Commands/ride

Allows entities to mount or dismount other entities.

Usage[]

In Java Edition, all types of entities (except marker and player) can ride and be ridden by other entities of any types. Marker and player cannot be ridden.

In Bedrock Edition, an entity cannot ride entities which are not normally rideable for it in vanilla game, which is mainly data driven, controlled by the minecraft:rideable component in the entity files in behavior packs (see Riding#Valid riding combinations in vanilla for details; see also the official doc). In Bedrock Edition, this command can also be used to summon passengers and mounts.

Syntax[]

• Java Edition

ride <target> mount <vehicle>

Makes <target> ride on <vehicle>.

ride <target> dismount

Dismounts target from any vehicle it is riding.

• Bedrock Edition

ride <riders: target> start_riding <ride: target> [teleportRules: TeleportRules] [howToFill: FillType]

Tries to make <riders: target> ride on <ride: target>.

ride <riders: target> stop_riding

Makes <riders: target> dismount.

ride <rides: target> evict_riders

Makes entities that are riding on <rides: target> dismount.

ride <rides: target> summon_rider <entityType: EntityType> [spawnEvent: string] [nameTag: string]

Summons an entity at the position of each of <rides: target> that are rideable and not full, and then tries to make them ride on <rides: target>.

ride <riders: target> summon_ride <entityType: EntityType> [rideRules: RideRules] [spawnEvent: string] [nameTag: string]

Summons an entity at the position of each of <riders: target>, and then tries to make <riders: target> ride on them.

Arguments[]

JE: <target>: entity

Specifies the passenger.

Must be a player name, a target selector or a UUID. And the target selector must be in single type.

JE: <vehicle>: entity

Specifies the mount.

Must be a player name, a target selector or a UUID. And the target selector must be in single type.

BE: riders: target: CommandSelector<Actor>

Specifies the passengers.

If in start_riding mode, should be only one entity if teleportRules: TeleportRules is teleport_ride.

Must be a player name or a target selector.

BE: ride: target: CommandSelector<Actor>

Specifies an mount.

Should be only one entity.

Must be a player name or a target selector.

BE: rides: target: CommandSelector<Actor>

Specifies the mounts.

Must be a player name or a target selector.

BE: teleportRules: TeleportRules: enum

Must be one of teleport_ride and teleport_rider.

Specified which entities are teleported. If unspecified, defaults to teleport_rider.

BE: howToFill: FillType: enum

Must be one of if_group_fits and until_full.

• If if_group_fits, checks whether all riders: target can ride on ride: target at the same time, and makes them ride only if true.
• If until_full or unspecified, makes them ride up one by one until it's full.

BE: entityType: EntityType: enum

Specifies the entities to be summoned.

This argument type is not registered in game.

BE: spawnEvent: string: basic_string

Specifies the entity event for the to-be-summoned entities. Should be a spawn event (event name for entities in behavior pack).

Must be a string. And it must be a single word that has no space or a quoted string.

BE: nameTag: string: basic_string

Specifies the name of the to-be-summoned entities.

Must be a string. And it must be a single word that has no space or a quoted string.

BE: rideRules: RideRules: enum

Must be one of no_ride_change, reassign_rides, and skip_riders.

• If skip_riders, summons entities only for <riders: target> that are not riding on another entity.
• If no_ride_change, summons entities only for <riders: target> that are not riding on and not ridden by other entity(s).
• If reassign_rides or unspecified, makes <riders: target> dismount if they're riding, then summons entities for all of them.

Result[]

Command	Trigger	Java Edition	Bedrock Edition
any	the arguments are not specified correctly	Unparseable	Unparseable
	<target>, or vehicle fails to resolve to an entity (named players must be online)	Failed	N/A
/ride ... mount ...	<target> is already riding on an entity
	vehicle is a player
	a mounting loop is detected (vehicle is riding <target>, or its passengers, or passengers of its passengers, etc.)
	<target> and vehicle are in different dimensions
	<vehicle> is a marker
/ride ... dismount	<target> is not riding on an entity
	riders: target, rides: target, or ride: target fails to resolve to one or more entities (named players must be online)	N/A	Failed
/... start_riding ...	more than one entity is targeted by ride: target
	the entity targeted by ride: target is already full
	teleportRules: TeleportRules is teleport_ride and more than one entity is targeted by <riders: target>.
	howToFill: FillType is not specified or until_full and the ride: target is not rideable for all of <riders: target>
	howToFill: FillType is if_group_fits and too many entities is targeted by <riders: target> to ride up at the same time.
	howToFill: FillType is if_group_fits and the ride: target is not rideable for at least one of <riders: target>
/... stop_riding	none of <riders: target> is riding on other entity.
/... evict_riders	none of <rides: target> is ridden by other entities.
/... summon_rider ...	all <rides: target> are already full or not rideable for the riders.
	trying to summon hostiles in peaceful difficulty.
/... summon_ride ...	all summoned entities are not rideable for <riders: target>.
	trying to summon hostiles in peaceful difficulty.
any	Otherwise	Successful

Output[]

Command	Edition	Situation	Success Count	/execute store success ...	/execute store result ...
any	Java Edition	On fail	0	0	0
		On success	1	1	1
any	Bedrock Edition	On fail	0	N/A	N/A
/... start_riding ...		On success	the number of entities that get riding on the targeted ride	N/A	N/A
/... stop_riding ...		On success	the number of entities that get dismounted	N/A	N/A
/... evict_riders ...		On success	the number of entities that successfully evict their riders	N/A	N/A
/... summon_rider ...		On success	the number of summoned entities that successfully ride on their linked rides	N/A	N/A
/... summon_ride ...		On success	the number of summoned entities that are successfully ridden by their linked riders	N/A	N/A

Example[]

In Java Edition, make the nearest player ride on an nearest arrow:

• /ride @p mount @e[type=arrow,sort=nearest,limit=1]

In Bedrock Edition, summon an arrow at the position of each player who have "A" tag:

• /ride @a[tag=A] summon_ride arrow

In Bedrock Edition, summon a charged creeper at the position of each player who have "A" tag:

• /ride @a[tag=A] summon_ride creeper reassign_rides minecraft:become_charged

History[]

Java Edition
1.19.4		23w03a			Added /ride.
Bedrock Edition
1.16.100		beta 1.16.100.52			Added /ride.