Minecraft
List and summary of commands
The table below summarizes all commands.
Command | Description | BE | EE | JE | JE OP level | BE&EE OP level | MP only |
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/xp
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An alias of /experience [Java Edition only]. Adds or removes player experience.
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Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/wsserver
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An alias of /connect . Attempts to connect to the websocket server.
|
Yes | Yes | — | — | 0[edu only]
2[BE only] |
— |
/worldbuilder
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An alias of /wb . Ability to edit restricted blocks.
|
Yes | Yes | — | — | 1 | — |
/worldborder
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Manages the world border. | — | — | Yes | 2 | — | — |
/whitelist
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Manages server whitelist. | Yes | — | Yes | 3 | 4 | MP |
/weather
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Sets the weather. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/wb
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An alias of /worldbuilder . Ability to edit restricted blocks.
|
Yes | Yes | — | — | 1 | — |
/warden_spawn_tracker
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Sets the spawn state of the warden. | — | — | Removed | 2 | — | — |
/w
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An alias of /tell and /msg . Displays a private message to other players.
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Yes | Yes | Yes | 0 | 0 | — |
/volumearea
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Add, remove, or list volume areas. | Yes | — | — | — | 1 | — |
/trigger
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Sets a trigger to be activated. | — | — | Yes | 0 | — | — |
/tp
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An alias of /teleport . Teleports entities.
|
Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/toggledownfall
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Toggles the weather. | Yes | Yes | Removed | 2 | 1 | — |
/tm
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An alias of /teammsg . Specifies the message to send to team.
|
— | — | Yes | 0 | — | — |
/titleraw
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Controls screen titles with JSON messages. | Yes | Yes | — | — | 1 | — |
/title
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Manages screen titles. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/time
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Changes or queries the world's game time. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/tickingarea
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Add, remove, or list ticking areas. | Yes | Yes | — | — | 1 | — |
/testforblocks
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Tests whether the blocks in two regions match. | Yes | Yes | Removed | 2 | 1 | — |
/testforblock
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Tests whether a block is in a location. | Yes | Yes | Removed | 2 | 1 | — |
/testfor
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Counts entities matching specified conditions. | Yes | Yes | Removed | 2 | 1 | — |
/tellraw
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Displays a JSON message to players. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/tell
|
An alias of /msg and /w . Displays a private message to other players.
|
Yes | Yes | Yes | 0 | 0 | — |
/teleport
|
An alias of /tp . Teleports entities.
|
Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/teammsg
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An alias of /tm . Specifies the message to send to team.
|
— | — | Yes | 0 | — | — |
/team
|
Controls teams. | — | — | Yes | 2 | — | — |
/tag
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Controls entity tags. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/summon
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Summons an entity. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/structure
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Used to save and load structures without having to use structure blocks items in inventories. | Yes | — | — | — | 1 | — |
/stopsound
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Stops a sound. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/stop
|
Stops a server. | Yes | — | Yes | 4 | 4 | MP |
/spreadplayers
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Teleports entities to random locations. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/spectate
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Make one player in spectator mode spectate an entity. | — | — | Yes | 2 | — | — |
/spawnpoint
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Sets the spawn point for a player. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/setworldspawn
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Sets the world spawn. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/setmaxplayers
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Sets the maximum number of players allowed to join. | Yes | Yes | — | — | 3 | — |
/setidletimeout
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Sets the time before idle players are kicked. | — | — | Yes | 3 | — | MP |
/setblock
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Changes a block to another block. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/seed
|
Displays the world seed. | — | — | Yes | 0 in singleplayer
2 in multiplayer |
— | — |
/scriptevent
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[more information needed]. | Yes | — | — | — | ? | — |
/script
|
[more information needed]. | Yes | — | — | — | ? | — |
/scoreboard
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Manages scoreboard objectives and players. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/schedule
|
Delays the execution of a function. | Yes | — | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/say
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Displays a message to multiple players. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/save-on
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Enables automatic server saves. | — | — | Yes | 4 | — | MP |
/save-off
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Disables automatic server saves. | — | — | Yes | 4 | — | MP |
/save-all
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Saves the server to disk. | — | — | Yes | 4 | — | MP |
/save
|
Prepares a backup, queries its status, or resumes. | Yes | — | — | — | 4 | MP |
/ride
|
Used to make entities ride other entities, stop entities from riding, make rides evict their riders, or summon rides or riders. | Yes | — | Yes | — | 1 | — |
/replaceitem
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Replaces items in inventories. | Yes | Yes | Removed | 2 | 1 | — |
/remove
|
Removing agent. | — | ? | — | — | 2 | — |
/reload
|
Reloads loot tables, advancements, and functions from disk. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 2 | — |
/recipe
|
Gives or takes player recipes. | — | — | Yes | 2 | — | — |
/publish
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Opens single-player world to local network. | — | — | Yes | 4 | — | SP only |
/playsound
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Plays a sound. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/playanimation
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Used to run a one-off animation. | Yes | — | — | — | 1 | — |
/place
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Used to place a configured feature, jigsaw, template, or structure at a given location. | — | — | Yes | 2 | — | — |
/permission
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An alias of /ops . Reloads and applies permissions.
