Setup an Allowlist on your Minecraft Bedrock Server

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This article is for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition

For Minecraft: Java Edition servers, follow the instructions in this guide.

Since Minecraft doesn't have a password system, setting up a whitelist is a simple and effective way to limit your Minecraft server to players who you trust. It’ll prevent unauthorized users from connecting to your server and potentially damaging your world. For Bedrock servers, this is currently the only way to ban players from a server.

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Reload the Allowlist

When making changes to the whitelist, it's a good idea to reload it afterwards by using /allowlist reload

Turn on Allowlist

1. Login to Command Center.
2. Navigate to the Files tab and locate the server.properties file.
3. Click on server.properties to open the file and change allow-list from false to true.
4. Save and restart the server for it to take effect.

Adding Players to your Allowlist

1. In your Command Center console, type in allowlist add <player>.
2. Test to make sure it added the player by typing in allowlist list.

Removing players from your Allowlist

1. In your Command Center console, type in allowlist remove <player>.
2. Test to make sure it removed the player by typing in allowlist list.

Turn Off Allowlist

1. Login to Command Center.
2. Navigate to the Files tab and locate the server.properties file.
3. Click on server.properties to open the file and change allow-list from true to false.
4. Save and restart the server for it to take effect.