I can't seem to find it in the Pen code section, help

Your have to go to the bar on the right, go down to where it says “extensions”. Press that, and then press the big box that says pen. Hope this helps

If you mean the bar on the left, I have opened it and got the pen out but for some reason, it's not there. It also doesn't show up on the "Set pen to " https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/399458187679498253/632542553094488084/unknown.png

set pen color to [#f0f]

If by shade you mean colour then this block is just in the pen extension.

Did pen ‘shade’ exist in earlier versions, I can't remember? If you're looking at some reference that mentions that block that might be the problem.

change pen shade by ()

This block doesn't exist. I think you meant “brightness” try that?

Pen shade did exist in Scratch 2 though. I still suspect they're following instructions fro something that referred to an earlier version.

You can backpack a “set pen shade to …” block from any Scratch 2 project that used it into Scratch 3.
It will work in Scratch 3.

Here is one such project: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/254282600/
Just drag the script in the project apart to get the “set pen shade to …” block (remove the math formula so it is just the “set pen shade to …” block).

Put the block in your backpack, then backpack it to your project.

Can someone please show me how to get this block!

set pen shade to ()

I_am_a_nerd28 wrote:

Can someone please show me how to get this block!

set pen shade to ()

The post above yours gives the answer

Tutor-42 wrote:

You can backpack a “set pen shade to …” block from any Scratch 2 project that used it into Scratch 3.
It will work in Scratch 3.

Here is one such project: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/254282600/
Just drag the script in the project apart to get the “set pen shade to …” block (remove the math formula so it is just the “set pen shade to …” block).

Put the block in your backpack, then backpack it to your project.

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