|
Yes | Yes | — | — | 4 | MP |
/perf
|
Captures info and metrics about the game for 10 seconds. | — | — | Yes | 4 | — | MP |
/particle
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Creates particles. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/pardon-ip
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Removes entries from the banlist. | — | — | Yes | 3 | — | MP |
/pardon
|
Removes entries from the banlist. | — | — | Yes | 3 | — | MP |
/ops
|
An alias of /permission . Reloads and applies permissions.
|
Yes | Yes | — | — | 4 | MP |
/op
|
Grants operator status to a player. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 3 | 2 | MP[Java Edition only] |
/music
|
Allows the player to control playing music tracks. | Yes | — | — | — | 1 | — |
/msg
|
An alias of /tell and /w . Displays a private message to other players.
|
Yes | Yes | Yes | 0 | 0 | — |
/mobevent
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Enables/disables a specified mob event. | Yes | Yes | — | — | 1 | — |
/me
|
Displays a message about the sender. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 0 | 0 | — |
/loot
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Drops items from an inventory slot onto the ground. | Yes | — | Yes | 2 | 2 | — |
/locate
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Locates closest structure, biome, or point of interest. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/list
|
Lists players on the server. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 0 | 0 | — |
/kill
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Kills entities (players, mobs, items, etc.). | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/kick
|
Kicks a player off a server. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 3 | 1 | — |
/jfr
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Starts or stops a JFR profiling. | — | — | Yes | 4 | — | — |
/item
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Manipulates items in inventories. | — | — | Yes | 2 | — | — |
/immutableworld
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Allows setting immutable state of a world. | Yes | Yes | — | — | 1 | — |
/help
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An alias of /? . Provides help for commands.
|
Yes | Yes | Yes | 0 | 0 | — |
/give
|
Gives an item to a player. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/gametest
|
To test the GameTest features. | Yes | — | — | — | 1 | — |
/gamerule
|
Sets or queries a game rule value. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/gamemode
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Sets a player's game mode. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/function
|
Runs a function. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/forceload
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Forces chunks to constantly be loaded or not. | — | — | Yes | 2 | — | — |
/fog
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Used for managing active fog settings for players. | Yes | — | — | — | 1 | — |
/fillbiome
|
Fills a region with a specific biome. | — | — | Yes | 2 | — | — |
/fill
|
Fills a region with a specific block. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/experience
|
An alias of /xp . Adds or removes player experience.
|
— | — | Yes | 2 | — | — |
/execute
|
Executes another command. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/event
|
Used to trigger an event on an entity. | Yes | — | — | — | 1 | — |
/enchant
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Adds an enchantment to a player's selected item. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/effect
|
Adds or removes status effects. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/difficulty
|
Sets the difficulty level. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/dialogue
|
Opens NPC dialogue for a player. | Yes | Yes | — | — | 1 | — |
/deop
|
Revokes operator status from a player. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 3 | 2 | MP[Java Edition only] |
/defaultgamemode
|
Sets the default game mode. | — | — | Yes | 2 | — | — |
/dedicatedwsserver
|
Attempts to connect to the websocket server. | Yes | — | — | — | 0 | MP |
/debug
|
Starts or stops a debugging session. | — | — | Yes | 3 | — | — |
/daylock
|
An alias of /alwaysday . Locks and unlocks the day-night cycle.
|
Yes | Yes | — | — | 1 | — |
/datapack
|
Controls loaded data packs. | — | — | Yes | 2 | — | — |
/data
|
Gets, merges, modifies and removes block entity and entity NBT data. | — | — | Yes | 2 | — | — |
/damage
|
Applies damage to the specified entities. | Yes | — | Yes | — | 1 | — |
/connect
|
An alias of /wsserver . Attempts to connect to the websocket server.
|
Yes | Yes | — | — | 0[edu only]
2[BE only] |
— |
/clone
|
Copies blocks from one place to another. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/clearspawnpoint
|
Remove spawnpoints in the world. | Yes | Yes | — | — | 1 | — |
/clear
|
Clears items from player inventory. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | 1 | — |
/changesetting
|
Changes a setting on the dedicated server while it's running. | Yes | — | — | — | 4 | MP |
/camerashake
|
Used to enable a camera shaking effect. | Yes | Yes | — | — | 1 | — |
/bossbar
|
Creates and modifies bossbars. | — | — | Yes | 2 | — | — |
/banlist
|
Displays banlist. | — | — | Yes | 3 | — | MP |
/ban-ip
|
Adds IP address to banlist. | — | — | Yes | 3 | — | MP |
/ban
|
Adds player to banlist. | — | — | Yes | 3 | — | MP |
/attribute
|
Queries, adds, removes or sets an entity attribute. | — | — | Yes | 2 | — | — |
/alwaysday
|
An alias of /daylock . Locks and unlocks the day-night cycle.
|
Yes | Yes | — | — | 1 | — |
/advancement
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Gives, removes, or checks player advancements. | — | — | Yes | 2 | — | — |
/ability
|
Grants or revokes a player ability. | Yes | Yes | — | — | 1 | — |
/?
|
An alias of /help . Provides help for commands.
|
Yes | Yes | Removed | 0 | 0 | — |
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---|---|---|---|
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