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Chat & moderation

Chat & players

Command Effect
list who's online (great over RCON)
say Server restarting soon broadcast to all
msg Alice dinner time private message
kick Alice afk too long reason is optional

Formatted broadcast with tellraw:

tellraw @a {"text":"Hello","color":"gold","bold":true}

Useful tellraw colors: gold, red, green, aqua, yellow, light_purple, or any "#RRGGBB" hex.

Moderation

Command Effect
op Alice / deop Alice grant / revoke operator
whitelist add Alice also: remove, list, reload
whitelist on enforce the whitelist
ban Alice griefing pardon Alice to undo
ban-ip 1.2.3.4 pardon-ip to undo
banlist show bans

Whitelist over bans

For a friends-only server, whitelist on + whitelist add for each player beats reactive banning — nobody unknown ever joins.