Minecraft console commands

Changes the game mode of yourself or other players to survival, creative, adventure or spectator.

Sets the default game mode for players: survival, creative, adventure or spectator.

Puts items into players' inventories, with an optional count and item components such as enchantments or names.

Moves players or entities to coordinates or to another entity, optionally setting where they face.

Sets, adds or shows the time of day, and in 26.x can also pause the clock or change its speed.

Sets the weather to clear, rain or thunder, with an optional duration.

Shows or changes a game rule, such as keeping inventory on death or the percentage of players needed to sleep.

Makes a player a server operator, with access to commands up to the level set in server.properties.

Turns the server whitelist on or off and adds or removes the players allowed to join.

Controls whether players keep their items and experience when they die.

Shows or changes the world difficulty: peaceful, easy, normal or hard.

Sets the world difficulty: peaceful, easy, normal or hard.

Sets the maximum number of players who can be online at once.

Spawns any entity, from mobs and armor stands to lightning bolts, at a position with optional NBT data.

Grants or revokes advancements for players, from a single criterion up to every advancement at once.

Gives or clears status effects like speed, night vision or regeneration, with a duration in seconds and a level.

Adds, sets or shows experience points or levels for players.

Looks up a player profile by name, UUID or entity and shows the result in chat.

Unlocks or locks crafting recipes in a player's recipe book.

Sets where a player respawns after dying, like a bed but at any position you choose.

Makes a spectator-mode player view the game through another entity's eyes, or stops spectating.

Teleports players or entities to random surface spots around a center point, a minimum distance apart.

Teleports players or entities to coordinates or another entity, as the short alias of /teleport.

Lists waypoints shown on the locator bar and changes their color or icon style.

Adds, sets or shows experience points or levels for players, as the short alias of /experience.

Removes items from player inventories, either everything or a specific item and amount.

Adds an enchantment to the item a player or mob is holding, within the normal level and compatibility limits.

Replaces or modifies items in specific slots of players, mobs or containers.

Drops or gives items from a loot table, a mined block, a killed mob or a fishing catch.

Copies a box of blocks to another place, with options to skip air, filter blocks, move and copy across dimensions.

Covers a box between two corners with one block, with modes for hollow shapes, outlines and replacing one block type.

Changes the biome in a box of blocks, for example to turn part of a world into a cherry grove.

Keeps chunks loaded at all times, even with no players nearby, or lists and removes forced chunks.

Finds the nearest structure, biome or point of interest and shows its coordinates in chat.

Generates a feature, structure, jigsaw or structure template at a position, the way world generation would.

Shows the world seed in chat, where you can click it to copy.

Places a single block at a position, with options to keep, destroy or replace what is already there.

Sets the world spawn point, where new players appear and where players without a bed respawn.

Sets the size, center and damage of the world border, and can grow or shrink it over time.

Reads or changes entity attributes like max health, movement speed and scale.

Deals a set amount of damage to an entity, with an optional damage type, source position or attacker.

Instantly kills players or entities, including players in creative mode.

Makes an entity mount another entity, or dismounts it from whatever it is riding.

Changes the facing direction of an entity, to set exact angles or turn it toward a position or entity.

Plays the arm swing animation for players or mobs, with the main hand or the off hand.

Blocks players from joining the server by name, with an optional reason shown when they try to connect.

Bans an IP address, or the current IP of an online player, so no account can join from it.

Lists the banned players or banned IP addresses on the server.

Sets the game mode that new players get when they join the world for the first time.

Removes operator status from a player, taking away their access to op commands.

Lists the commands you can use, or shows the syntax of one command.

Disconnects players from the server, with an optional reason. They can rejoin right away.

Shows how many players are online and their names, optionally with their UUIDs.

Removes a player from the ban list so they can join again.

Removes an IP address from the IP ban list.

Opens a singleplayer world to your local network (LAN), optionally allowing commands and choosing a port.

Saves the world and player data to disk right away, optionally writing everything out in one go.

Turns off automatic world saving, typically while a backup copies the world folder.

Turns automatic world saving back on after save-off.

Kicks players automatically after they have been idle for a set number of minutes, or turns that off with 0.

Saves the world, disconnects all players and shuts the server down cleanly.

Sends players to another server address without them having to go back to the menu.

Stops sharing a singleplayer world over LAN, so LAN players can no longer join.

Shows the game version the server is running, along with related version details.

Creates and controls custom boss bars at the top of the screen, for timers, events or progress displays.

Opens a dialog screen for players, such as the server links screen or a custom dialog, or closes it.

Posts an action message in chat, shown as an asterisk followed by your name and the text.

Sends a private message to one or more players that only they can see.

Broadcasts a message to every player in chat, prefixed with the sender's name.

