Minecraft Admin Commands
Essential Minecraft server commands for OP management, player control, and world editing.
Becoming an Operator
You must be an op to use admin commands in-game.
Add yourself as op from Settings > Player Management > "Admins / Operators", or run "op <yourname>" in the Console tab.
Ops are stored in ops.json at the server root. You can edit it from the Files tab with the server stopped.
A new op gets the level from op-permission-level in Settings, which defaults to 4 (full control). See OP Permission Levels.
Player Commands
/tp <player> <target> - teleport one player to another.
/tp <player> <x> <y> <z> - teleport to coordinates.
/gamemode <mode> [player] - change gamemode for yourself or another player.
/kick <player> [reason] - kick a player.
/ban <player> [reason] - ban a player permanently.
/pardon <player> - unban a player.
/ban-ip <ip> - ban an IP address.
/pardon-ip <ip> - unban an IP address.
/op <player> - make a player an operator.
/deop <player> - remove operator status.
World and Time Commands
/time set day - set time to day.
/time set night - set time to night.
/time set <value> - set time to a specific tick value.
/weather clear - clear weather.
/weather rain - make it rain.
/weather thunder - make it storm.
/gamerule <rule> <value> - change a game rule (e.g. keepInventory, mobGriefing).
Item and Block Commands
/give <player> <item> [count] - give items to a player.
/clear [player] [item] - clear inventory or specific items.
/setblock <x> <y> <z> <block> - place a block.
/fill <x1> <y1> <z1> <x2> <y2> <z2> <block> - fill a region with blocks.
/clone <x1> <y1> <z1> <x2> <y2> <z2> <x> <y> <z> - copy a region.
Server Commands
/save-all - force-save the world.
/save-on, /save-off - enable or disable auto-saving.
/stop - shut down the server gracefully.
/list - list online players.
/whitelist add/remove <player> - manage the whitelist.
/whitelist on/off - enable or disable the whitelist.
/tps - show server ticks per second (Paper only). 20 TPS = perfect. Below 15 = noticeable lag.
These can all be run from the GameGrid Console tab without being in game. Type them there without the leading slash - the console is not chat, and that is the form the platform itself uses.
Two of these have a panel equivalent that is easier to get right and persists properly: bans and the whitelist are in Settings > Player Management.
Running these on a schedule
Any of the commands above can be put on a repeating schedule — a save every half hour, daylight each morning, a restart warning that counts down accurately, an item for everyone online — from the Command Manager tab on the Event Manager page.
Minecraft has one advantage here that no other game we host does: @a is part of the game's own command language, so "give this to everybody online" is a single command rather than one per player.
It also has one quirk worth knowing before you read a log. Minecraft's console returns nothing, so a scheduled command is recorded as "Sent, unconfirmed" rather than given a success it cannot be checked against.
The full walkthrough, the 24 schedulable commands, and the schedules worth building are in Minecraft Command Manager.