Commands/data

data

Restrictions	Operator
First introduced	1.13 (17w45a)

Allows the player to get, merge, and remove block entity and entity NBT data.

Syntax

data get block <pos> [<path>] [<scale>]

data get entity <target> [<path>] [<scale>]

data merge block <pos> <nbt>

data merge entity <target> <nbt>

data remove block <pos> <path>

data remove entity <target> <path>

Arguments

pos

Specifies the position of the block.

target

Specifies the target entity.

path (Optional)

Specifies the path to the targeted NBT.

Data paths look like this: foo.bar[0]."A [crazy name]".baz.

• foo.bar means foo's child called bar.
• foo[0] means element 0 of foo.
• "quoted strings" may be used if a name of a key needs to be escaped.

scale (Optional)

Scales the number retrieved from get.

nbt

Specifies the NBT tag to be merged/removed.

Result

Fails if the arguments are not specified correctly.

On success:

• get — Returns the NBT data from the block at pos or one target entity as its result (if a path is specified). A path can be specified to only retrieve that NBT data, but this is limited to numeric tags. An optional scale can be provided to scale the number retrieved.
• merge — Merges the block NBT data at pos or from the target entity with the specified nbt data.
• remove — Will remove NBT data at path from the block at pos or from one target entity. Removing player NBT data is not allowed.