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So I have tried for a while now to set a custom name for an entity using snapshot 18w02a, but it won't allow it to spawn. the command is: /summon villager ~ ~1 ~-3 {NoAI:1b,Invulnerable:1b,Silent:1b,CustomName:"test",CustomNameVisible:1b,Team:"plr1",Proffesion:0,Career:1,Offers:{Recipes:[]}} When trying to use that all I get is a message that says Unable to summon entity. Does anyone know if maybe it is a formatting change that occurred or if the way you do custom names is different. I looked into the NBT after having tried for a while and found that the tag was still labeled CustomName. So I'm confused as to what has changed.

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In addition to Fabian's answer: The CustomName in 18w02a no longer takes a string as argument, but a json text component. Your tag would look as follows:

CustomName:"{\"text\":\"test\"}"

For all details, I refer you to this minecraft forum post.

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  • I tried that, but without the back slashes. I will give that a try.
    – TrueDakkon
    Jan 17, 2018 at 18:47
  • Interesting. How do you test for it now? Only with NBT?
    – Fabian Röling
    Jan 17, 2018 at 18:58
  • Bäm, congrats to 1000 rep!
    – Fabian Röling
    Jan 17, 2018 at 18:58
  • Works great! and no, you test for it the same way as before. /execute as @p at @s anchored eyes run teleport @e[type=villager,name=test,team=plr1] ^ ^-1.25 ^1.05 You can also add color to the names with the extra tag \"color\":\"color\". So this should make some things much easier to achieve now. The way to do everything feels kinda clunky, but I feel it is an overall great feature. The only way to do color and everything before was via external editing of nbt.
    – TrueDakkon
    Jan 17, 2018 at 19:03
  • But how would you test for an entity that has a translatable text component in its name?
    – Fabian Röling
    Jan 17, 2018 at 19:09
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The problem probably isn't CustomName, it looks correct. But you wrote "Profession" with one F too much.

In cases like this, it's always good to write a shorter command first. If the shorter one works, add parts to it one by one, that way you see what part is problematic.

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  • the problem is the CustomName tag. Without it, everything works just fine. Well, except for profession I guess.
    – TrueDakkon
    Jan 17, 2018 at 18:49

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