How to enable cheats on a Minecraft Bedrock server

Cheats enabled on a Minecraft Bedrock server

By default, cheats are disabled on Minecraft Bedrock servers. With cheats enabled, you can use commands to give yourself items, spawn mobs, change the time of day, and more. This guide will show you how to enable cheats on your Minecraft Bedrock server in a few simple steps.

Enabling cheats

  1. Start your server
  2. Open the Console screen
  3. Enter op YourIngameName to give yourself operator permissions
  4. Pause your server
  5. Open your server's files
  6. Edit the gameserver/server.properties file
  7. Change the line starting with allow-cheats to allow-cheats=true
  8. Save the file
  9. Restart your server

Example config file

Here is an example of how your server.properties file could look like after the change:

server-name=Dedicated Server
gamemode=survival
difficulty=easy
allow-cheats=true
max-players=10
online-mode=true
white-list=false
server-port=19132
server-portv6=19133
view-distance=32
tick-distance=4
player-idle-timeout=30
max-threads=8
level-name=Bedrock level
level-seed=
default-player-permission-level=member
texturepack-required=false
content-log-file-enabled=false
compression-threshold=1
server-authoritative-movement=server-auth
player-movement-score-threshold=20
player-movement-distance-threshold=0.3
player-movement-duration-threshold-in-ms=500
correct-player-movement=false