Uploaded May 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Minecraft player facing commands, and an arrow machine gun as an example.
UPDATE:
this by @conure512 is a MUCH better way to do it!:
youtube.com/watch?v=eoivBw-YbrY

Knowledge is power and knowing your entity target selectors like y_rotation and how rotation works can help you put things in the right place, rotate players correctly, and with the ^ ^ ^ carats put things IN FRONT of the player!

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execute as @p[y_rotation=157.5..-157.5] at @s run summon arrow ^ ^1 ^2 {Rotation:[0f,0f],Motion:[0d,0d,-1d]}
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execute as @p[y_rotation=-157.5..-112.5] at @s run summon arrow ^ ^1 ^2 {Rotation:[0f,0f],Motion:[1d,0d,-1d]}
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execute as @p[y_rotation=-112.5..-67.5] at @s run summon arrow ^ ^1 ^2 {Rotation:[0f,0f],Motion:[1d,0d,0d]}
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execute as @p[y_rotation=-67.5..-22.5] at @s run summon arrow ^ ^1 ^2 {Rotation:[0f,0f],Motion:[1d,0d,1d]}
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execute as @p[y_rotation=-22.5..22.5] at @s run summon arrow ^ ^1 ^2 {Rotation:[0f,0f],Motion:[0d,0d,1d]}
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execute as @p[y_rotation=22.5..67.5] at @s run summon arrow ^ ^1 ^2 {Rotation:[0f,0f],Motion:[-1d,0d,1d]}
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execute as @p[y_rotation=67.5..112.5] at @s run summon arrow ^ ^1 ^2 {Rotation:[0f,0f],Motion:[-1d,0d,0d]}
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execute as @p[y_rotation=112.5..157.5] at @s run summon arrow ^ ^1 ^2 {Rotation:[0f,0f],Motion:[-1d,0d,-1d]}

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