MCPE-16883Unable to summon items
Steps to reproduce
1. Type in chat: /summon item ~ ~ ~
2. Notice no item being summoned
I expected it to summon a stone item just like on PC
I'm in the beta version, sorry if I selected the wrong one as it's somewhat confusing.
Device: GT-N7100
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Created Issue:
Unable to summon items
Steps to reproduce
1. Type in chat: /summon item ~ ~ ~
2. Notice no item being summoned
I expected it to summon a stone item just like on PCI'm in the beta version, sorry if I selected the wrong one as it's somewhat confusing.
Device: GT-N7100
Oops, typo. I meant "to be summonable", not "to not be summonable."
Sorry I assumed you were trying to set a block with commands because you mentioned stone in the description. Could you please give the complete command that you were attempting to run?
The command is in the issue description.
I actually noticed that when I did ~ ~-3 ~ (so I didn't immediately pick it up) a hitbox was spawned on the ground although there was no item.
The /summon command is for entities, not blocks. If you want to spawn in a block with commands, use /setblock or /give.
I know what the summon command does. I wanted to summon an item entity, but that seems to be impossible.
I don't see why this issue was marked as "Working As Intended". Is it a feature that you can't summon item entities? If so, then why does "item" appear as one of the options when typing the summon command?
Items are entities, not blocks. They are most certainly intended to be summonable, as they are and have been for a long time on the PC version. This should be reopened, it's not working anywhere near how it was intended.
OK apologies, I can see that your example command works in the latest release of minecraft (1.10.*) however in the 1.11+ snapshots (where I tested) the command no longer functions without a `Count` value.
Upon further testing in Pocket Edition. it seems that the command "/summon item ~ ~ ~" summons an invisible item that only casts a shadow, which is probably because no item was specified (so probably wai).
I'm not sure of the correct syntax to summon specified items, I'll reopen this for now on this basis, as it doesn't appear that this can be achieved.
There's currently no NBT implemented in MCPE that's accesible in commands so there's no way to specify the item.
Thanks for reopening the issue.
Confirmed for 0.15.90.7
In 0.15.90.8 "item" is gone from the summon list. Attempting to summon will result in an error message "Invalid command syntax"
Closing as FIXED since you now get the "Invalid command syntax" as an error. Assuming the bug here was the shadow you got on the ground when summoning an item and no error message was given. However, blocks are not summon-able only entities according to how the command is functioning in MCPE.
The bug was that you could not summon an item entity even though it was listed as a summon-able one. I didn't notice the shadow myself and that's not what I reported.
Now you just can't summon items. I wouldn't mark it as "Fixed" since the feature just got removed. "Won't Fix" or "WAI" would be actually more fitting now.