Zone · Too Many Attributes Handbook

too-many-attributes:zoneentity actionblock action

Runs a block action on every block in a box, sphere or cylinder. Use it with set_fake_block for ghost blocks over an area, or with play_block_crack to crack a whole area. Any block action works, Origins' own included.

The zone is centered on the entity's block (entity action) or the block the action runs on (block action).

Field	Type	Default	Description
`block_action`	Block action	required	What runs on each block.
`block_condition`	Block condition	none	Only blocks matching this get `block_action`. Checked when each block's turn comes.
`shape`	String	`"box"`	`box`, `sphere` or `cylinder`.
`from`, `to`	`{x, y, z}`	none	Box: two corners, offsets from the center, both included, like `/fill`. Left out: a cube reaching `radius` blocks each way.
`radius`	Double	`1`	Box without corners, sphere and cylinder: how far the shape reaches from the center.
`radius_x`, `radius_y`, `radius_z`	Double	none	Box and sphere: a different `radius` on one axis. A sphere with different radii is stretched into an ellipsoid.
`height`	Integer	`1`	Cylinder: its length in blocks. It starts at the center block and runs along `axis` in the positive direction.
`axis`	String	`"y"`	Cylinder: `x`, `y` or `z`. `y` stands it upright, `x` and `z` lay it on its side like a tunnel.
`hollow`	Integer	`0`	Keep only the outer shell, this many blocks thick. `0` is solid.
`x`, `y`, `z`	Integer	`0`	Move the center by this many blocks.
`rotate`	Boolean	`false`	Entity action only: turn the zone with the entity's facing, like `^ ^ ^` in commands (x left, y up, z forward). It snaps to the nearest of north, south, east and west.
`limit`	Integer	`4096`	The most blocks it runs on. The blocks nearest the center go first, so a zone over the limit becomes a smaller version of the shape.
`per_tick`	Integer	`1024`	Blocks handled each tick. A bigger zone carries on over the next ticks. `0` does every block at once.

Sizes: radius 1 is a 3×3×3 cube for box. For sphere it's the same cube without its 8 corners. Radii count half a block extra, like WorldEdit, so spheres look round.
Hollow shapes are closed. A hollow box or sphere is a shell with nothing inside. A hollow cylinder has a top and bottom.
Unloaded chunks are skipped. The zone never loads chunks.
A zone whose bounding box holds more than 2,000,000 blocks does nothing, and the server log says so.
Zones in progress stop when the server restarts.

Example: "Ghost dome". A hollow glass sphere with radius 6 around you, filling only the air, for 10 seconds. Everyone sees it.

json

{
  "type": "too-many-attributes:zone",
  "shape": "sphere",
  "radius": 6,
  "hollow": 1,
  "block_condition": {
    "type": "origins:block",
    "block": "minecraft:air"
  },
  "block_action": {
    "type": "too-many-attributes:set_fake_block",
    "block": "minecraft:glass",
    "duration": 200
  }
}

Inside a zone, set_fake_block runs as a block action, so its viewer_condition only sees the viewing player. To show a zone to one player, give that player a scoreboard tag and check the tag in viewer_condition.

Example: "Quake". Right-clicking a block with an empty hand cracks every block in a 7×3×7 box under it over 2 seconds. The blocks don't break.

json

{
  "type": "origins:action_on_block_use",
  "item_condition": {
    "type": "origins:empty"
  },
  "block_action": {
    "type": "too-many-attributes:zone",
    "from": { "x": -3, "y": -2, "z": -3 },
    "to": { "x": 3, "y": 0, "z": 3 },
    "block_action": {
      "type": "too-many-attributes:play_block_crack",
      "duration": 40
    }
  }
}

Example: "Tunnel vision". A 9-block tunnel of fake air in front of you, radius 1, lasting 5 seconds.

json

{
  "type": "too-many-attributes:zone",
  "shape": "cylinder",
  "axis": "z",
  "radius": 1,
  "height": 9,
  "y": 1,
  "z": 1,
  "rotate": true,
  "block_action": {
    "type": "too-many-attributes:set_fake_block",
    "block": "minecraft:air",
    "duration": 100
  }
}