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MINECRAFT COMMANDS

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

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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.

When Each Command Was Added

The 57 commands on this site span the whole history of Java Edition. The oldest is /op, which dates from Classic 0.0.16a. The newest is /tick, added in 1.20.3. Each command page lists the version that first had it.

Classic 8 commands

The first multiplayer servers needed a way to manage players, so the oldest commands are about operators, bans and kicks.

/op/deop/ban/kick/say/teleport/tp/me

Alpha 6 commands

Alpha brought the dedicated server tools: saving, stopping, listing players, giving items and private messages.

/give/stop/save-all/list/msg/kill

Beta 3 commands

Beta added control over the world itself, starting with the time of day, the game mode and the whitelist.

/time/whitelist/gamemode

1.0 to 1.12 31 commands

Between 1.0 and 1.12 commands grew into a building and map making toolkit, with command blocks, scoreboards, execute and functions.

/xp/seed/defaultgamemode/publish/debug/clear/spawnpoint/weather/difficulty/gamerule/enchant/effect/scoreboard/spreadplayers/playsound/setblock/summon/setworldspawn/tellraw/trigger/fill/clone/worldborder/title/execute/particle/locate/reload/advancement/recipe/function

1.13 6 commands

1.13 rewrote the whole command system with a new parser, tab completion and error highlighting, and added several commands on top.

/experience/data/team/tag/bossbar/forceload

1.14 and later 3 commands

Since 1.14 new commands arrive one at a time, usually to give servers and data packs control over something that was fixed before.

/schedule/spectate/tick

Commands by Permission Level

On a server, operators get a permission level from 0 to 4, and each command needs a minimum level. This is how the 57 commands here are spread over those levels.

Level 0: Every player

4 commands

No operator status needed. Anyone on the server can run these.

/trigger/list/msg/me

Level 1: Spawn protection

0 commands

Lets a player build inside the spawn protection area. No command on this site needs exactly this level.

Level 2: Game commands

43 commands

The level for changing the game and the world. Command blocks and functions run at this level too.

/give/clear/xp/experience/kill/gamemode/effect/enchant/spawnpoint/tp/teleport/spectate/setblock/fill/clone/summon/setworldspawn/seed/worldborder/forceload/locate/spreadplayers/time/weather/reload/difficulty/gamerule/defaultgamemode/data/scoreboard/team/tag/advancement/recipe/title/tellraw/say/execute/schedule/function/particle/playsound/bossbar

Level 3: Player management

7 commands

Commands that manage who may play: operators, bans, kicks and the whitelist.

/op/deop/ban/kick/whitelist/debug/tick

Level 4: Server administration

3 commands

Everything, including stopping and saving the server. New operators get this level unless op-permission-level in server.properties says otherwise.

/save-all/stop/publish

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