Sends a chat message only to the members of your own team.

Sends a private message to one or more players, as an alias of /msg.

Sends a formatted chat message, written as a text component, with colors, hover text and click actions.

Shows a large title, subtitle or action bar message on players' screens, with custom fade timing.

Sends a chat message only to your own team, as the short alias of /teammsg.

Sends a private message to one or more players, as the shortest alias of /msg.

Reads, merges, changes or removes NBT data on blocks, entities and command storage.

Creates scoreboard objectives, changes player scores and shows them in the sidebar, tab list or under names.

Creates and reads named stopwatches that measure elapsed time, for timers in functions and maps.

Adds, removes or lists scoreboard tags on entities, which you can then target with tag= in selectors.

Creates teams and sets their color, friendly fire, name tag visibility and collision for groups of players.

Lets any player change their own score on a trigger objective, to activate map or data pack features.

Evaluates a number provider and returns the result, for random or computed values in functions.

Lists, enables and disables data packs on the world, and controls their load order.

Runs another command with a changed executor, position, rotation or dimension, or only when conditions are met.

Runs a function from a data pack: a list of commands stored in a .mcfunction file.

Spawns particle effects at a position, with spread, speed and count, for decoration or map effects.

Plays a sound for players at a position, with a sound category, volume and pitch.

Applies, removes or lists post-processing screen effects on players' screens.

Rolls a random number in a range, either shown only to you or announced to everyone in chat.

Loads changes to all data packs, including functions, loot tables, recipes and advancements, without a restart.

Ends the current function early and returns a value, a failure, or the result of another command.

Runs a function after a delay in ticks, seconds or in-game days, or cancels a scheduled function.

Stops sounds or music playing for players, all of them or only one category or sound.

Starts or stops a tick profiling session, or traces every command a function runs into a file.

Starts or stops a Java Flight Recorder profile for deep analysis of server performance.

Records 10 seconds of server performance data and saves a report to the debug folder.

Runs, creates and manages GameTest structures, the automated test framework for data packs and mods.

Freezes, steps, speeds up or changes the game tick rate, and shows server tick performance.

Controls whether players take damage when they run out of air underwater.

Controls whether the server checks elytra flight for movement that is too fast.

Controls whether thrown ender pearls disappear when the player who threw them dies.

Controls whether players take damage from falling.

Controls whether players take damage from fire, lava and burning.

Controls whether players take damage from freezing in powder snow.

Controls whether players respawn right away without the death screen.

Controls whether players can only craft recipes they have unlocked.

Controls whether the locator bar shows the direction of other players on the HUD.

Controls whether players regain health over time from a full hunger bar.

Controls whether the server checks player movement for moving too fast.

Sets how long, in ticks, a creative mode player must stand in a nether portal before teleporting.

Sets how long, in ticks, a player outside creative must stand in a nether portal before teleporting.

Sets the percentage of players who must sleep to skip the night.

Controls whether players can damage each other.

Controls whether the F3 debug screen hides coordinates and other detailed info.

Sets how many blocks from the world spawn point players without a bed can respawn.

Controls whether the day and night cycle moves forward or the time of day stays frozen.

Controls whether the weather changes on its own or stays as it is.

Controls whether players can travel to the Nether through nether portals.

Sets how close to a player, in blocks, fire can spread and burn blocks.

Controls whether some boss and world event sounds, like a wither spawning or the end portal opening, are heard by every player.

Controls whether flowing lava between two lava sources turns into a new source block.

Sets how many layers of snow can pile up on a block during snowfall.

Controls whether projectiles can break blocks they are able to destroy, like decorated pots or chorus flowers.

Sets how many random block ticks happen per chunk section each game tick, which drives crop growth, leaf decay and more.

Controls whether players in spectator mode load and generate new chunks.

Controls whether vines spread to nearby blocks over time.

Controls whether TNT explodes when lit.

Controls whether flowing water between two water sources becomes a new source block.

Controls whether angered neutral mobs stop being angry when the player they target dies.

Sets how many entities can share one block space before they start taking suffocation damage.

Controls whether mobs can change blocks, like creepers blowing up terrain or endermen picking up blocks.

Controls whether raids can start when a player with Bad Omen enters a village.

Controls whether mobs spawn naturally in the world.

Controls whether hostile mobs spawn naturally.

Controls whether pillager patrols spawn.

Controls whether phantoms spawn when players have not slept for a few nights.

Controls whether wandering traders spawn.

Controls whether wardens can be summoned by sculk shriekers.

Controls whether monster spawner blocks spawn mobs.

Controls whether angered neutral mobs attack every nearby player, not only the one who provoked them.

Controls whether broken blocks drop items.

Controls whether some blocks blown up by block explosions, like beds or respawn anchors, are lost instead of dropping.

