How can you give a player fireworks?

Question

I'd like to give some firework items to a player, using a dispenser, or via some similar mechanism. How can I do this? Is it possible?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, when using a dispenser, the fireworks leave the dispenser armed, so that isn't much good.

Also becuase the fireworks all share an ID, 401, command blocks can't be used (it just spawns a firework with no explosion in it).

You can however use spawners to spawn the dropped item entity (one of Seth Bling's scripts can be used) but these are harder to control, and limiting the amount of items the player gets can be tricky.

Note this technique can be used to spawn any custom item, such as enchanted weapons and custom potions.

Answer 2

The upcoming Dropper block in Minecraft 1.5 will likely be usable for this purpose. It acts exactly like a dispenser, except that it always gives items rather than activating them, so it will not launch fireworks.

Answer 3

Because fireworks have weird metadata I made a tool to make fireworks easy. They are saved as kits so if you want players to have them, just give them access to the kit. You can find the tutorial at

and the download link will be in the description.

It's really simple to make complex and custom fireworks using this method.

Answer 4

If you're playing on a CraftBukkit server, the Essentials plugin has a /firework command. You could give your players fireworks through the /give (item code 401) command and then let the players "customise" the fireworks with the /fireworks command.

The syntax for the command is (and will be applied to the stack of fireworks currently held in-hand)

/firework color:color fade:color shape:shape effect:effect

You can choose three colours for the inital burst using /firework color:red,blue,green. You can also choose the shape by using /firework shape:star,ball,large,creeper,burst (one of those 5) and change the effect with /firework effect:trail,twinkle. Power (flight) settings can be ajusted with /firework power:1,2,3

So, do a /give 401 for 64 fireworks, and then for a firework which bursts red, blue and green, does a large ball effect, twinkles/crackles and has maximum flight height you can use:

/firework color:red,blue,green shape:ball effect:twinkle power:3

Answer 5

I have not tried this yet but I was thinking you could do this with a few Bukkit plugins - WorldEdit, Citizens, and Denizen.

1. Create a chest and fill with the various fireworks you wish to give out.
2. Using WorldEdit copy and save the chest as a schematic.
3. Using Citizens and Denizen create a script that creates and uses a NPC (Non-Playable Character) to ask and offer the fireworks to players.
4. In the Denizen script loads and reloads the chest schematic each time a player interacts with the NPC or just automatically reloads the chest after a set period of time.

I believe this should work as Denizen scripts allow you to load WorldEdit schematics.

Answer 6

You may leave it in a chest. then he will get it.