Minecraft – Primed TNT on summoned mobs

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I want to be able to summon a baby zombie that has a TNT block on its head.
The command I have so far is

/summon Zombie ~ ~1 ~ {IsVillager:0,IsBaby:1,Equipment:[{},{},{},{},     {id:tnt,Count:1}],DropChances:[0.085F,0.085F,0.085F,0.085F,0.0F],Attributes: [{Name:generic.maxHealth,Base:8},{Name:generic.attackDamage,Base:0}]}

However, is there any way to prime that TNT? Im guessing that this would not have anything to do with setting a block over the zombies head, but I do want that for aesthetic value — and to let the player know the zombie is probably going to blow up.

When doing a little research on the subject before coming here, I came across summoning the TNT at the zombies with a fuse of 0 (zero). For me I don't think that this would work, because the TNT would still not stay with/on the zombie, and would just blow up where it was summoned (killing the zombie in the process most likely. Perhaps there is a way to summon the primedTNT when the baby (summoned with the command above) came with one block of the player? If so this also needs to instantly kill the zombie. Any ideas are welcome.

Best Answer

You can't ignite the TNT in the Zombie's head slot, but you can use the Passengers tag to summon the Zombie with PrimedTnt riding it.

Example:

/summon Zombie ~ ~ ~5 {Passengers:[{id:"PrimedTnt", tag:{Fuse:100}}]}

Since the Passengers tag is only really a flag that the /summon command looks for, /entitydata and similar commands won't be able to place a PrimedTnt on the Zombie. This means that if you want a PrimedTnt entity on the Zombie, the only real practical solution is to summon him with the TNT.

If you want a proximity trigger, you could summon a PrimedTnt with a fuse time of 0 at Zombies near Players.

Example:

/execute @e[type=Player] ~ ~ ~ execute @e[type=Zombie,r=1]  ~ ~ ~ summon PrimedTnt ~ ~ ~ {Fuse:0}

We use @e[type=Player] instead of @a to avoid targeting dead players: we likely don't want a Zombie to explode because it's trying to walk over a corpse.

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Minecraft – Summon a PrimedTnt with a very long fuse

This is actually really easy to do, but there's a caveat, which I'll get to. All you need is a scoreboard objective and three commands running off a 20Hz clock.

The scoreboard objective is a timer that allows you to extend the fuse time beyond 127 ticks:

/scoreboard objectives add TNTTimer dummy

The commands running off the 20Hz clock are to increment the score of every PrimedTnt, keep the Fuse from counting down to 0, and finally, once the desired time is reached, blow up the TNT:

scoreboard players add @e[type=PrimedTnt] TNTTimer 1
entitydata @e[score_TNTTimer=200] {Fuse:127b}
entitydata @e[score_TNTTimer_min=200] {Fuse:0b}

If you want different fuse time, simply adjust the value in the second and third command blocks to be 20 times the time in seconds that you want for the fuse.

Now the caveat. The animation for PrimedTnt is such that it can only match up for TNT with the default fuse value of 80 before disappearing. This means that after the animation is finished, but before the TNT actually explodes, the TNT disappears. I don't know of an easy way around this, though there are definitely complicated ways around it.

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