Help with a vanilla command, please?

[Flexico]

Could someone please tell me why this doesn't work?

/summon minecraft:item ~ ~1 ~ {item:{id:"minecraft:diamond",tag:{display:{name:"\"Artificial Diamond\""}}}}

 

[lenscas]

what does the error say?
my guess is that the {} stuff is json and thus the keys (item, id, tag, name) should be in quotes. Also, "\"Artificial Diamond\"" looks wrong and probably should just by "Artificial Diamond" unless you want the name to be

"Artificial Diamond"

instead of

Artificial Diamond

 

[Flexico]

Ok, I tried:

/summon minecraft:item ~ ~1 ~ {"Item":{"id":"minecraft:diamond","tag":{"Display":{"Name":"Artificial Diamond"}}}}

and it still just gave me "Unable to summon entity."

I tried playing with word capitalization too; no go.

 

[lenscas]

actually.... can you even summon an item? I'm not sure you can.

Why not use /give instead?

 

[Flexico]

Well, this is just part of a command that will be part of a command block contraption. I had it working in 1.12, but have to change the syntax for 1.13. /summon worked before.

In case you're curious, it allows you to compress a coal block into a diamond by surrounding it with TNT and blowing it up. This is the command that summons the diamond right after the explosion.

 

[lenscas]

so... googled "minecraft summon command generator 1.13" and found https://www.digminecraft.com/generators/summon_mob.php
it may not be able to generate one for items but maybe it is a start?
Below is it summoning a vex which should have the name "test"
/summon vex ~ ~1 ~ {CustomName:"\"test\""}

 

[LordPINE]

You should probably try using MCStacker: https://mcstacker.net/
It's always been of great use with making summon commands.

By the way, "item" should be "Item". Capitalization matters.

 

[Flexico]

Oohh, MCStacker is very helpful!