Can't firgure out what's wrong with my Minecraft command

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I was gonna do a battle with my friends with commands when in my head I thought of a command that will summon a lightning and arrow on a snowball named 'h'
I did the command
Repeating Command Block 1: execute at @e[type=snowball,name=h] run summon lightning_bolt
Repeating Command Block 2: execute at @e[type=snowball,name=h] run summon arrow
It worked for like, a minute and when I actually tried it on my friend but it worked just like a regular snowball, the 'Previous Output' on the command block(s) said nothing, I really don't know if anything is wrong, might be because of my internet or the world glitched, please help me ;-;| version is Java 1.16.5 Optifine (don't really know if that will help but you never know)

Someguy Somewere · Answer

The command isn't the problem, when you throw a snowball it doesn't keep the name. Therefore when you throw the snowball it isn't named h.
To fix this you would need to:

Make a repeating commandblock with this command

execute at @a[nbt={SelectedItem:{id:"minecraft:snowball",tag:{display:{Name:'{"text":"h"}'}}}}] run tag @e[type=minecraft:snowball,distance=4..6] add h

This command will add the tag "h" to any nearby snowball if you are holding a snowball named h. Sadly it won't work if you only have 1 snowball left by this is the best I could come up with

Next, you need to make 2 other command blocks with these commands in them

execute at @e[type=minecraft:snowball,tag=h] run summon minecraft:lightning_bolt

execute at @e[type=minecraft:snowball,tag=h] run summon minecraft:arrow

This makes it so the arrows and lightning are summoned at any snowball with the tag h.
And now it should work, hope this helps

Can't firgure out what's wrong with my Minecraft command

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