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Game rules allow you to change the gameplay of your Minecraft server to suit your desires. This could range from turning PvP off all the way to modifying the amount of people who must be sleeping for the night to pass.

Please be aware you must be a server operator in order to use game rule commands.
(To set yourself as an operator follow this guide: How to OP a player)

The syntax is, /gamerule <rule> [<value>] where <rule> is the name of the game rule and <value> is an allowed value, which depends on the type of the game rule. The types are boolean (where the allowed values are either true or false) and integer (where any whole number can be entered).

Game rules can be changed either in-game via the game chat, or via your server's Web Console.

Changing game rules via the Web Console:

Find the gamerule you want to change from the table below.
Open your server's Web Console.
Type in the command, in this example we are turning fall damage off so the command we are using is /gamerule fallDamage false
The Web Console will respond to the command as seen in the image below:

Changing game rules via the in-game chat:

Find the gamerule you want to change from the table below.
Log into your server.
Type in the command, in this example we will be making it so player's respawn instantly without showing the death screen using the doImmediateRespawn command.
The game will respond to the command as seen in the image below:

Table of Game Rules


Rule name	Description	Default value	Type	Availability
Rule name	Description	Default value	Type	Java	Bedrock
`announceAdvancements`	Whether advancements should be announced in chat	`true`	Bool	Yes	No
`commandBlocksEnabled`	Whether command blocks should be enabled in-game	`true`	Bool	No	Yes
`commandBlockOutput`	Whether command blocks should notify admins when they perform commands	`true`	Bool	Yes	Yes
`disableElytraMovementCheck`	Whether the server should skip checking player speed when the player is wearing elytra. Often helps with jittering due to lag in multiplayer.	`false`	Bool	Yes	No
`disableRaids`	Whether raids are disabled.	`false`	Bool	Yes	No
`doDaylightCycle`	Whether the daylight cycle and moon phases progress	`true`	Bool	Yes	Yes
`doEntityDrops`	Whether entities that are not mobs should have drops	`true`	Bool	Yes	Yes
`doFireTick`	Whether fire should spread and naturally extinguish	`true`	Bool	Yes	Yes
`doInsomnia`	Whether phantoms can spawn in the nighttime	`true`	Bool	Yes	Yes
`doImmediateRespawn`	Players respawn immediately without showing the death screen	`false`	Bool	Yes	Yes
`doLimitedCrafting`	Whether players should be able to craft only those recipes that they've unlocked first	`false`	Bool	Yes	No
`doMobLoot`	Whether mobs should drop items	`true`	Bool	Yes	Yes
`doMobSpawning`	Whether mobs should naturally spawn. Does not affect monster spawners.	`true`	Bool	Yes	Yes
`doPatrolSpawning`	Whether patrols can spawn	`true`	Bool	Yes	No
`doTileDrops`	Whether blocks should have drops	`true`	Bool	Yes	Yes
`doTraderSpawning`	Whether wandering traders can spawn	`true`	Bool	Yes	No
`doWeatherCycle`	Whether the weather can change naturally. The `/weather` command can still change weather.	`true`	Bool	Yes	Yes
`drowningDamage`	Whether the player should take damage when drowning	`true`	Bool	Yes	Yes
`fallDamage`	Whether the player should take fall damage	`true`	Bool	Yes	Yes
`fireDamage`	Whether the player should take damage in fire, lava, campfires, or on magma blocks‌^{[Java Edition only]}^[1].	`true`	Bool	Yes	Yes
`forgiveDeadPlayers`	Makes angered neutral mobs stop being angry when the targeted player dies nearby	`true`	Bool	Yes	No
`freezeDamage` ‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.17 & BE 1.17]}	Whether the player should take damage when inside powder snow	`true`	Bool	Yes	Yes
`functionCommandLimit`	The maximum number of commands that can be executed by `/function` at once	`10000`	Int	No	Yes
`keepInventory`	Whether the player should keep items and experience in their inventory after death	`false`	Bool	Yes	Yes
`logAdminCommands`	Whether to log admin commands to server log	`true`	Bool	Yes	No
`maxCommandChainLength`	The maximum length of a chain of commands that can be executed during one tick. Applies to command blocks and functions.	`65536`	Int	Yes	Yes
`maxEntityCramming`	The maximum number of pushable entities a mob or player can push, before taking 3 suffocation damage per half-second. Setting to 0 or lower disables the rule. Damage affects survival-mode or adventure-mode players, and all mobs but bats. Pushable entities include non-spectator-mode players, any mob except bats, as well as boats and minecarts.	`24`	Int	Yes	No
`mobGriefing`	Whether creepers, zombies, endermen, ghasts, withers, ender dragons, rabbits, sheep, villagers, silverfish, snow golems, and end crystals should be able to change blocks and whether mobs can pick up items, which also disables bartering. This also affects the capability of zombie-like creatures like zombie pigmen and drowned to pathfind to turtle eggs.	`true`	Bool	Yes	Yes
`naturalRegeneration`	Whether the player can regenerate health naturally if their hunger is full enough (doesn't affect external healing, such as golden apples, the Regeneration effect, etc.)	`true`	Bool	Yes	Yes
`playersSleepingPercentage` ‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.17]}	What percentage of players must sleep to skip the night.	`100`	Int	Yes	No
`pvp`	Whether the player can fight with other players	`true`	Bool	No	Yes
`randomTickSpeed`	How often a random block tick occurs (such as plant growth, leaf decay, etc.) per chunk section per game tick. 0 and negative values disables random ticks, higher numbers increase random ticks. Setting to a high integer results in high speeds of decay and growth. Numbers over 4096 make plant growth or leaf decay instantaneous.	`3`‌^{[JE only]} `1`‌^{[BE only]}	Int	Yes	Yes
`reducedDebugInfo`	Whether the debug screen shows all or reduced information; and whether the effects of `F3` + `B` (entity hitboxes) and `F3` + `G` (chunk boundaries) are shown.	`false`	Bool	Yes	No
`sendCommandFeedback`	Whether the feedback from commands executed by a player should show up in chat. Also affects the default behavior of whether command blocks store their output text	`true`	Bool	Yes	Yes
`showCoordinates`	Whether the player's coordinates are displayed	`true`	Bool	No	Yes
`showDeathMessages`	Whether death messages are put into chat when a player dies. Also affects whether a message is sent to the pet's owner when the pet dies.	`true`	Bool	Yes	Yes
`spawnRadius`	The number of blocks outward from the world spawn coordinates that a player spawns in when first joining a server or when dying without a personal spawnpoint.	`10`‌^{[JE only]} `5`‌^{[BE only]}	Int	Yes	Yes
`spectatorsGenerateChunks`	Whether players in spectator mode can generate chunks	`true`	Bool	Yes	No
`tntExplodes`	Whether TNT explodes after activation	`true`	Bool	No	Yes
`universalAnger`	Makes angered neutral mobs attack any nearby player, not just the player that angered them. Works best if `forgiveDeadPlayers` is disabled.	`false`	Bool	Yes	No
`showTags`	Hides the "Can place on" and "Can destroy" block lists from item lore.	`true`	Bool	No	Yes

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