Identify Items with Scrolls in Vanilla Minecraft!

Identify Items in Vanilla Minecraft

It appears I have found a chest in this dungeon I totally didn't build thirty seconds ago. Let's open it!

Oh, a sword! It kind of sucks, though, only doing 3 damage and all. But I can identify it! If only I had something to identify it with!

How convenient! The other chest had exactly what I needed.

Alright. *throws scroll*

Hm... It seems I can identify something.

How about that sword from earlier?

(why is there another one in my hand?)

Sweet! That pathetic sword was actually a legendary item! It's a lot stronger and has a special ability!

Command Blocks

I don't want to delve to deep into them, but these basically detect when you throw the identity scroll and display the message. Using the trick I found earlier with custom NBT lists, it only works for papers with the text "scroll" in an "identify" list.

These command blocks detect when you throw a diamond sword with "diamond_sword" in the identify list. They kill it and give you an identified one. The middle command block with the redstone ore in front gives you the originality sword every time, but you could hook it up to something else.

Such as this--a redstone block would be set on the ore and destroyed by the command block above, then the dispenser would spit a command block out to give you a random item.

This is just a very basic concept for this. You could hook it up where all types of tools and armor would give you a random identified version of themselves, some even requiring stronger identify scrolls. There's definitely a lot of potential.

Thanks for taking a look!