How to turn off phantoms in Minecraft

Run /gamerule spawn_phantoms false and phantoms no longer spawn, even for players who have not slept for nights.

spawn_phantoms

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

/gamerule spawn_phantoms <true|false>

Examples

/gamerule spawn_phantoms false

Turn phantoms off.

Values

Value	What it does
trueDefault	On
false	Off

Arguments

true|falseOptional: true turns the rule on, false turns it off. Leave it out to show the current value.

What it does

Set it to false so phantoms never appear, no matter how long players stay awake. A favorite on SMP servers where not everyone sleeps.

Good to know

Renamed from doInsomnia.

Run it on your server

On a SLASHPLAY server, type it in the Console tab without the leading slash; in game, operators type it in chat with the slash. New to this? Start a Minecraft server first.

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