Minecraft – Stacking player on mobs

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Is there a way to stack a player on a mob such as a bat, and then have the player able to control the bat? Like moving up and down? Or is this just not possible yet in vanilla minecraft? Here is what I already know how to do:

/summon <entity> ~ ~ ~ {riding:{id:<entity>}}

Also, how could I make it so when the player wants to get off, they can get off?

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The ability to control entities that you are riding (other than specifically programmed ones like horses) is simply not in the vanilla game. You could technically move it with a lot of teleporting command blocks, but it would not be based on what keys you pressed.

Stacking a player onto a mob directly is also not really possible. However, you could summon a rideable pig, minecart, boat or tamed horse on top of the entity stack, and then just have the player right click on that to get on. Getting off would just be the dismount key. For example:

/summon Boat ~ ~ ~ {riding:{id:Bat}}

/summon MinecartRideable ~ ~ ~ {riding:{id:Bat}}

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Minecraft – “Disguising” the player as a mob

Here is a link to a video demonstrating and giving a tutorial of this: Minecraft: Disguise as a Mob in Vanilla

This method seems to work fairly well judging by the video. Keep in mind, knowledge of command blocks is definitely recommended as they can injure your world if not used correctly.

Minecraft – Making player invincible to mobs, but not other players

Yes, there is a way in the 1.8 snapshots.

Using a RedStone clock give all entities that damage the player a huge weakness effect:

/effect @e[mob id] 18 9999 127

Note that @e targets players and thus so that only mobs get a weakness effect you have to put in an ID for the entity type. You will have to have a few command blocks each for each type of hostile entity(One each for zombies, skeletons, endermen, creepers{change gamerule doMobGriefing to false}, zombie pigmen, ghasts and blazes). This prevents them from doing damage to the player. Note also that if you give them a weakness level of more than 127, it has a negative effect, meaning it will give them basically 127 strength.

Another method that can be used in 1.7.x is giving all the players a resistance effect like you did but weaker, and then giving players a strength effect that overpowers the resistance.
Strength:

/effect @a 5 9999 6

Resistance:

/effect @a 11 9999 4

This will give all players resistance 4 and this is enough to make them invincible to mobs. They will still take hits but will not take any damage. Note: I am not actually sure if Strength 6 is enough to overpower Resistance 4. If it isn't, just give a higher strength. If the Resistance is too low, give them a higher resistance and higher strength. Just look for the balance. :)

A few questions:

Is there a reason you are not making it on Peaceful mode? (I imagine it is so that players don't regenerate health that quickly but you can turn the gamerule naturalRegeneration off)
Is there a reason, if you don't want to turn it to peaceful, why you want to keep gamerule doMobSpawning on?
Are you manually spawning the mobs, i.e. with command blocks? If yes you can modify their attributes to not allow them to damage the player.

So yes, there are ways to do it in vanilla Minecraft.

Hope I helped!

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