Hytale Server Admin Commands

Make yourself operator (first thing)

You need to be an operator to use almost every command. Join the server with your character and, from the server console (on NapNodes, the panel's “Console”), type “op add” and your player name: it accepts the name of someone online or their UUID. Once you have permissions, “/op add” and “/op remove” give and take operator from other players.

To let a friend do only some things, without handing over full control, see Hytale server groups and permissions.

1. /op add <player>

   Adds a player to the operators group.

2. /op remove <player>

   Removes their operator status.

3. /help

   Lists the commands; “/help <command>” shows the help for a specific one.

Who gets in: whitelist, kick and ban

1. /whitelist enable and /whitelist disable

   Turns the whitelist on or off: while it's on, only the players on it can join. Since Update 6, the whitelist is a permission, hytale.server.join.

2. /whitelist add <player> and /whitelist remove <player>

   Adds or removes a player from the whitelist. “/whitelist list” shows the list and “/whitelist status” whether it's on.

3. /kick <player>

   Kicks a player off the server (they can join again).

4. /ban <player> and /unban <player>

   Bans or unbans a player, by name or UUID.

5. /who

   Lists who's online.

6. /maxplayers <number>

   Changes the maximum number of players at once.

The game

1. /gamemode <mode> [player]

   Changes the game mode: adventure or creative (or their short forms, a and c).

2. /time set and /time get

   Sets or checks the world time.

3. /weather set and /weather reset

   Forces a weather in the world or sets it back to normal.

4. /tp

   Teleports a player to a position; “/spawn” takes you to the spawn point and “/spawn set” changes it.

5. /give <item> [amount]

   Gives an item to a player.

6. /heal and /kill

   Restores health and stamina, or kills a player and makes them respawn.

7. /say <message>

   Broadcasts a message to the whole server.

The server

1. /backup

   Takes a backup of the world (the “universe”) at that moment. With the official launcher, the server also makes automatic backups every 30 minutes, in the backups folder. How to go back to one is in the Hytale backups guide.

2. /world save

   Saves the worlds to disk.

3. /stop

   Saves and shuts down the server.

4. /update check and /update status

   Checks whether there's a new server version and how far along the update is. How it gets applied is in the Hytale updates guide.

Frequently asked questions