COMMANDS

Bedrock Edition command syntax, examples, and key differences from Java.

8 guides in this category

Bedrock Edition Commands: Complete Guide

Overview of all Bedrock Edition commands, how they differ from Java, and tips for using the command system effectively.

10 min read

Bedrock /give Command: Syntax and Examples

Learn the Bedrock Edition /give command syntax, item IDs, data values, and practical examples for giving items to players.

7 min read

Bedrock /tp Command: Teleportation Guide

Master the /tp and /teleport commands in Bedrock Edition with syntax, relative coordinates, and practical teleportation examples.

6 min read

Bedrock /fill Command: Building Large Structures

Use the /fill command in Bedrock Edition to place, replace, and clear blocks in large areas. Includes syntax, modes, and examples.

7 min read

Bedrock /summon Command: Spawning Entities

Learn how to spawn mobs, items, and other entities in Bedrock Edition using the /summon command with positioning and naming.

6 min read

Bedrock /effect Command: Status Effects Guide

Apply, remove, and manage status effects on players and entities in Bedrock Edition using the /effect command.

6 min read

Bedrock /gamemode Command: Switching Game Modes

Switch between Survival, Creative, Adventure, and Spectator modes in Bedrock Edition using the /gamemode command.

5 min read

Bedrock /execute Command: Advanced Command Running

Master the Bedrock Edition /execute command to run commands as other entities, at specific locations, and with conditional logic.

9 min read

Cheats, achievements and permission levels

Most commands need cheats. You can turn them on when you create a world or later in the Cheats tab of the settings, but from that moment the world can no longer earn achievements, and switching cheats off again does not bring them back. Commands run from a server console, a function or a script work without cheats.

What a player may run also depends on their permission level. Everyone who joins a world starts at level 0, the host of a local world has level 3, and a Realm owner has level 1.

Level 0, Any: Chat commands such as /help, /list, /me and /tell.
Level 1, Game Directors: The everyday commands, from /give, /tp and /fill to /summon, /effect and /execute. Operators on Realms and external servers get this level.
Level 2, Admin: Adds /op, /deop, /place and /reload. Command blocks run at this level.
Level 3, Host: Adds /setmaxplayers, which is why a command block cannot run it.
Level 4, Owner: Server administration such as /allowlist, /changesetting, /save, /stop and /transfer.

Making another player an operator also turns achievements off for that world, permanently.

Commands only Bedrock has

/tickingarea: Keeps chunks loaded with no player nearby, as a rectangle or a circle, with up to 10 areas at a time. Java does the same job with /forceload.
/testfor: Counts entities that match a selector, while /testforblock checks for one block and /testforblocks compares two regions. Java removed all three in 1.13 and uses /execute if instead.
/replaceitem: Puts an item into a given slot of a player, a mob or a container. Java replaced it with /item replace in 1.17.
/toggledownfall: Turns clear weather into rain or snow, and rain, snow or a thunderstorm back into clear skies. Java dropped it in 1.13.
/mobevent: Switches the ender dragon, pillager patrol and wandering trader events on or off, or every mob event at once.
/inputpermission: Switches a player's camera, movement, jumping, sneaking, mounting and dismounting on or off.
/camera, /fog, /hud: Custom camera views and screen fades, fog settings per player, and hiding parts of the HUD.
/structure: Saves a build and loads it somewhere else without placing structure blocks.
/daylock: Stops the day-night cycle or lets it run again. /alwaysday is the same command under another name.

Java commands that will not paste into Bedrock

Target selectors: Bedrock writes r and rm for distance, c for the number of targets, l and lm for levels and m for game mode, where Java uses distance, limit with sort, level and gamemode. A negative c starts with the furthest targets. Bedrock adds family, hasitem and haspermission, and has no nbt, predicate, team or advancements.
Experience: Bedrock gives points with /xp 7 and levels with /xp 7L. The Java form, /xp add @s 7 levels, is not Bedrock syntax.
NBT: There is no /data command in Bedrock, so anything that reads or edits NBT in Java has no direct Bedrock version.
Missing commands: /bossbar, /team, /worldborder, /attribute, /trigger and /advancement do not exist in Bedrock.
/execute: Bedrock switched to the Java style of subcommands in 1.19.50, but it has eleven of them where Java has fourteen, and no store. Tutorials that write execute @a ~ ~ ~ date from before that change.

The complete Bedrock commands guide covers the basics, and these commands each have a page of their own: /give, /tp, /fill, /summon, /effect, /gamemode and /execute.

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