Minecraft – use anvils in Minecraft to give items colorful names

Are you sure you're using the correct Hamachi IP?

On November 19th, all Hamachi IPs everywhere changed. The reason is that the 5.x.x.x IP-space, which Hamachi has always used because it was never in use anywhere else, began to be publicly routed (ie. used).

In a somewhat humorous twist, Hamachi decided to begin using the UK's Ministry of Defense's IP address space, 25.x.x.x, which was also recently in the news for having a block of 4-million IPs they're hoarding to themselves for internal use.

So, in short, all Hamachi IP's now begin with the number 25. Make sure the server you're connecting to does, too. And make sure neither you nor the server are running any software which blocks traffic from those IPs (such as PeerBlock!)

(Also, if the server-ip setting in server.properties is not blank, make sure it to set to the new IP as well. If it is blank, make sure the server has Hamachi set to the default network adapter; see my other answer)

You're close. The command for this particular case would be /give @p wool 1 14 {display:{Name:"Red Wool",Lore:[Bob]}}, which results in:

The format for the lore text is in brackets allows you to add new lines by using commas, as well. In this case, the command is /give @p wool 1 14 {display:{Name:"Red Wool",Lore:[Bob, Joe]}}. This results in:

You can also include multiple words or [] in the lore, but you need to use quotes like /give @p wool 1 14 {display:{Name:"Red Wool",Lore:["Multiple Words"]}}. This results in:

This also works with multiple lines. /give @p wool 1 14 {display:{Name:"Red Wool",Lore:["Multiple Words", "Multiple Lines"]}} results in:

If you are using quotes in your custom lore or name, escape it with \ before the quote. An example command that escapes quotes would be /give @p wool 1 14 {display:{Name:"\"This is in Visible Quotes\"",Lore:["\"Lore with Quotes\""]}}. You can see the result of that command below:

For more information on all the new special data tags you can use, check out this post on the Minecraft Forum.