/teleport command in Minecraft

Turn on cheats

/teleport needs cheats, or operator rights on a server. In singleplayer:

• New world: in Create New World, open the Game tab and set Allow Cheats to ON.
• Existing world: press Esc, click World Options..., set Allow Cheats to ON, then click Apply Changes. Since 26.3 this button sits where "Open to LAN" used to be.
• Server: the owner has to make you an operator (op YourName in the server console).

Hardcore worlds cannot turn cheats on. Open the chat with T or / and type the command. Without permission, the game answers "Unknown or incomplete command".

Choose who moves and where

Instead of a player name, you can use a target selector: @s yourself, @p the nearest player, @a all players, @r a random player, @e all entities (mobs, items, players) and @n the nearest entity. Filters go in square brackets, for example @e[type=minecraft:wolf,distance=..20] for every wolf within 20 blocks.

The first target is who moves, the second is where they go. The destination must be a single entity, so add limit=1 when you use @e there, or use @n or @p. A rotation or facing only works when you name the target first, for example /tp @s 0 64 0 facing 0 64 10.

Absolute, relative and local coordinates

Absolute coordinates such as 100 64 -200 point to an exact place; Y is the height, and F3 shows your own position. With ~, values are relative to the current position along the world axes: X grows to the east and Z to the south, so ~100 ~ ~ moves you 100 blocks east. With ^, they follow the view direction, in the order left, up, forward: ^ ^ ^5 moves five blocks forward. You cannot mix ~ and ^ in one position. Whole X and Z values land in the middle of the block.

The rotation is yaw then pitch: yaw 0 faces south, 90 west, 180 north and -90 east; pitch -90 looks straight up and 90 straight down. To turn on the spot, keep ~ ~ ~ and change only the rotation.

Other dimensions

Coordinates always refer to the current dimension. To change dimension, run the command through /execute: /execute in minecraft:the_nether run tp @s 0 80 0. Use minecraft:the_end for the End and minecraft:overworld to come back. Teleporting to an entity, such as another player, also takes you to its dimension.

The game does not convert coordinates. One block in the Nether equals 8 blocks in the Overworld on X and Z, while Y stays the same: divide by 8 on the way in, multiply by 8 on the way back. The converter below does the math.

Interactive tool

Coordinate tools

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1 block in the Nether = 8 blocks in the Overworld. Y does not change.

Nether ↔ Overworld

Overworld	Nether
X 0 · Z 0	X 0 · Z 0
X 800 · Z 800	X 100 · Z 100
X 8,000 · Z 8,000	X 1,000 · Z 1,000
X -2,400 · Z -2,400	X -300 · Z -300

Land safely

/teleport does not check where you land. You can end up inside stone, in mid-air or in lava.

• Overworld: blocks exist from Y -64 to Y 319, sea level is Y 63.
• Nether: the lava sea fills everything up to Y 31. Above Y 127 you stand on top of the bedrock ceiling.
• Unknown spot: switch to Spectator with /gamemode spectator, teleport, look around, then switch back on solid ground.
• In Survival: run /effect give @s minecraft:slow_falling 30, teleport high (for example Y 200) and glide down.

Unloaded or never-visited chunks are no problem: the game generates the destination before you arrive, which can take a second.

Common errors

To scatter players randomly, use /spreadplayers; to set where they respawn, /spawnpoint. In Survival, an Ender Pearl or a Chorus Fruit teleports you without any command.

✓ Checked in Java Edition 26.3 · updated 2 November 2026