Controls whether non-mob entities like minecarts, boats, item frames and armor stands drop items when broken.

Controls whether mobs drop loot and experience when killed.

Controls whether some blocks blown up by mobs, like creepers, are destroyed instead of dropping.

Controls whether some blocks blown up by TNT are destroyed instead of dropping.

Controls whether command blocks announce the commands they run in chat to operators.

Controls whether command blocks run their commands.

Controls whether commands run by operators are written to the server log.

Sets the maximum number of blocks a single command like /fill or /clone can change.

Sets the maximum number of execution contexts one command chain or function can create.

Sets the maximum number of commands a single function or command chain can run in one tick.

Controls whether command results are shown in chat to the player who ran them.

Controls whether chat announces when a player earns an advancement.

Controls whether death messages are shown in chat.

Makes a new world hardcore: one life each, and players who die become spectators.

Sets how many chained block updates can happen in a row before the rest are skipped.

Sets how many seconds the server waits with no players online before it pauses the game.

Controls whether villages, temples, strongholds and other structures generate in new chunks.

Sets custom world generation options as JSON, used for superflat worlds.

Sets which datapacks are turned off when the world is first created.

Sets which datapacks, including experimental feature packs, are turned on when the world is first created.

Sets the name of the world folder the server loads.

Sets the seed used to generate a new world.

Sets the world type for new worlds, such as normal, flat, large biomes or amplified.

Sets the maximum radius of the world in blocks, which limits where the world border can go.

Sets the compression used when saving chunks to region files: deflate, lz4 or none.

Sets how many chunks around each player are actively ticked, for mobs, crops and redstone.

Controls whether chunks are written to disk synchronously.

Sets how many chunks around each player the server sends, which decides how far players can see.

Controls whether players flying in survival mode get kicked by the anti-fly check.

Sets the time window, in seconds, the chat spam check uses before kicking players for sending messages too fast.

Sets the time window, in seconds, the command spam check uses before kicking players for running commands too fast.

Controls whether players are shown a server code of conduct they must accept when joining.

Controls whether players must have a Mojang signed public key to join, which enables secure chat signing.

Controls whether players not on the whitelist are kicked when the whitelist is reloaded or turned on.

Controls whether players are put into the default game mode every time they join.

Controls whether player IP addresses are written to the server log when they join.

Controls whether players are checked against Mojang's account servers when they join.

Sets how many minutes a player can be idle before being kicked.

Controls whether players are refused when their IP does not match the one they used to log in to Mojang.

Sets the radius around world spawn where only operators can build or break blocks.

Sets the configuration for an external chat text filtering service.

Sets which version of the text filtering configuration format is used.

Controls whether only players on the whitelist can join.

Controls whether the server accepts players sent over from another server with the /transfer command.

Sets a link players can open from the pause menu to report bugs on your server.

Controls whether the server answers GameSpy4 query requests used by server list sites and status tools.

Controls whether the server shows up as online in the multiplayer server list.

Sets how far away entities are sent to players, as a percentage of the default distance.

Controls whether the list of online player names is hidden from the server list.

Sets the message shown under the server name in the multiplayer server list.

Sets the packet size, in bytes, above which network packets are compressed.

Sets the UDP port the query protocol listens on.

Sets the maximum number of packets a player may send per second before being kicked.

Sets the IP address the server binds to.

Sets the TCP port the server listens on for players.

Controls whether the server uses Linux native networking (epoll) for better network performance.

Controls whether players must accept the server resource pack to stay connected.

Sets the download URL of the resource pack sent to players when they join.

Sets a UUID that identifies the server resource pack on the client.

Sets a custom message shown in the resource pack prompt.

Sets the SHA-1 hash of the resource pack so clients can verify it and use their cached copy.

Controls whether commands run from the server console are shown to online operators.

Controls whether commands run over RCON are shown to online operators.

Controls whether the server exposes tick time statistics through Java JMX for monitoring tools.

Controls whether remote console (RCON) access is turned on.

Sets the permission level that functions from datapacks run with.

Sets which web origins may connect to the management server from a browser.

Controls whether the server management protocol, a JSON-RPC API over WebSocket, is turned on.

Sets the address the management server listens on.

Sets the port the management server listens on.

Sets the secret token clients must send to use the management server.

Controls whether the management server uses TLS encryption.

Sets the path to the keystore file with the TLS certificate for the management server.

Sets the password for the management server's TLS keystore.

Sets how long, in milliseconds, one server tick may take before the watchdog stops the server.

Sets the default permission level given to players made operator with /op.

Sets the password RCON clients must send to connect.

Sets the TCP port RCON listens on.

Sets how often, in seconds, the management server sends status heartbeat notifications to connected clients.