Commands

/testfor @e[type=item,name="Ghast Tear"]

This command will activate when a ghast tear is dropped.

/kill @e[type=item,name="Lime Wool"]

This command runs when a Lime Wool is dropped.

/testfor @e[type=item,name="Spooky Pumpkin"]

If you name an item “Spooky Pumpkin” and drop it, this runs.

Notes

• This is still compatible with the color formatting codes (§), so don’t worry!

• If your item name does not contain spaces and consists only of the characters in the following line, you may type the name directly, without having to include the quotation marks:

  +-.0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
  

  If your name contains a character not in this list, you will need to surround your name with quotation marks ", like in the above examples. To include a quotation mark as part of the name, escape them with a :

  /testfor @e[type=item,name="some name with spaces and "quotation marks""]
  

Limitations

• If you name an item “Ghast Tear”, the ghast tear command will run even if it were something else, like dirt.
• If someone has their language set to something else (i.e. Spanish) then this might not work, although you could make two command blocks testing for the Spanish name and another for the English name.
• If someone has a resource pack enabled that modifies the language files (i.e. maybe change the name Cooked Beef to Steak), this might not work
• The entity count returned by a /testfor of this may not reflect the number of dropped items, because when two items with the same properties are dropped next to each other, they like to group up into a single entity representing a stack of one or more items.