Commands/swing

This feature is exclusive to Java Edition.

 

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Controls the swinging animation of entities' hands.

/swing [<targets>] [mainhand|offhand]​^{[until: JE 26.3]}

/swing [<targets>] [mainhand|offhand] [<animation>] [<duration>]​^{[upcoming: JE 26.3]}

<targets>: entity

Specifies entities to swing. Defaults to @s (the command executor).

Not all entities will animate a swing on the client side.

Must be a player name, a target selector or a UUID.

mainhand|offhand

Specifies the arm to swing. Defaults to mainhand.

<animation>: swing_animation​^{[upcoming: JE 26.3]}

Specifies the swing animation to play. Defaults to whack.

Must be either whack or stab.

<duration>: time​^{[upcoming: JE 26.3]}

Specifies the duration of the swing animation. Defaults to 6t.

It must be a single-precision floating-point number suffixed with a unit. It must be not less than 1 gameticks. Units include:

• d: an in-game day, 24000 gameticks;
• s: a second, 20 gameticks;
• t (default and omitable): a single gametick; the default unit.

The time is set to the closest integer after unit conversion to gametick. For example. .5d is same as 12000 gameticks.