Minecraft – Can scoreboard triggers be disabled

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Story

The trigger scoreboard type is used to allow players, even without cheats, to modify their value of a scoreboard objective. By typing /scoreboard players enable <playerName> <objective> this will allow that player, even without cheats, to use /trigger to change their scoreboard value. After triggering, that trigger is disabled again until the enable command is typed again.

Problem

While there is a command /scoreboard players enable, there isn't a /scoreboard players disable. In other words, I can't disable a trigger that has previously been enabled, and now I have to hope that the player doesn't find out and use /trigger, or it will break my map.

Core question

Can scoreboard triggers be disabled? If so, how?

Best Answer

You can't directly disable scoreboard triggers, but you can instead trick Minecraft into thinking that the player used /trigger, using /execute.

execute as @p trigger myObjective add 0

This command will disable the trigger of the nearest player. Because the /trigger is being executed by the nearest player, this makes Minecraft think that they use their trigger.

Related Solutions

Minecraft – Vanilla Minecraft – Detect various /trigger outputs

You can use scoreboard in player selectors to find out which one they clicked. Usually this is done by either testfor or execute.

I recommend a 20 t/s clock to check these as soon as they click it. You don't have to use one, but it may help. great method to setup one.

In the case of testfor, it is actually not recommended to use it. You can't exactly distinguish which player clicked it, you just know that it was clicked. A better way is the execute method. Never-the-less, the command should look like this:

Testfor @a[score_test=1,score_test_min=1]

You will need a comparator to get if it succeeded to find it. You should also have a separate command block for each, then change the 1 to another number for each possible outcome.

In the case of execute: recommended method. You can use @p in the command part to target that specific player. Command as follows:

Execute @a[score_test=1,score_test_min=1] ~ ~ ~ <command>

For this, you should set their score of that to 0 as soon as the command is run, otherwise that command may be run twice.

Minecraft – How to check to see if a scoreboard objective is not greater than a certain integer in Minecraft command blocks

There is no score_points_max argument. The score_points argument selects entities with scores less than or equal to the value. Therefore, the solution is

testfor @a[score_points=0]

However, this will not work for players with no score at all. You will need to use

scoreboard players add @a points 0

to give players with no score a score of zero. Alternatively, you could tag players once they max out their score, and only apply the trigger to players without the tag.