Minecraft – How to give theself an item that can only be placed on a block with a certain damage value

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I'm currently in the process of making a custom map and I want to add blocks that can only be placed on a certain colour clay.

This is the command I tried using.

/give @p cobblestone 1 0 {CanPlaceOn:["hardened_stained_clay"],Damage:3}

However, even with this command the cobblestone can be placed on any colour of stained clay. What command can I use for placing only on a certain block?

Best Answer

Unfortunately, the CanPlaceOn tag does not support Damage values as of yet. The syntax of that tag will only accept an array of strings that correspond to block names, therefore you cannot make the item be placed only on a specific colour, only hardened clay in general.

Also, you are currently trying to set a Damage value to the block to be placed rather than the block it should be placed on.

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Minecraft – How to make a block only be placed on certain other blocks

From the wiki, about Item NBT tags :

Blocks can be given tags to specify what blocks they may be placed against in Adventure mode [...]

tag: The tag tag.
- CanPlaceOn: Determines which blocks that blocks with this tag can be placed against in adventure mode.

As the give command takes the Item's tag tag as last parameter, you just have to drop your list of blocks in there :

// Give one block of stone that can be placed on grass or dirt
give @p minecraft:stone 1 0 {CanPlaceOn:["minecraft:grass","minecraft:dirt"]}

Or, in 1.13+:

give @p stone{CanPlaceOn:["minecraft:grass","minecraft:dirt"]}

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Try to give to the first gold block a name:

/give @p gold_block 1 0 {display:{Name:"a name"}}

And then run the /clear command like this:

/clear @p gold_block 0 1 {display:{Name:"a name"}}

This command will clear only the golden block that has the name "a name".

Now give your SPECIAL BLOCK, but with another name:

/give @p gold_block 1 0 {CanPlaceOn:[grass],display:{Name:"SPECIAL BLOCK"}}

You need to put another name that the clear command block doesn't affect.