I'm creating a game and I need a fill command to have a 50-50 chance of opening one of two gates (Ex. This will be activated when a button is pressed to start game). The obvious choice would to use the @r selector, but I don't know how to apply this to a command block command.
I'm running 1.10.2 and this is only a two player game. (For me and a friend)
An easy way to do this is using a random feature of the game, eg. Dispensers, animal movement, explosions, mob spawning and more. The easiest you can do is:
Fill a dispenser with 2 items - one stackable, one not - a helmet and a dirt block for example.
Put a Weighted Pressure Plate where the Dispenser shoots.
When you power the dispenser, it shoots one of the 2 items. The Pressure Plate will give stronger signal (goes farther) if a helmet (equivalent to a full stack) falls on it then if 1/64th of a stack of dirt falls on it.
Execute a command only if the signal reaches a certain strength.
You can use a "random" number generator by periodically changing the value of a objctive on a fast redstone clock:
(First create the objetcive by /scoreboard objectives add FiftyFifty dummy)
/scoreboard objectives set @a FiftyFifty 0
/scoreboard objectives set @a FiftyFifty 1
So the FiftyFifty objective is 50% of the time equal to 1. To trigger your command, you need to constantly run this command (in a repeat command block):
/testfor @a[score_FiftyFifty_min=1]
And if this command returns true, ecexute your command (in a Chain command block)
