MINECRAFT COMMANDS

Complete reference for every vanilla command. Syntax, examples, permission levels. Updated for 1.21.

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Player

Commands that directly affect players, their inventory, experience, and status effects.

13 commands

World

Commands for modifying the world, placing blocks, summoning entities, and managing chunks.

10 commands

Time & Weather

Commands for controlling in-game time and weather conditions.

2 commands

Server

Commands for server administration, player management, and maintenance.

9 commands

Gameplay

Commands for changing difficulty, game rules, and default game modes.

3 commands

Data

Commands for managing NBT data, scoreboards, teams, tags, advancements, and recipes.

6 commands

Display

Commands for sending messages, titles, and text to players in chat or on screen.

5 commands

Execute

The execute command and its sub-commands for conditional and contextual command execution.

1 command

Logic

Commands for scheduling functions, spawning particles, and playing sounds.

4 commands

Bossbar

Commands for creating and managing custom boss bars displayed to players.

1 command

Special

Miscellaneous commands for debugging, publishing, tick control, and other special operations.

3 commands

Popular Commands

/give

Gives one or more items to one or more players. The item can include NBT data via component syntax.

/tp

Teleports entities to a specified location, to another entity, or with a specific rotation. Alias for /teleport.

/gamemode

Sets a player's game mode to survival, creative, adventure, or spectator.

/kill

Kills entities (players, mobs, or other entities). If no target is specified, kills the executing entity.

/effect

Gives or removes status effects from entities. Effects include potion effects like speed, strength, invisibility, etc.

/summon

Spawns an entity at a specified location, optionally with NBT data to customize the entity.

/fill

Fills a region between two coordinates with a specified block. Supports various fill modes and optional filtering.

/execute

Modifies the execution context of a command. Supports changing the executor, position, dimension, rotation, anchoring, and adding conditions. The most powerful and flexible command in the game.

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