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Becoming an admin (operator) on your Minecraft server

On Minecraft, an admin is called an operator (op). You can make a player an operator on the Players tab of the dashboard, with a console command, or in game if you're already an operator.

Make a player an operator on the Players tab​

  1. Open the Fragnet dashboard, go to My servers and select your server.
  2. Select the Players tab. If you don't see it in the tab row, look under More.
  3. In the Add a player card, type the player's Minecraft name in the Minecraft name field. Names are 3 to 16 letters, digits or underscores.
  4. Select Make op. You see a confirmation that the player is now an operator.

Players who have already joined are listed under All players. Select Make op next to their name instead of typing it. Operators have an Operator tag.

To take operator rights away, select De-op next to the player.

Minecraft server, Players tab

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  • If the server is running, the change applies right away. If it's stopped, it's saved to ops.json and applies the next time the server starts.
  • While the server is stopped, you can only add players who have joined the server before. Otherwise you see "That player hasn't joined this server yet. Start the server and try again."

Use a command​

You can also use the Console card on the Overview tab (see Send a command). The server must be running. Run:

op yourUsername

To remove operator rights, run:

deop yourUsername

Operators can run the same commands in game, with a / in front: /op yourUsername and /deop yourUsername.

Permission level​

Each operator has a permission level from 1 to 4:

1 - Player can bypass spawn protection.

2 - Player can use commands such as /summon, /teleport, /tp, /xp, /setblock, /locate, /kill, /give and player can use command blocks.

3 - Player can use commands related to multiplayer management such as /ban, /deop, /kick, /op, /whitelist.

4 - Player can use all commands.

Set the level for new operators​

New operators get the level set in Operator permission level in server.properties. The default is 4.

  1. Select the Configuration tab and then server.properties in the list on the left.
  2. In the Players group, change Operator permission level.
  3. Select Save and restart, or Save to apply it at the next start. See Change a setting.

Change the level of one operator​

  1. Stop the server, so it doesn't overwrite the file while you edit it.

  2. Select the Files tab and open ops.json in the main folder (see Edit a file). It looks like this:

    [
      {
        "uuid": "1232378-342772-23432-82472-34237794724",
        "name": "yourUsername",
        "level": 4,
        "bypassesPlayerLimit": false
      }
    ]

  3. Change the level of the player to a value from 1 to 4.

  4. Select Save file, then start the server.