtually identical to the commands for the carrot  

On a stick section. So just do that, but change  out every instance of “carrot on a stick” with   “talked_to_villager”, and you’ve got yourself a  working right click detection. Okay, what’s next?   There is a certain circumstance where the best  kind of right-click detection you can have,  

Is detecting when you give an item to an armor  stand. So I’d like you to think to yourself:   What advantages could this have over the other  methods? The main one is that you can detect what   item you right-clicked with. So if I right-click  with a flower, I can now detect that this armor  

Stand is holding a flower which means obviously  somebody right clicked on it. Now, a slightly   more difficult question is who is that somebody?  The answer is it’s actually pretty much impossible   to find out with a hundred percent certainty as  far as I’m aware. Your best bet is just gonna be  

The nearest player, but if you’re in multiplayer,  this has a high chance of being jank, but if you   want to detect when an armor stand is holding  an item this is the command for it. “execute as   @e[type=armor_stand,nbt={HandItems:[{id:”minecraft:poppy”},{}]}]  

At @s run whatever code you want to”. This is  quite a big chunk of code to be writing off the   top of your head. Like I just did, So I’ve put it  down in the description for you to copy and paste  

And write whatever you want into it. And it’s not  my favorite, but it is popular. I’ve seen that   there are other tutorials on youtube that say this  is the way to do it I disagree. What if I told you  

There was a method of detecting right clicks that  was easier to set up than the carrot on a stick.   Several times faster, more precise, and more lag  friendly. That’s right, we’re gonna talk about   the black sheep of right-click detection. Ender  eye detection. First off, why would you want to  

Detect the right click of an ender eye over right  clicking with a carrot on a stick or a fungus on a   stick? It is fast. Now, what does that even mean?  Well keep an eye on that scoreboard on the right  

Side of the screen. If I hold down right click  with a carrot on a stick, you can see it increases   at a moderate pace, but if I wanted to detect  whether or not I am holding down right click right  

Now that would be kind of a challenge. Now let’s  switch over to this eye of ender I’ve rigged up   and hold down the right click button. Now  it increases the number every single tick. 20 ticks per second baby. How do you set this up?  There’s not a scoreboard objective for detecting  

Throwing an eye of ender. What you have to  do, is use an advancement. Good old reliable   misode.github.io, link in the description.  All right, here we are. We’re going to just   slap together an ender eye detection thingy.  Under criteria I’m going to type in a name.  

Eye… Doesn’t really matter. Hit the plus button.  Then I’m going to select my criteria down here,   scroll to the bottom. Weirdly enough, it’s  not “used under eye”. That is not going to   work for our purposes. No no, you want  “using item”. Add a condition, and add  

An item to that condition. Then click the plus  next to items and type in “minecraft:ender_eye”.   Alright this is our advancement, this is going to  activate whenever we right click with an eye of   ender. Now in order to have this call a function,  we have to add a reward. Which right here,  

There is a spot called function. You can name  your function anything you want, just make sure   it’s the same in your data pack. Then we’re gonna  go over here, copy our advancement go into ye olde   visual studio code. And maybe add a scoreboard  for this. “scoreboard objectives add eye dummy,  

Just in our load.mcfunction. Now if you don’t  have an advancements folder in your namespace,   you’re going to need to create one. Click on your  namespace and make sure functions is not selected,   the namespace. And add a  folder called advancements.  

Inside this create a folder call it I don’t know  eye.json, and paste in your advancement. Beautiful   we got some errors over here, those are not real.  Now we’re going to create our function called   eye.mcfunction, and in here is the code that’s  gonna run whenever we right click. So the first  

Thing you have to do is reset the advancement.  Because you can only get an advancement once. So   after you have received it, you’ll just have to  reset it. In this case with “advancement revoke   @s only tutorial:eye”, or whatever your function  was called. Then we can do whatever code we want.  

In this case I’ll just do “scoreboard players  add @s eye 1”. Now in game I’m gonna reload,   set eye to my sidebar and hold down right click.  And there we go, it’s counting, up every time we   right click it does that. You don’t really have  to bother with resetting the score here because  

You don’t even need to track a score. You could  just, oh, you could summon a sheep every time.   There we go. This is true power. So now  that I’ve taught you the perfect method of   right-click detection, let me just quickly tell  you why this is pretty obviously not the perfect  

Method of right-click detection. It’s an eye of  ender, you throw it it goes to the stronghold!   It gets consumed when you right-click,  this doesn’t work in survival. Shhhh. It only works in worlds that doesn’t have a  stronghold. You will see that me right-clicking,  

Shows up in the chat. It works perfectly, it  doesn’t consume the item, it doesn’t get thrown   towards the stronghold. That’s because there  is no stronghold in this super flat world.   If you ever want to use your data pack in  a world that has a stronghold. If you’re  

Making something for normal survival,  uh yeah, that’s not gonna work. Okay   now you’re a right-click detection god.  Uh, see you in the next one Bye-Bye 🙂