On Player Respawn

Introduction #

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This system will run your desired commands on the event that a player respawns from death state.

Setup #

To be typed in Chat:

/scoreboard objectives add respawn dummy

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

System #

#Your Commands Here (example)
execute as @e [scores={respawn=1}] run say I died and respawned.


scoreboard players set @a respawn 1
scoreboard players set @e [type=player] respawn 0

Here we have used an /execute - say command as an example but you can use any command you prefer and as many as you require.

Just make sure to follow the given order and properly use the selector argument @e [scores={respawn=1}] as shown for your desired commands.

Explanation #

• respawn=0 this means the player is alive or had already respawned.
• respawn=1 this means the player died and is now respawning, ie. respawned just now, in the current gametick.
• @a selector will target all players alive/dead so we use it to mark everyone as 1 'respawning'
• @e selector on the other hand will only target players who are alive, so we can use this to mark all alive players 0 'respawned'

Now that respawning players are 1 and respawned players are 0 we can use this knowledge to run our desired commands on the players respawning.

In the system, your desired commands must come before the other 2 commands because players change from death state to alive state along the start of the gametick before commands are run.

Hence; if we were to put them at the end then the other 2 commands would set respawning players score to 0 first and then the commands you want to run won't be able to select those players as our selector argument is @e [scores={respawn=1}] not 0. Using 0 would not work as then it would repeat endlessly even on players who have already respawned.

Tick JSON #

If you are using functions instead of command blocks, the on_player_respawn 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": [
    "on_player_respawn"
  ]
}

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

Note: the scoreboard names (in this case: 'respawn') may end up being used by other people. Appending _ and a set of randomly generated characters after would be a choice that reduces the probability of collisions. Similar technique can be employed for the .mcfunction filenames. Ex:

• respawn_0fe678
• on_player_respawn_0fe678.mcfunction