Playing Minecraft can be a huge blast, but what if we told you that playing the game with cheats is even more fun? Sure, you can add quite a bit of entertainment to your Minecraft experience with player mods and add-ons, but using not-so-secret console commands to enhance or alter the world of Minecraft can be just as thrilling. And whether you’re playing the game on a desktop PC, PlayStation, or Xbox, you’ll have access to these cool codes.
So how do you go about altering your next Minecraft session with a couple of clever cheats? We’ve got the step-by-step instructions you’ll need for both console and PC versions of the popular title.
If you’re running the Java Edition of Minecraft, enabling cheats is very simple. Start by creating a new world and make sure that the Allow Cheats option is set to On. Create your world and open the chat menu by hitting /. In this box, you can now begin entering any console commands to activate the cheat of your choice.
RelatedIf you want to use cheats in an existing world, you can do so by going into the menu and selecting Open to LAN. From there you can toggle the Allow Cheats option.
On the Bedrock Edition, the process is slightly different. Create or load into a world and open the menu. Go to the Cheats tab and toggle them On. Now, just like in Java, you can open the chat menu and input / to start entering commands. If you’re playing with a controller, you will need to hit right on the D-pad and then select your cheat from a list of options or type using the digital keyboard.
There are a ton of console commands, so here’s a comprehensive list of each one you can use and a description of what they do.