Can I use command blocks to teleport a player who died?

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I need to detect if a player has died and teleport that one to location XY and give the other team a point.

I can detect if a player has died with testfor @a[score_HEALTH=1] applied to a redstone pulse, but that just outputs a signal if a player has died, not who has died.

Is there a way to detect which player has died? Is there a way to use the detected player who has died as an argument in the next command block, like /tp @f X Y Z, where @f stands for the found player of the last command block?

If nothing of that works, are there workarounds?

SirBenet · Accepted Answer

Any selector arguments you use in testfor can be used in tp. Like so:

1.7 to 1.12: /tp @a[score_HEALTH=1] X Y Z
1.13+:       /tp @a[scores={HEALTH=..1}] X Y Z

There are problems with using low health to check for death. Instead, I'd recommend adding a deaths scoreboard:

/scoreboard objectives add deaths deathCount

This score will get set to 1 when a player dies (automatic, because of the type of objective), your commands can teleport players with a deaths score of 1 and then set it back to 0 (so the player isn't repeatedly teleported).

The following commands are a full solution, including the team score incrementing, for 1.13+:

tp @a[scores={deaths=1..}] 73 10 31
execute as @a[scores={deaths=1..},team=red] run scoreboard players add blue points 1
execute as @a[scores={deaths=1..},team=blue] run scoreboard players add red points 1
scoreboard players set @a deaths 0

Billy Mailman · Answer

I haven't worked much with team scoreboard stuff, but the teleport should just be

/tp @p[score_HEALTH=1] X Y Z

@a is used to find all players matching some criteria; @p only finds one at a time, but let's you use that player's name inside other commands.

Thenexusserver · Answer

Or you could just use /setworldspawn unless you're doing a team based game then yea, listen to the other answers.

coasterrider · Answer

the easyest thing to do is to reset the players spawnpoint using commandblocks
as soon as they respawn they will appear in the set location

Can I use command blocks to teleport a player who died?

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