Command Block

“A command block is a block that can execute commands. Because it cannot be obtained or edited in Survival mode without cheats, it is primarily used on multiplayer servers, in Creative worlds, and custom maps.” — Minecraft Wiki, The King

The command block is an item in Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts. It is used to run commands from both Minecraft Java edition and Bedrock edition. It is seemingly weaker than the Minecraft Game Icon.

Powers & Abilities[]

Execution: The command block can execute any command in Minecraft so long as it is typed. If the command block is put into a powerful enough staff, it can execute multiple commands at once instantly, with no need to type, however, it is slower than the Minecraft Game Icon at executing commands. Notable abilities with commands include:
- Building and Destruction: Through the /setblock or /fill commands, it can build with any block in Minecraft and destroy through setting blocks to air.
- Item Granting: Through the /give command, it can give any item in Minecraft to entities infinitely.
- Summoning: It can summon any entity in Minecraft through the /summon command.
- Teleportation: By using /tp or /teleport, it can teleport users anywhere in the area.
- Effect Granting: It can grant any effect in Minecraft through the /effect command. There is seemingly no way to be immune to this, as King Orange is able to give Purple negative effects despite the latter having the fused Minecraft Game Icon.
- Entity Modification: Through the /data command, it is possible to modify various things about an entity, including things the base game does not include. Yellow does this in The Raid, using the command "data modify entity @s light_level set value 15", which adds a light source, though only to the command block staff instead of himself.
- Structure Saving/Loading: Through the /structure command, it's possible to save and load structures. It's used in The Raid to save and load the ravager model, as well as to create a barrier shield during the nether section. This is the only Bedrock Edition exclusive command to be used in AVM.
- Shielding: Through setting the value of the attribute "generic.shield_size", it can generate white, transparent bubble-shields around entities, protecting them from projectiles while seemingly allowing other entities to pass through, as seen in The King. The Minecraft Game Icon is also capable of this, but this requires a staff.
- Countdown: Counted down through "function minecart_race".
Malfunction: The command block can malfunction if it gets struck by lightning, which causes it to quickly flip between all possible command block textures, execute random commands by itself, and make nearby command blocks also malfunction. If an already malfunctioning command block is struck by lightning, the background will convert to random blocks as well as beginning to slowly rotate, gravity will cease, and living creatures will be pixelated before slowly being converted into blocks.

History[]

Command Blocks - Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts Episode 6[]

Yellow grabs the Minecraft Game Icon to get some items. He scrolls until he reaches the end of the inventory of items. until he reaches the end. He tries to move his select item through the wall that contains all the items, and breaks through. Items such as the barrier are there, along with the Command Block. Yellow takes it with him, along with the other redstone items he grabbed, and puts the Minecraft Game Icon back in its place.

Yellow sets the command block on the ground and types in 'Work'. After nothing happens, he hits the side of the block until it opens and the instruction list unfolds. Yellow reads the instructions and starts to understand how the block works. He tries to giving himself a stack of command blocks and placing blocks on various spaces with commands. Yellow also tries armor stand positioning, and thinks of an idea. He places a cake, and when Red comes and tries to get it, he repeatedly moves the cake with commands. He catches Yellow typing a command, and both stick figures rub their hands together slyly.

Blue and Green are walking across the screen and stop when they see Red in a black hat with a magician's wand. He performs some magic tricks with the help of Yellow and command blocks. Red uses lightning in one of his tricks, and as Yellow types on multiple Command Blocks, lightning strikes a Command Block, setting it on fire and causing it to change its type and shape. The commands are messed up, continuously scrolling and being repeatedly typed in on their own. Yellow attempts to break the block with his pickaxe, but the error spreads onto more blocks. Yellow tries to break them but they all get affected.

Meanwhile, Red's 'wand' turns into a pig, and many other entities also turn into animals and other blocks. Everything begins to morph into different blocks or mobs. Yellow hits a Command Block with two Diamond Pickaxes but to no avail. Red tries to place a TNT block close to the Command Blocks and lights it. But the TNT instead explodes into sheep.

The Second Coming then steps up onto the screen to investigate. He walks by all the strange things happening, confused, until he finally reaches Red and Yellow, who are still trying to destroy the Command Blocks. Another bolt of lighting struck a block, and the Command Blocks went out of control and random blocks spread out, covering the whole screen. Red, Yellow, and The Second Coming began to float up, along with the taskbar, and begin to glitch by turning into items.

Thinking fast, The Second Coming floats over and hits Restart, setting everything back to normal. The five stick figures stand in the centre of the screen. Yellow then drops the Command Block into a block of fire, estroying it.

Parkour - AVM Shorts Episode 22[]

Purple reveals that the parkour course has a respawn system, and when Yellow dies and everyone panics, he laughs REALLY hard and deliberately jumps off the edge, appearing in the beginning of the course again. This respawn system saves the sticks on various occasions.

