Minecraft – How to make a wolf angry at a nearby player

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I am in 1.14 and I want to summon in wolves that are angry. summon wolf ~ ~ ~ {Angry:1} Doesn't work, since the wolf must have a specific player to be angry at, which is stored in UUID's I believe. This behavior is unlike Zombie Pigmen, which when set angry become agro at all players. I thought about detecting if a player gets near a wolf, say within 10 blocks, that wolf automatically becomes hostile to that specific player. Is there a way to do this?

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Who a wolf is angry at is not saved in its NBT. I've created this bug report for it now: https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-155036

But you can still do what you want to do, because wolves really don't like snowball fights.
Let's say the player who should be attacked has the tag "attackMe", just to have something to differentiate them. Then you can summon a snowball above the wolf and make that snowball pretend to have been thrown by that player:

execute at @e[type=wolf] run summon snowball ~ ~2 ~
execute at @e[type=wolf] run data modify entity @e[type=snowball,sort=nearest,limit=1] owner.L set from entity @p[tag=attackMe] UUIDLeast
execute at @e[type=wolf] run data modify entity @e[type=snowball,sort=nearest,limit=1] owner.M set from entity @p[tag=attackMe] UUIDMost

Of course you'll probably narrow the selector @e[type=wolf] further, currently this system makes every wolf in the loaded area angry at you.

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Minecraft – How to make a wolf tamed by an arbitrary player using command blocks

I don't know why so many players say this isn't possible. In fact, it is simple!

Just enter this command into a command block:

/summon Wolf ~ ~1 ~ {Owner:Notch}

Of course, the name Notch could be replaced with the player's name that you wanted to have it tamed to. @p does not work! (The command will generate a tamed wolf one block above the command block, tamed to the person of your liking.)

Minecraft – Angry Wolves on Demand!

You cannot make wolves angry at an arbitrary player. What you can do is make them angry at a specific target, but only if you know their name/UUID. For example, causing a snowball with a custom "thrower" (via ownerName tag) to hit a wolf will cause it to become angry at that specified target.

/summon Wolf ~ ~1 ~
/summon Snowball ~ ~5 ~ {ownerName:"Skylinerw"}

However, since a target selector cannot be used here, you must know the name of the player.

In 1.9, when a mob is the passenger of another mob, they will take control of the pathfinding of its host. While this does not include causing the host to attack the target, the rider itself can do that instead.

For example, the following summons a wolf that is being controlled by a zombie. The wolf will get within melee range of the player and the zombie itself will attack. Note that this does not give the wolf the "angry" skin.

/summon Wolf ~ ~1 ~ {Passengers:[{id:"Zombie",Silent:1b,ActiveEffects:[{Id:14b,Duration:2147483647,ShowParticles:0b}]}]}

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