How to tell a player something privately in Minecraft

Type /tell Steve meet me at spawn in chat and only Steve sees the message. It works the same as /msg.

tell

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

/tell <targets> <message>

Examples

/tell Steve meet me at spawn

Whispers to Steve.

Arguments

targetsRequired: Player name or selector.
messageRequired: Text to send.

What it does

tell redirects to msg, so it takes the same arguments: the recipients and the message. Only the recipients see it.

Good to know

Alias of msg.

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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