Eventually, in the "final" course, Purple flies out through some sort of portal, going to a bastion and meeting up with his "boss", King Orange. Purple states that he successfully completed all of King Orange's plan, so King Orange takes out a command block staff and starts formulating the next parts of the plan.

Meanwhile, Green escapes by building his way up and mining his way out. Once he sneaks into the bastion, he sees King Orange's completed plan for Purple to carry out:

Sneak into ALANSPC and steal the Minecraft Game Icon.
A flashback of Red building the MegaStick shows off the icon's power.
Return to the bastion, put the icon in the staff, and...DESTROY MINECRAFT!

Green panics, running into Purple as he escapes, and starts fighting him. He quickly gains the upper hand, but King Orange uses his staff to restrain Green and shove him into a prison cell, then electrifies the edges so he can't get out.

Meanwhile, Yellow, still trapped in his course, slips on ice and falls...but sees a command block that teleports him back to his starting location. On his next course, he uses his fishing rod to slowly lower himself down to the command block, deletes the command, and jumps down...into Blue's course. They briefly hug, before carrying out the same thing on Blue's command block and landing in the bastion. They quickly jump into a nether portal and escape.

Titan Ravager - AVM Shorts Episode 23[]

After building a food-dispensing machine for the medium-sized Titan Ravager. it comes back with its family. The larger titan ravager pushes the smaller one out of the way so that it can have the food from the dispenser, so the smaller ravager tries to settle for eating a pair of villagers. But before it can even eat them, King Orange comes in with the command blocks taffy and kills them both. Offscreen, the medium-sized titan ravager runs away in fright.

Meanwhile, King Orange asks Blue and Yellow to come back with him to the bastion. Seeing the power of the command block in King Orange's staff, Yellow agrees. King Orange builds a nether portal and takes them to his bastion.

The Ultimate Weapon - AVM Shorts Episode 25[]

King Orange takes both Yellow and Blue to his fake quartz throne room, where he makes Yellow and Blue fellow kings, tempting them with a fake command block staff and a massive pile of netherwarts, respectively.

Meanwhile, Green escapes from prison, and with the Heroic Pig, he makes his way to the bastion, trying to warn Yellow and Blue of King Orange's true intentions. Unfortunately, King Orange stops him at every turn. Through conventional means, he blocks the way with a massive barrier of obsidian. Later on, when Green tries to mine through the wall, King Orange always blocks the way by filling the hole back in. But Green still manages to make his way in by literally lighting TNT, blasting a huge hole in the wall. He tells them everything he learned from spying on King Orange, before he and his friends share a hug. King Orange then prepares for battle, changing the music in his note block from Mellohi to Pigstep, then turning Yellow's fake command block staff into a wooden plank staff, rendering it useless, filling in Green's TNT hole, raising the ceiling, and finally, building cages for Yellow, Blue, and Green. The trio ready their weapons, and the battle commences.

King Orange briefly clashes steel with Green, before using obsidian to smack him away. He then uses the obsidian to block Blue's arrows and uses a ForceHold command on Yellow to throw him back towards his friends. Blue then charges towards him, so he blocks with more obsidian, then lengthens the obsidian to knock Blue away and cuts away half the obsidian into stairs, where he summons a mass of arrows and fireballs to throw at his enemies.

He then walks forward, launching the ammunition, before using obsidian to block arrows from Blue. But with a surprise attack from Green, using both the fishing rod and sword, he manages to trap King Orange's staff and disarm him.

Unfortunately, Purple manages to get the Minecraft Game Icon into the nether portal as they fight, creating a vortex that sucks everything Minecraft-related into it, including the three sticks' weapons. King Orange takes advantage of their reprieve to snatch his staff back and shove the trio into their respective cages. Off-screen, he builds a new cage for Red.

Red, meanwhile, fights over Purple for possession of noogai3's Minecraft Game Icon, but King Orange manages to restrain Red and imprison him as well. Purple brings the icon to King Orange, who replaces the command block with the Minecraft Game Icon and releases a massive white void, beginning to destroy Minecraft.

Later on, as the black hole that King Orange created expands, Blue and Yellow manage to make their way back down to the nether portal that leads them to the Titan Ravager village. Right before leaving, Yellow swipes the command block, and they make their way in.

The Raid - AVM Shorts Episode 28[]

Yellow, having swiped the command block, with the help of a trio of villagers, builds a new staff for his command block. Off-screen, he briefly trains himself on how to use it. Once he is ready, he grants positive potion effects to the Musketeers and puts feathers in their hats.

Riding on the Village Horse, he and the Fletcher ride towards the Titan Ravager's cave. When a group of Pillagers notice him, they shoot arrows at him, but he blocks with a shield. Once he and the Fletcher make it in, the Titan Ravager roars and terrifies them both, but the Titan Ravager, remembering the staff as the same weapon that killed their family, cowers back in terror, but Yellow lures it out again with a plethora of food. He then activates a simulation of King Orange killing the Titan Ravager family and saddening the medium-sized Titan Ravager, then showing Yellow stealing the command block from the staff and using it (in a new staff) to kill King Orange. The titan ravager's response, of course, is to stomp on the simulated version of King Orange, signifying that he's joined the heroes.

