[MC-99906] AreaEffectCloud Color tag doesn't work with particles other than mobSpell

The tag works fine for mobSpell, but not for any other colourable particles, e.g. mobSpellAmbient or reddust. In the last 2 cases, it just shows randomly coloured particles.

EDIT: On 1.11.2, it doesn't show randomly coloured particles, but instead shows particles of a default colour no matter what the Color tag is (e.g. red reddust particles, greyish mobSpellAmbient particles)

EDIT 2: In 17w13b, the randomly-coloured particles are back instead of the default colours

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MC-113228 reddust particle doesn't get colored by area effect cloud's color nbt tag Resolved

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scottrueschtech 2016-03-27T12:55:46Z

I am able to confirm this.

wobst.michael 2016-10-23T16:33:07Z

Is this still an issue in the most recent versions (currently that is 1.10.2, or 16w42a) of Minecraft? If so, please update the affected versions and help us keeping this ticket updated from time to time. If you are the owner/reporter of this ticket, you can modify the affected version(s) yourself.

Skylinerw 2017-01-27T18:09:57Z

EDIT: On 1.11.2, it doesn't show randomly coloured particles, but instead shows particles of a default colour no matter what the Colour tag is (e.g. red reddust particles, greyish mobSpellAmbient particles)

I cannot confirm that part. Make sure you're spelling the tag correctly (it's "Color" rather than "Colour"). Please be sure to provide any commands you're attempting to use so that we can easily replicate your issue.

Schmike Schmolger 2017-02-05T18:58:16Z

Make sure you're spelling the tag correctly (it's "Color" rather than "Colour")

Sorry, I did in the game; my browser's autocorrect is set to Canadian English.

Some commands to test are:

/summon area_effect_cloud ~ ~1 ~ {Particle:reddust,Radius:30f,RadiusPerTick:0f,RadiusOnUse:0f,Duration:1000,DurationOnUse:0f,Age:-3000,Color:65356}

And

/summon area_effect_cloud ~ ~1 ~ {Particle:mobSpellAmbient,Radius:30f,RadiusPerTick:0f,RadiusOnUse:0f,Duration:1000,DurationOnUse:0f,Age:-3000,Color:65356}

The Color tag is for bright green, but the particles show up in default colours in both cases.
Also, once when I did it with reddust, there was a little poof of rainbow reddust particles in a circle when it spawned, but I haven't been able to reproduce that.

Skylinerw 2017-02-05T19:14:12Z

That would be because your Age value is negative, when it's supposed to be 0 or higher. Using a non-negative value works correctly in reproducing the first part of this report:

/summon area_effect_cloud ~ ~1 ~ {Particle:reddust,Radius:30f,RadiusPerTick:0f,RadiusOnUse:0f,Duration:4000,DurationOnUse:0f,Color:65356}

/summon area_effect_cloud ~ ~1 ~ {Particle:mobSpellAmbient,Radius:30f,RadiusPerTick:0f,RadiusOnUse:0f,Duration:4000,DurationOnUse:0f,Color:65356}