Minecraft Administration

Minecraft administration can be done in many forms and the three most basic ways to do this is by setting up OP / Admin users, maintaining a whitelist, and maintaining a blacklist.

Setting up OP / Admin Users

An OP (Operator) account allows full access to commands within Minecraft, such as adding/removing people from the whitelist, changing the weather, time of day, etc. (For a list of commands, see the Minecraft Wiki's commands page). To setup yourself as an OP, you will need FTP access to the server (or the File Manager in your server's TOOLS row) as well as the UUID (Universally Unique IDentifier) for your account.

• Or use the ACCESS tab in Quarry (your server's TOOLS row) to make players operators and add them to the allow list (whitelist) by name.
• Information on FTP access can be found on the FTP Access page.
  
  

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1. Stop your server.
   
2. Retrieve the UUID for your account. Go to this page UUID Finder. Type in the account name for your Minecraft account and you will see a page similar to the image below.
   
   

   

3. Copy the value for the Full UUID and place it in a notepad on your computer. We will use this later when editing the files for your server.
   
   
4. You will need to open the following file in your FTP folder:
   • ops.json - The file contains information on which accounts are granted OP / Admin access.
5. In the ops.json file you will need add your UUID, name, permission level, and if you can join despite the number of players on the server. Using Notch's info, it will look like this.
   

   

6. Adding multiple admins will look like this.
   

   

7. Once you are done making changes, save the file, and start the server up.

Bedrock OP

1. Make sure your server is running.
   
2. Head in game and log into the server.
3. Grab your username that is used in game.
   
4. Open Quarry in the TOOLS row on your server's page and click the CONSOLE tab
5. Type op @p[name="Player Name Here"] (replace Player Name Here with your in game Username).
   
6. Hit enter and you are now OP on bedrock.

To manually set your OP status. Use the guide below.

1. Log into your FTP client

2. Edit or create the permissions.json file.

3. Add the following code, with the player's xuid in place of the x's (the xuid is their Xbox account number; it shows on their player card in Quarry's Who is playing list while they are on the server)

[
  {
    "permission": "operator",
    "xuid": "2535xxxxxxxxxxxx"
  }
]

4. Save the file and re upload

5. Restart your server.

Whitelisting

To prevent unauthorized users from joining your server, a "white list" will need to be created.

1. Once you are connected to your server via FTP, you will need to locate two files.

• server.properties - Main configuration file for your server
• whitelist.json - This file contains information on who is or isn't allowed on the server.

2. In the server.properties file, you will need to change the value of white-list from false to true.

In the whitelist.json file, you will need to add your UUID and account name. Using Notch's info, it will look like this.

[
  {
    "uuid": "069a79f4-44e9-4726-a5be-fca90e38aaf5",
    "name": "Notch"
  }
]

Managing Whitelists and Blacklists in Game

Once you have operator permissions and are on the whitelist, you are now able to add/remove players from the whitelist with ease.
Adding Notch:

Removing Notch:

Unless you add players to your whitelist, they will be unable to join and will receive a message indicating they are not on the whitelist.

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How to OP your character

1. You will want to first get a working rcon tool for minecraft
   1. More info related to this topic on the McRcon page
2. Once you are logged into your Rcon tool type the following into it
   1. op Username (with username being the name your character uses in game)
   2. Example: op SurvivalServers
3. Once you run this command in the rcon window it will then spit back text stating your player is now OP'd
4. Log in game and test out some admin commands

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