Returning to the village, where the Illager Raid has overpowered the Musketeers and Blue, Yellow, with the Titan Ravager, manages to scare the illagers off, even making the Evoker faint. Yellow places in scores of positive potions effects on the Titan Ravager, builds a massive Nether Portal for the Titan Ravager to go through, and they enter.

Fighting King Orange, his role in the battle is mainly to protect and support his allies, but even with the power of the staff, he ends up losing to King Orange's Dark Mobs.

The King - AVM Shorts Episode 30[]

Flashback[]

King Orange buys a command block off of a black market dealer, then starts building staffs to harness its power. Most of them fail, but he eventually builds a successful one that is able to summon a single cobblestone block. Frustrated at its apparent lack of power, he decides to go bigger...the Minecraft Game Icon.

When Purple meets him about the Stick Gang on the Minecraft Game Icon, because King Orange has no other leads, he invites Purple inside, showing off the power of the command block staff and revealing a massive array of command blocks and computers in his basement. Once he and Purple enter the Nether, he kills a pair of Piglin Brutes to show off his power and gives away lots of gold to convince them to join his side. He then creates a throne for himself and Purple offers him a crown.

Present[]

Yellow, using the command block staff and with the help of his friends, manages to trap King Orange in soul sand, but when the Titan Ravager kills its Dark Mob counterpart, it charges towards Yellow with the intent to kill King Orange, so Yellow has to stop him. But he gets too close to King Orange, who grabs the command block staff and knocks everyone away from him, and with limited power, manages to defeat absolutely everyone and steal his own staff back from Purple, then using lightning to destroy Yellow's staff and reclaim his command block.

After his change of heart, he puts the command block back in the empty staff and revives the Titan Ravager's family with it, then hands the staff to Yellow, who celebrates.

Ultimate Minecart Race - AVM Shorts Episode 31[]

Yellow builds a podium for first, second, and third place with the staff, then uses it to fly towards his friends. He activates the starting light, and they start moving.

Partway through the race, Yellow tells his friends of an incoming fork.

Once finishing, his friends furiously fight over the golden trophy, so Yellow gives them all golden trophies and wins, to their great disappointment.

Lucky Block Staff - AVM Shorts Episode 33[]

Yellow takes the command block out of his staff, then allows the rest of the Stick Gang to try various blocks. After they're done, he puts it back in and celebrates.

Red later steals the staff and takes the command block out to make room for the lucky block.

The Orb eventually takes control over the staff and transforms into a massive amalgamation of rapidly changing blocks, taking the shape of a hammer. Yellow, however, manages to save his friends with the command block with a barrier, then morphing it into an enclosure, trapping the amalgamation, so the Orb sends them all into the Lucky Dimension.

Bedwars - AVM Shorts Episode 36[]

Yellow uses the staff to activate the Fighting Stick Figures' Bedwars game.

Hardcore Manhunt - Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts Season 5[]

Yellow uses the command block staff to trivialize the sticks' adventures. He:

Blocks an attack from the Witch with a shield and supplies potions of transmutation for Blue.
Knocks the Cave Spider Colony away from all the other sticks.
Sends the Illager Raid into lava.
Replenishes Purple's hunger bar.
Gives Purple lots of diamonds when he's about to mine.

Once they return from their adventures, Yellow uses the staff to build a mansion and teleport them all to the Cherry Jungle Hillsides, spawns seven armor stands, and brings them all to life as butlers.

The next day, a glitch causes a chest to start acting strangely. After Blue tries throwing a stick at it and Green tries mining it, Yellow tries replacing the chest with an exact duplicate, but it continues to glitch, and the glitch ends up spreading from over the chest to the staff, causing it to go crazy and send lots of random commands everywhere, like sending King Orange to the Far Lands. The staff ends up sending the game into hardcore as Yellow pulls the corruption out of the staff. Unfortunately, the staff's not done glitching, and it literally disintegrates, taking the command block with it.

Actual Shorts Season 1[]

Fireworks[]

Yellow uses the staff to give Red some carrots to himself and his pig.

It's Alive![]

Yellow tries to bring a command block to life with the Splash Potion of Awakening, but the Stick Gang stops him, knocking him out.

Piggie Love[]

Yellow is "exploring" with his staff when the Heroic Pig finds a mate.

Actual Shorts Season 2[]

You Shall Not Pass[]

Yellow uses the command block staff to:

Block an attack from the Wither King with a generic shield.
Use slime to attach a web from the Cave Spider Queen to the left-most head of the Wither King.
Break the blocks that the Cave Spider Queen is on, causing both her and her fellow monarch to fall into the abyss.

When a web from the Cave Spider Queen drags Yellow over the edge, he manages to save himself by using the /fly command to get back to his friends, waving sheepishly and clinging to the staff for dear life.