Minecraft cheats and commands

Minecraft cheats and commands you can use to change difficulty level, mine with a single click, get unlimited experience, don’t take damage and alter many elements in your world to make things a bit easier!

Turning on cheats in Minecraft : Java edition

When you are creating a new world you must follow these steps:

Click Singleplayer and then Create New World.
On the options page click Allow Cheats: ON.
Click Create New World in order to generate your world and then enter it.
Once your world is generated press the slash key (/). This will pull up the cheat menu.
Now type the cheat command of your preference.

If you want to enable cheats in a world you have already created then follow the steps below:

Open the game menu and the select Open To LAN.
Then click Allow Cheats: ON.
Click Start LAN World. This will allow you to enter Minecraft cheats and commands.

How to enable Minecraft : Bedrock Edition cheats and commands.

First you must Create a New World.
Scroll down in the game settings menu and select Activate Cheats.
Once your world is generated press the slash key (/) or right D-pad on Xbox and Playstation consoles to bring up the cheat menu.

If you want to enable cheats in a world that you have already created then follow these steps:

Press Esc key on your keyboard, or start / options button on your controller in order to pause your game.
Select Settings and scroll down to the cheats section and select Activate Cheats: ON.

Warning: Enabling cheats will disable all achievements for the current world.

Minecraft shortcut cheat codes

Here are some quick commands to use, instead of typing player names use the following shortcodes:

@s = yourself.
@p = the nearest player to you.
@a = all players in your world.
@e = all entities in the world.
@r = a random player.

Useful cheats and commands

/help <CommandName> : Get information about a command.
/kill [your player name or another player] : kills your player or the player you have specified.
/instantmine : One click mining with any tool.
/experience add <player> <amount> : adds the specified experience points the player of your choice.
/summon <creature or object> : instantly summons a creature or object of your desire.
/tp [player name] <x y z> : teleport the specified player to the exact coordinates you have entered.
/give <Player name> <Item> <Amount> : Gives another player an item from your inventory.
/gamerule keepInventory true : Don’t lose your items upon dying.
/seed : Lets you find your current world’s seed code.
/difficulty <level> : Choose the difficulty level from peaceful, easy, normal and hard.
/freeze : Stops mobs or creatures in their tracks.

Damage cheat commands

/itemdamage : Weapons no longer degrade.
/waterdamage : Turn water damage on or off.
/falldamage : Turn fall damage on or off.
/firedamage : Turn fire damage on or off.

More useful Minecraft cheats and commands

/weather <type> <duration> : Sets the weather type from clear, rain,or thunder and the duration in seconds.
/time set <value> This will set the world game time. Input 0 for Dawn, 1000 for Morning, 6000 for Midday, 12000 for Dusk, and 18000 for Night.
/instantplant : Watch a planted seed grow instantly.

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/atlantis : Raises the world’s water level, submerging everything except very tall mountains.
/gamemode <type> <player> : Choose gamemode from spectator, survival, creative or adventure for you or another player.
/ride : Make the creature you are looking at into a mount.
/duplicate : Copies and drops the item you have equipped.
/gamerule doDaylightCycle false : Turn off the day – night cycle. Replace false with true to activate again.
/gamerule mobGriefing false : Enemy mobs cannot destroy blocks. Replace false with true to reactivate.

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