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How to get OP on a Minecraft Server

Managing your Server

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Sep 12, 2024

Operators (OPs) have access to a range of commands that are used to help moderate a server. A few of the available commands for Ops are changing a player's game mode, updating server difficulty, giving items, kicking and banning players, whitelisting, and even stopping and restarting a server. You can view a full list of commands available to OPs here.

Please Note

If you're using Bedrock Edition you will need to also enable cheats on your server.

Using the Server Console

Making a player an operator through your server's control panel is simple, requiring only a single command. This is the fastest method of opping players if your server doesn't have any operators yet.

Step 1:

Open your server's control panel

Open your server's control panel
Step 2:

In the Console window, enter the OP command

Type the command op <Username>, replacing <Username> with the name of the player you would like to OP, in the Console window then press Enter to send the command.

For example, entering OP Steve will give the player named Steve operator permissions.

If the username of the player you're trying to OP has a space in their name, you will have to surround their username with quotes, like so: op "Minecraft Fan123"

Send the op command to give op permissions

Using OP Commands In-game

If you already have OP, you can give other people OP in-game.

Step 1:

Connect to your Minecraft server

Step 2:

Enter the command /op or /deop

The opposite of the op command is the deop command. You can also use the deop command to remove OP permission from a player, should you need to.

Enter the deop command to remove op permission from a player

Once you are opped, you will be able to run administrative commands and actions on your server.

Kobe Plane

Game Experience Engineer