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Puppet Players<\/h3>\n

\nA fabric mod for fake ‘puppet’ players in Minecraft\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

## About The Project<\/p>\n

Modern, simple implementation of the fake players implemented originally in Carpet Mod.<\/p>\n

There are some fundamental differences to how these fake players are implemented in comparison to the original implementation in Carpet Mod.<\/p>\n

This mod can be used alongside Carpet Mod, carpet’s fake player actions will work on these puppet players; however, it’s recommended to use the provided actions instead.<\/p>\n

The aim of this mod is to keep the behaviour of the puppet players as accurate as possible to a real player:<\/p>\n

– All the player ticking is done in the correct tick phase.
\n– The client code for player actions is simulated on the server.
\n– Puppet players send packets to interact with the server, like a real player.
\n– Maintaining compatibility with all mods.<\/p>\n

## Usage<\/p>\n

After installing the mod the `\/puppet` command should become available to operators.
\nThe `\/puppet` command can also be made available to all players by changing the config,
\nsee [the config section](#config) for more details.<\/p>\n

We can make a puppet player join the world using one of the following commands:
\n“`mcfunction
\n\/puppet join
\n\/puppet spawn
\n\/puppet spawn at facing in in
\n\/puppet shadow
\n“`
\n– The `join` subcommand spawns the specified puppet at its previous log-off position, this essentially simulates
\nas if the player were joining the server themselves.
\n– The `spawn` subcommand spawns the specified puppet at either a specified position or the position of the
\ncommand executor if the position is not specified.
\n– The `shadow` subcommand makes a puppet player join in the place of a currently online player.<\/p>\n

Once a player has joined the world, we can make the player leave by running the following command:
\n“`
\n\/puppet leave
\n“`<\/p>\n

### Actions<\/p>\n

Puppet players are able to run actions mimicking real player behaviour.<\/p>\n

Here is a list of all available actions:<\/p>\n

| Action | Description | Arguments | Works stand-alone |
\n|———————————|——————————————————|—————————————————————————|——————-|
\n| `”minecraft:attack”` | Makes the player attack (left click). | `` | Yes |
\n| `”minecraft:delay”` | Adds a delay between chained actions. | `` | No |
\n| `”minecraft:drop”` | Makes the player drop their selected item. | `` | Yes |
\n| `”minecraft:interrupt_move_to”` | Interrupts the players current pathfinding. | None | Yes |
\n| `”minecraft:jump”` | Makes the player jump. | `` | Yes |
\n| `”minecraft:look”` | Makes the player look in a direction. | `` | Yes |
\n| `”minecraft:move_to”` | Makes the player pathfind to a position or entity. | `position ` or `entity ` | Yes |
\n| `”minecraft:offhand”` | Makes the player swap their item with their offhand. | None | Yes |
\n| `”minecraft:sneak”` | Makes the player sneak. | `` | Yes |
\n| `”minecraft:sprint”` | Makes the player sprint. | `` | Yes |
\n| `”minecraft:swap_slot”` | Makes the player swap to a slot. | `` | Yes |
\n| `”minecraft:use”` | Makes the player use (right click). | `` | Yes |<\/p>\n

To run an action, we can run it stand-alone with the following command:
\n“`mcfunction
\n\/puppet actions run …
\n“`
\nThis makes the player run the action immediately.<\/p>\n

For example, to make a player hold attack, you would run:
\n“`mcfunction
\n\/puppet actions run minecraft:attack hold
\n“`<\/p>\n

We can also chain multiple actions together by running the following command:
\n“`mcfunction
\n\/puppet actions chain add …
\n“`
\nOnce you’ve added actions to the chain, we can also run the following commands to
\ncontrol the chained behaviour:
\n“`mcfunction
\n\/puppet actions chain loop # Whether to infinitely loop the chained actions
\n\/puppet actions chain pause # Pause execution of the chained actions
\n\/puppet actions chain resume # Resume execution of the chained actions
\n\/puppet actions chain restart # Restart execution of the chained actions (from the first action)
\n\/puppet actions chain stop # Stops execution of the chained actions (and clears all actions)
\n“`<\/p>\n

For example, to make a player hold attack for 5 seconds, then let go for 2 seconds, then repeat we would run:
\n“`mcfunction
\n\/puppet actions chain add minecraft:attack hold
\n\/puppet actions chain add minecraft:delay 5s
\n\/puppet actions chain add minecraft:attack release
\n\/puppet actions chain add minecraft:delay 2s
\n\/puppet actions chain loop true
\n“`<\/p>\n

### Config<\/p>\n

The config is located in `.\/config\/puppet-player-config.json` and by default should look like this:<\/p>\n

“`json
\n{
\n “reload_puppet_players”: true,
\n “operator_required_for_puppets”: true
\n}
\n“`
\n– `”reload_puppet_players”` – Whether to respawn puppets if the server stopped with them last online
\n– `”operator_required_for_puppets”` – Whether players need operator permissions to run the `\/puppet` command<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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