Mod Notice
Name, CustomName, Lore, and team/objective display names use JSON text components now, just like /tellraw and /title. The format changed a bit, but you can use colors, formatting, and translations now.
1.12
/summon cow ~ ~ ~ {CustomName:"example"}
/team add example Example1.13+
/summon cow ~ ~ ~ {CustomName:"{\"text\":\"example\"}"}
/team add example "Example"Linked issues
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MC-123797
Armor Stand Wont allow data tags
Resolved
MC-123826
Renaming entities using commands doesn't work
Resolved
MC-123920
Unable to summon named entities!
Resolved
MC-123981
NBT CustomName seems to only accept integers
Resolved
MC-124023
The tag {CustomName:"name"} causes all summon commands to fail.
Resolved
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Comments 7
Next time, just read the blog post 🙂
https://minecraft.net/article/minecraft-snapshot-18w01a
Technical: Changed all custom names (blocks, items, entities, block entities) to translatable text components
Giving item with lore still works the same though. Like this: /give @a minecraft:stick{display:{Lore:["a powerful stick"]}} 1. That doesn't require JSON format. So I was just wondering if this is a bug or not?
They are currently not json strings, see MC-123772.
Names are JSON components now; use
CustomName:"\"test\""