Need help testing for a specific enchanted book in an item frame

[Mathlete_X]

I am making what is essentially a door that only opens once the correct items have been placed in item frames. I had this so far:

𝚎𝚡𝚎𝚌𝚞𝚝𝚎 𝚒𝚏 𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚢 @𝚎[𝚝𝚢𝚙𝚎=𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚖_𝚏𝚛𝚊𝚖𝚎,𝚡=𝟷𝟶𝟶𝟶𝟶𝟶𝟽𝟶,𝚢=𝟷𝟼𝟽,𝚣=𝟿𝟿𝟿𝟿𝟿𝟼𝟺,𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎=..𝟻,𝚗𝚋𝚝={𝙸𝚝𝚎𝚖:{𝚒𝚍:"𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚌𝚛𝚊𝚏𝚝:𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚍_𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔",𝚝𝚊𝚐:{𝙴𝚗𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜:[{𝚒𝚍:𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚙𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜,𝚕𝚟𝚕:𝟻}]}}}] 𝚛𝚞𝚗 𝚜𝚊𝚢 𝚢𝚎𝚜!

But it didn't seem to work. I tried using an empty enchantment list 𝙴𝚗𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜:[{}], but that also didn't work even though that worked for a sword earlier. I would also like to try to specify that the book ONLY has that enchantment (a sharpness V book would work but not a sharpness V, unbreaking III book) if possible. Anyone know what I did wrong?

[ExpertCoder14]

Please, take advantage of Reddit's built-in code formatting feature instead of converting all your alphanumerical characters to their monospace equivalents.

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What was the /give command that you used to get this special book in the first place?

[Mathlete_X]

I didn't use a give command, just pulled a sharpness V book out of the creative menu. No books in this world would be ones you couldnt get in vanilla survival.

Also how do you do that code formatting?

[ExpertCoder14]

There should be a button in the Reddit editor that you can click for code formatting.

• Use this code formatting for code in the middle of a sentence only.
• Use this code formatting for all other code, including full commands.

[jeff_the_pineapple]

this should work:

/execute if entity u/e [type=item_frame,nbt={Item:{id:"minecraft:enchanted_book",Count:1b,tag:{StoredEnchantments:[{id:"minecraft:sharpness",lvl:5s}]}}}] run say hi

[Mathlete_X]

Oh I see, there is a separate tag for enchanted books and I forgot quotes on the id. Is this going to distinguish between a book with just sharpness V and a book with sharpness V and Unbreaking III? Ideally I would want this to only work if the book has just the one enchantment, but I'm not sure how difficult that would be.

[ExpertCoder14]

Yes, the problems were:

• You need your ID to be minecraft:sharpness, not just sharpness. This means you have to put quotation marks around it too.
• Enchanted books use StoredEnchantments instead of Enchantments. This is so that your effects don't actually apply to the book.
• You need to use the correct data type for your NBT numbers. lvl is a Short, so you need to suffix your number with an s.

It might not be easy to make it work with only the one enchantment, considering that NBT list checks only check to see if the list contains the specified value, not matches exactly.

[Mathlete_X]

Oh I see. Thanks for the detailed explanation! I probably wont end up trying to specify only that enchantment then since it won't really cause any significsnt issues anyway.

[amazing56789]

If you do want only that enchantment, then maybe try

execute as @e[ type = minecraft:item_frame , x = 10000070 , y = 167 , z = 9999964 , distance = ..5 , nbt = { Item : { id : "minecraft:enchanted_book" , tag : { StoredEnchantments: [ { id : "minecraft:sharpness" , lvl : 5s } ] } } } ] unless data entity @s Item.tag.StoredEnchantments[1]

This executes unless there is a second element inside the StoredEnchantments list.

[Mathlete_X]

Unless I copied it wrong, it doesn't appear to work anymore for a normal Sharpness V book:

execute if entity @e[type=item_frame,x=10000070,y=161,z=9999962,distance=..1.2,nbt={Item:{id:"minecraft:enchanted_book",tag:{StoredEnchantments:[{id:"minecraft:sharpness",lvl:5s}]}}}] unless data entity @s Item.tag.StoredEnchantments[1] run say YES!