Summon armorstands recursively from an origin with only one armorstand per block
I want to summon a flat area of armorstands like demonstrated here in minecraft 1.9:
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Every number represents an armorstand, the number itself the tick in which the armorstand was summoned. Ofcourse I would add a limitation to this myself to prevent the mechanism to spawn infinite amounts of armorstands.
My problem is to only spawn one armorstand on each block, here's what I have so far. This spawns more than one armorstand on each block. First a single armorstand is placed in the world, then the following chain is executed by a repeating command block:
/execute @e[type=ArmorStand,name=move] ~ ~ ~ /summon ArmorStand ~1 ~ ~ {NoGravity:1b,CustomName:"move"}
/execute @e[type=ArmorStand,name=move] ~ ~ ~ /summon ArmorStand ~-1 ~ ~ {NoGravity:1b,CustomName:"move"}
/execute @e[type=ArmorStand,name=move] ~ ~ ~ /summon ArmorStand ~ ~ ~1 {NoGravity:1b,CustomName:"move"}
/execute @e[type=ArmorStand,name=move] ~ ~ ~ /summon ArmorStand ~ ~ ~-1 {NoGravity:1b,CustomName:"move"}
I would also be fine with a solution which temporarily spawns more than one armorstand per block, but it should leave a area of one armorstand per block behind. If you think that this is impossible it would be nice if you could leave a comment.
Best Answer
Summon the armorstands first, this will create some overlap, which will need to be removed.
This is quite easy, just let every armorstand set a score of one armorstand in each pile, and kill those without the score.
scoreboard players set @e[name=move] temp 0
execute @e[name=move] ~ ~ ~ scoreboard players set @e[r=0,c=1] temp 1
kill @e[name=move,score_temp=0]
This works because all the armorstands in each pile will select only one armorstand among them, the oldest one.
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Answer 2
I see your problem! Where you have
/execute @e[type=ArmorStand,name=move] ~ ~ ~ /summon ArmorStand ~1 ~ ~ {NoGravity:1b,CustomName:"move"}
The first 3 ~ ~ ~ are the coordinates where they spawn, ~ ~ ~ is set as default in front of you. Change the coordinates to where you what them to have move to. I may be wrong but hey, its worth a try!
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