General Information

Why even whitelist? Nowadays anyone can figure out the IP and port to a server and grief your world. You can whitelist your server, blocking strangers and only letting people you know in.

The commands in this wiki are provided without the / (slash) included. If you are executing these commands via Console, the slash is already assumed. When running the commands as OP in-game, you will need the / (slash) to properly execute the commands.

Respectively, Java uses whitelist while Bedrock uses allowlist. Generally the commands are the same but are provided depending on which server you're running.

Java Edition

Commands

whitelist add <name>

• Adds the player profile(s) to the whitelist. The player does not need to be online.

whitelist list

• Displays all player profiles in the whitelist.

whitelist off

• Disables the server’s use of a whitelist.

whitelist on

• Enables the server’s use of a whitelist.

whitelist reload

• Reloads the list of player profiles in whitelist.json from disk (used when the file has been modified outside of Minecraft).

whitelist remove <name>

• Removes the player profile(s) from the whitelist. The player does not need to be online.

Bedrock Edition

Allowlist Commands

allowlist add <name>

• Adds the player to the allowlist. The player does not need to be online.

allowlist list

• Displays all player names in the allowlist.

allowlist off

• Disables the server’s use of an allowlist.

allowlist on

• Enables the server’s use of an allowlist.

allowlist reload

• Reloads the list of players in allowlist.json from disk.

allowlist remove <name>

• Removes the player from the allowlist. The player does not need to be online.