This Minecraft tutorial explains how to enable command blocks on a Minecraft server with screenshots and step-by-step instructions.

By default when you start a new Minecraft server, command blocks will be disabled even for players with operator status.

This means that players can not program or run command blocks on the multiplayer server. You can enable command blocks by changing a setting in the server.properties file.

Let's explore how to allow command blocks on a Minecraft server.

Allowing command blocks on a server is available in the following versions of Minecraft:

* The version that it was added or removed, if applicable. NOTE: Pocket Edition (PE), Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and Windows 10 Edition are now called Bedrock Edition. We will continue to show them individually for version history.

You have to first create a multiplayer server in Minecraft and have privileges to update the server.properties file.

The server.properties file contains all of the customizable settings for a multiplayer Minecraft server.

Here is what the server.properties file looks like:

Each property is stored on its own line in the server.properties file and contains the custom settings for the Minecraft server. The value before the equal sign is the property name and the value after the equal sign is the setting for the property.

In this example, the enable-command-block property is set to false so players can not program or run command blocks on the server. To enable command blocks, you must change the enable-command-block property to true in the server.properties file:

Let's go through the steps to enable command blocks on a Minecraft server.

Before you edit the server.properties file, you should first shutdown the server. If you don't shutdown the server, any settings you change may be overwritten when the server shutdowns next.

To shutdown the server, type the /stop command:

To enter the /stop command in Minecraft, you must enter it as a server command (see below):

You should see the message "Stopping the server" appear in the server console. Once the command has been entered, the server will stop and all server data will be saved to disk.

Now that you have shutdown the server, you can edit the server.properties file without any worries that your changes will be overwritten. To enable command blocks, change the enable-command-block property in the server.properties file to true:

Finally, restart the Minecraft server so that the changes to the server.properties file can take affect. Once the server is running again, players (who have operator status) will be able to program and run command blocks.

Congratulations, you just learned how to enable command blocks on a Minecraft server!

Here are some other server commands you can use in Minecraft: