Scoreboard Example in Minecraft

This Minecraft tutorial walks you through how to create an example scoreboard in Minecraft with step-by-step instructions.

Example Scoreboard

You can use the /scoreboard command to setup a scoreboard with teams, players and objectives.

Let's go through the commands to set up an example scoreboard.

scoreboard command

Example Overview

In this example, we will set up 2 teams. The first team will be called "The Killers" and will be assigned dark purple as the team color. The second team will be called "The Destroyers" and will be assigned red.

Next, we will add 1 player to each team. DigMinecraft will join "The Killers" and Steve will join the "Destroyers".

Then, we will set up 3 objectives - an achievement, a statistic, and a named objective. We will set the scores for these objectives to 0 for each player so they are trackable in the scoreboard.

Finally, we will display the first objective called "Get Iron" in the scoreboard on the right sidebar.

TIP: To enter a command in Minecraft, open the chat window and then type the command.

To setup this example scoreboard, enter the following commands in Minecraft:

Set up 2 Teams

Add a Team named "The Killers":
```
/scoreboard teams add Team1 The Killers
```

Add a Team named "The Destroyers":

/scoreboard teams add Team2 The Destroyers

Assign Colors to the Teams

Assign the color dark_purple to Team1:

/scoreboard teams option Team1 color dark_purple

Assign the color dark_purple to Team2:

/scoreboard teams option Team2 color red

Add a Player to each Team

Add the player named DigMinecraft to Team1:
```
/scoreboard teams join Team1 DigMinecraft
```
Add the player named Steve to Team2:
```
/scoreboard teams join Team2 Steve
```

Set up 3 Objectives

Add first objective called "Get Iron" which is a built-in achievement in Minecraft:
```
/scoreboard objectives add FirstObjective achievement.acquireIron Get Iron
```
Add second objective called "Player Kills" which is a built-in statistic in Minecraft:
```
/scoreboard objectives add SecondObjective stat.playerKills Player Kills
```
Add third objective called "Total Kills" using totalKillCount objective type:
```
/scoreboard objectives add ThirdObjective totalKillCount Total Kills
```

Set Scores to 0 (so they are trackable in scoreboard)

Set first objective score to 0 for all players:
```
/scoreboard players set * FirstObjective 0
```
Set second objective score to 0 for all players:
```
/scoreboard players set * SecondObjective 0
```
Set third objective score to 0 for all players:
```
/scoreboard players set * ThirdObjective 0
```

Show First Objective in Scoreboard

Show first objective in scoreboard as sidebar:

/scoreboard objectives setdisplay sidebar FirstObjective

How the Scoreboard Looks

Congratulations, you have created your scoreboard in Minecraft and you should see something like this:

scoreboard command

Learn about the other features of the /scoreboard command so that you can manage your scoreboard.

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