How to Unop Someone in Minecraft [easy guide]

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Playing Minecraft alone can be incredibly fun, but it gets even better with friends. 

So you decide to set up a server so you and your friends can all play together. 

In this article, you can see how to give someone else, or yourself, OP permissions as a server owner. And – maybe even more importantly – you can see how to remove permissions again from OP players. 

You can also see what each level of the operator status allows the players to do. Dig in for everything you need about OPing and Unoping someone in Minecraft!

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OP Permission Meaning

If you’re new to multiplayer servers in Minecraft, here’s just a quick explanation.

As a server operator, you have complete control. 

But if you want other players to have a little more wiggle room to change things on the server, you need to assign them an Operator Permission level, depending on how much you trust them.

Giving regular players OP status is like making them server admins. Depending on their assigned level, they can use a variety of game commands.

In Minecraft Java Edition, players can bypass spawn protection at level one. 

They can use a command block and several console commands at level two. 

At level three, they can use the command prompt for multiplayer management.

And at level four, they can use server management commands.

The principle is the same for Bedrock Edition, although the permission levels vary slightly.

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How to Unop Someone

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When you want to unop someone in Minecraft, the deop command is the way to go.
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After giving someone OP permissions in Minecraft, there may be multiple reasons why you no longer want them to have those abilities. In that case, the deop command is your best friend.

Follow the steps below to Unop someone in Minecraft. 

  1. Open your text box by pressing TAB or “T.”
  2. Type “/deop <player’s name>” (without quotation marks and brackets.) 
  3. A message should pop up saying, “Player is no longer an operator.”

Note you have to be a Level 3 OP on the server to run this command. Otherwise, Minecraft will give you an error.

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How To OP Another Person or Yourself

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When you want to give operator permission to someone in Minecraft, use the OP command.
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If you have never OPed yourself before or want to know how to give another player those permissions, use the following commands: 

  1. Open the chat window by pressing TAB or “T.”
  2. Type “/op <player name>” (without quotation marks and brackets). 
  3. A message should pop up saying, “Player is now an operator.” 

Again, you must be a Level 3 OP to give another player OP permissions in Minecraft. Otherwise, Minecraft will give you an error. 

Different Operator Permission levels

In Minecraft version 1.7.10, Minecraft introduced several OP permission levels, splitting up the commands of what different levels can use. 

OP LevelCommands
Level 1Level 1 OPs can bypass spawn protection but have no other commands available.
Level 2/clear
/clone
/difficulty
/effect
/enchant
/execute
/fill
/function
/gamemode
/gamerule
/give
/kill
/locate
/particle
/playsound
/replaceitem
/say
/schedule
/scoreboard
/setblock
/setworldspawn
/spawnpoint
/spreadplayers
/stopsound
/summon
/tag
/teleport
/tellraw
/testfor
/testforblock
/testforblocks
/time
/title
/tp
/weather
/xp
/reload
/advancement
/attribute
/bossbar
/data
/datapack
/defaultgamemode
/experience
/forceload
/item
/locatebiome
/loot
/recipe
/spectate
/team
/worldborder
Level 3/kick
/deop
/op
/whitelist
/ban
/ban-ip
/banlist
/debug
/pardon
/pardon-ip
/setidletimeout
Level 4/stop
/publish
/save-all
/save-off
/save-on
/classroommode

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How to Set the OP Level

Setting the OP level on a Minecraft server can seem complicated, but once you know how, it’ll be easy. Follow the below steps to set the OP level for someone on your server.

  1. Open your server’s control panel, and locate the Stop button.
  2. Press that to shut down your server while you set the OP permission levels. 
  3. Locate your server’s “Configuration Files.”
  4. Open “server.properties” in a text editor. 
  5. Find “OP permission level.”
  6. Set the level you want the OP permission level to be.
  7. Restart your server. 

There you go! You have now set the server OP level and commands the operators on your server can use. 

Conclusion

Unoping someone can sometimes be necessary when they abuse their power or simply no longer want those permissions. If you found this article helpful, check out everything you need to know about the Dragon Egg in Minecraft! Until next time, happy gaming!


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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Jan has played video games since the early 1980s. He loves getting immersed in video games as a way to take his mind off stuff when the outside world gets too scary. A lifelong gamer, the big interest led to a job as a lecturer on game sound at the University of Copenhagen and several written articles on video games for magazines.

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