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Introduction ​

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Rawtexts are used to send and display rich text to players. This can be used in a /tellraw or /titleraw command.

Inside the squared brackets [], this is where you will list multiple text objects of your choice.

{ "rawtext": [] }

You can combine components by adding a comma , at the end of a component.

Text Component ​

Displays a text. Used inside the quotation marks.

Syntax:

{ "text": "<Your Text Here>" }

Example:

Send a "Hello everyone!" message to all players in chat:

/tellraw @a { "rawtext": [{ "text":"Hello everyone!" }] }

Breaks, Line Breaks, And Unicodes ​

1. Breaks are accessed as \ and are used in order to use quotation marks " within components. Example:

/tellraw @a { "rawtext": [{ "text":"He said, \"I like apples\"..." }] }
#Output in chat:
#    He said, "I like apples"...

2. Line breaks are used as \n to go down a line. Example:

/tellraw @a { "rawtext": [{ "text":"Hello\nNext line" }] }
#Output in chat:
#    Hello
#    Next line

3. Unicodes provides a unique number that displays an icon/emoji. Example:

/tellraw @a { "rawtext": [{ "text":"\ue100" }] }

• Output in chat:
  • 

Note: the unicode symbol will display as it's corresponding icon/emoji in Minecraft only.

For more info and the full list of unicodes available in Bedrock, refer to the Emojis & Symbols page.

Selector Component ​

Displays the name of a target of your choice. Target Selector arguments are allowed.

Syntax:

{ "selector":"<target>" }

Examples:

1. Send name of all players in chat:

/tellraw @a { "rawtext": [{ "selector": "@a" }] }

2. Send name of all players tagged 'wiki:winner' in chat:

/tellraw @a { "rawtext": [{ "selector": "@a[tag=wiki:winner]" }] }

Score Component ​

Displays a score from a scoreboard objective.

Syntax:

{ "score": { "name": "<name>", "objective":"<score>" } }

• name - This can be any selector like @p or a player's name.
  • You can also use the * wildcard to display the reader's own score.
• objective - The name of the scoreboard you want to display the score from.

Both are required when using the score component.

Examples:

1. Display the wiki:points score of the closest player in chat:

/tellraw @a { "rawtext": [{ "score": { "name": "@p", "objective": "wiki:points" } }] }

2. Display the wiki:money score of the reader in chat:

/titleraw @a title { "rawtext": [{ "score": { "name": "*", "objective": "wiki:money" } }] }

Translate Component ​

Allows creators to display localized text to users. The list of the strings to translate is inside in the language files. Refer to Text & Translations page for more info.

Syntax:

{ "translate": "<string>" }

Example:

/tellraw @a { "rawtext": [{ "translate": "multiplayer.player.joined" }] }
#Output in chat:
#    %s joined the game

In the example above, it outputs "%s joined the game". For a name to appear instead of %s, with needs to be specified as well. Requires an array [] instead of curly brackets {}

/tellraw @a { "rawtext": [{ "translate": "multiplayer.player.joined", "with": ["Steve"] }] }
#Output in chat:
#    Steve joined the game

%%s ​

translate and %s can be used without a matching string in the localization files. For example:

/tellraw @a { "rawtext": [{ "translate": "Hello %%s", "with": ["Steve"] }] }
#Output in chat:
#    Hello Steve

Multiple %%s ​

%%s can be used multiple times. They are filled in the order as shown.

/tellraw @a { "rawtext": [{ "translate": "Hello %%s and %%s", "with": ["Steve","Alex"] }] }
#Output in chat:
#    Hello Steve and Alex

Ordering with %%# ​

The order to fill in %s can be changed by replacing s with a number at the end. For example, to swap the position of Steve and Alex in the above example:

/tellraw @a { "rawtext": [{ "translate": "Hello %%2 and %%1", "with": ["Steve","Alex"] }] }
#Output in chat:
#    Hello Alex and Steve

And instead of an array, you can use a rawtext component, like so.

/tellraw @a { "rawtext": [{ "translate": "Hello %%s and %%s", "with": { "rawtext": [{ "text":"Steve" }, { "translate": "item.apple.name" }] } }] }
#Output in chat:
#    Hello Steve and Apple

Additional example shared by @CornyFlex:

/tellraw @a { "rawtext": [{ "translate": "Role: %%%%s", "with": { "rawtext": [{ "score": { "name": "*", "objective": "wiki:role" } }, { "text":"Member" }, { "text": "Moderator" }, { "text": "Admin" }] } }] }

This structure allows you to display different text to the selected players based on scores.

• Output in chat:
  • Member
    • When 'wiki:role' score of the player equals 1.
  • Moderator
    • When 'wiki:role' score of the player equals 2.
  • Admin
    • When 'wiki:role' score of the player equals 3.

Note: Score must be a positive integer.

How It Works:

• At "%%%%s", the first %% is left invalid because no argument (either "s" or an integer) is provided. As a result, it cannot display a value from the array.
• For the second %%, the argument "s" is provided, which displays the first slot in the array (a {score}).
• Since there is no space between the first %% and the {score} (%%s), the {score} is interpreted as the integer argument for the first %%, making it valid.
• This allows the score to dynamically change the index of the slot to be displayed.