Minecraft – Why does the item name not show up in 1.13

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I am in 1.13 Pre-Release 7 trying to make a one command creation and I need an item with a specific name. The command I use is /give @p diamond_sword{display:{Name:"Sword of Power"}} and it gives my a diamond sword, but it doesn't have the name.

This is me running the command.

This is the command not working.

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In 1.13 many things are JSON that were previously just simple strings. So the syntax is now:

give @p diamond_sword{display:{Name:"{\"text\":\"Sword of Power\"}"}}

This also means that you can colour the text, make it underlined, translatable, obfuscated, etc.

With Minecraft 1.14, support for single-quoted strings has now been added. This means that you can shorten JSON strings by surrounding them in single quotes ' instead of double quotes:

give @p diamond_sword{display:{Name:'{"text":"Sword of Power"}'}}

Whenever an NBT check doesn't work like you expected, I always recommend /data get. For example in this case you can hold the item and run:

/data get entity @s SelectedItem

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Minecraft – Clear item with custom name

The syntax for clear is as following:

/clear [player] [item] [data] [maxCount] [dataTag]

Your command is as following:

/clear @a torch 1 1 {display:{Name:"Special Torch"}}

You are trying to clear (for everyone in the server) torches with a data value of 1, a max count of 1 and a name of "Special Torch".

Seeing as there are no torches with a data value of 1, try using the following:

/clear @a torch 0 1 {display:{Name:"Special Torch"}}

Minecraft – How to test for an hold item name in Minecraft

You can actually combine this into one command. Prior to 1.13, this would look like this:

/testfor @p[r=10] {SelectedItem:{id:"minecraft:diamond_sword",tag:{display:{Name:"Item Name"}}}}

This will return an output if the player is holding a named diamond sword in the selected slot.

However, the above command has been completely deprecated in 1.13. testfor is now Bedrock only, and the [r=] selector has been changed. You also can't really do anything with this testfor anyway, all it does is give a redstone output. A better and updated version for Java Edition 1.13 would be something along the following lines:

/execute at @p[distance=..10, nbt={SelectedItem:{id:"minecraft:diamond_sword",tag:{display:{Name:"Item Name"}}}}] run <your item spawning command>

This command executes <your item spawning command> at the position of a player within 10 blocks that matches the SelectedItem NBT.

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