Minecraft – use command blocks to /give me an item with a coloured name?

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Lots of questions from me today. Here is my command so far:

/give @p minecraft:writable_book 1 0 {pages:[""],display:{Name:"Command Book",color:purple}}

I want a simple command book but I'd like it to look nice, with a colored name for when I hover over it in my inventory. I have tried and tried and searched the internet, but without third party sources I cant find a way to spawn it with a colored name within a command block. Can anyone help?

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You'll need to use some external world editor capable of editing a block's NBT data. For example, MCEdit.

Open up the command block's data (method varies by tool; with MCEdit, run the "NBT Edit" filter with the command block selected):

Then, in the "Command" string, paste in a section sign (§) followed by a formatting code corresponding to the colour you want right before the text you want coloured:

When you go back into the game, the command in the block should look like this:

And give books that look like this:

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Add this to your command

{display:{Name:"Test Name"},ench:[{id:19,lvl:1}]}

It will give you a Item with the name "Test Name" with knockback 1.

You use this:

ench[{id:(enchantment_id,lvl:enchantment_level)}]

like that for enchantments. For names, use this:

display:{Name="Name of item"}

Remember to use curly brackets and colons inbetweeen.

If you just need the template for whatever reason, here it is pieced together:

/give @p (item id or minecraft:name) 1 0 {display:{Name:"(Name of item)"}, ench:[{id:(enchant id),lvl(1-sideways 8)},[{id:(enchant id),lvl(1-sideways 8)}, repeat enchant block...]}

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