New Minecraft 1.5 Scoreboard. How to Add Objectives, Increase Scores

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First appearing in Minecraft 1.5, the new Minecraft scoreboard system is a type of tally or counter that keeps track of player scores for certain objectives. You can manipulate scoreboard stats by using the scoreboard command which can also be used through a command block.

How to add new objectives to the scoreboard?

New objectives are added using the "scoreboard objectives" command e.g.

/scoreboard objectives add NewObjective playerKillCount



Note: To open the command window, just press / on your keyboard.

The first parameter to the add command is the objective name, which can be anything you want. The second parameter is the objective type which is either:

• deathCount - score increments automatically for a player when they die
• playerKillCount - score increments automatically for a player when they kill another player
• totalKillCount - score increments automatically for a player when they kill any mob
• dummy - score can only change by using commands and not by game events

To see a list of all objectives you should use:

/scoreboard objectives list

Increase a players score for a particular objective

To change a players objective score, we use the "scoreboard players" command e.g.

/scoreboard players set PlayersName ObjectiveA 999



Note: You can use the set OR add command to change a tally.

Video

Quick video showing you how to create scoreboard objectives, assign to players and increase counts.