Vintage Story Commands (1.22.7): All 40 Server Commands

Vintage Story Commands (1.22.7): All 40 Server Commands

Verified against Vintage Story 1.22.7 on 17 September 2026.

Vintage Story has two command prefixes. A leading / is a server command: it runs on the server, changes the world or other players, and is privilege checked. A leading . is a client command and stays on your machine. The admin half needs a role holding the privilege, and the fast route is /op [playername] from the console, which the game describes as Give a player admin status. Shorthand for /player [playername] role admin. Jump to the full list.

The commands people look up first

Teleport: /tp

Stored: Teleport a player or entity to a location. The shape is /tp [source] [destination]; the source is optional, so leaving it out moves you. The binary ships two examples:

The destination is a location: a player, or an entity picked by a selector, where p[] means players, e[...] entities and * is a wildcard. Success prints Ok, teleported, failure No matching target location found. Run /help tp for the coordinate form.

Note there is no tp privilege in 1.22.7, so do not grant one by that name. /waypoint tpwp [name] teleports you to a waypoint by name prefix.

Give items and blocks

Items and blocks are separate registries, so a block code will not resolve through /giveitem. Both need the give privilege. Failure prints Failed, target players inventory is likely full or cant accept this item for other reasons, usually a full hotbar. /debug itemcodes and /debug blockcodes dump every loaded code to the server log.

Game mode and creative mode

/gamemode [mode] is stored as Set (or discover) the player(s) game mode, and the discover half matters: run it bare and it reports where you are. For somebody else, /player [playername] gamemode [mode]. Both need the gamemode privilege. Creative also gates the editing actions below, which refuse with Only available in creative mode. Constantly asked for: /player [playername] allowcharselonce (acso), Allow changing character class and skin one more time, which lets that player run .charsel once.

Is there a god mode command?

No. There is no /god among the 40 commands in 1.22.7 and no god privilege. People mean creative mode via /gamemode; the flight half is freemove, grantable without give.

Time: /time

The set argument is stored as 24 hour format or word, and there are eleven words:

So /time set day, /time set sunrise and /time set 14 all work. Note the wording: fast forward. It runs the world forward, not back, and time drives processes: a jump to midnight advances crops, spoilage and the temporal cycle. Needs the time privilege.

The full server command list

All registered in 1.22.7. Most descriptions are the game's own stored strings; the rest are one line summaries, and rows with no stored string say so.

Players, bans and roles

The whitelist has an expiry that almost nobody knows about. A whitelisted player is confirmed with Player is now whitelisted until followed by a date, and an entry that runs out produces a different refusal from never having been listed at all: Your whitelist entry has expired rather than You are not on the whitelist. If a regular suddenly cannot get in on a server nobody has touched, read which of those two messages they got before you start looking for a cause. The list itself lives in playerswhitelisted.json in the player data directory, and the server config key behind the on and off subcommands is WhitelistMode, described in the binary as whether to only allow whitelisted players to join your server.

This is the player whitelist. Vintage Story also has a separate mod whitelist and blacklist under /serverconfig, which decides which mods are allowed to load rather than which people are allowed to join. The two are unrelated and get confused constantly. Installing and controlling server mods covers that pair.

Ban duration uses a shared argument type whose help reads is a number and time, for example 1 day, units minute hour day week year; omit it and the ban is permanent. The server refuses with Can't kick or ban a player with a superior or equal group level, so peers cannot act on each other. See detecting grief.

World, time and weather

Read /weather stoprain twice before using it on a populated server: it stops rain by moving the clock forward to a point where there is none, a time jump wearing a weather hat. /weather setprecipa is the safe undo. For the keys worth changing see the worldconfig reference; several need a restart. /nexttempstorm pairs with temporal mechanics.

Server control and information

/serverconfig simrange is the most useful row here when a server struggles, precisely because the value is not saved: drop it live, watch tick time, restart to undo. Pair it with /chunk queue, then large population setup and the chunk lag fix. /chunk resend and /chunk relight cure a missing patch of world without a restart.

Mods, macros and save maintenance

/macro is the most underused command in the game: a macro is a named custom command with its own required privilege, built with addcmd, desc and priv. One safe macro beats promoting a moderator to admin. /bir rescues a world after a mod is removed, mapping an orphaned block code onto a live one; it will not overwrite a mapping unless you repeat it with force. See save corruption and installing mods.

On backups the game draws its own line, verbatim: (/db backup and /db vacuum sub-commands are not available for hosted servers, sorry). The related actions are vacuum (Repack save game to minimize its file size), backuppartial (chunk_x_start, chunk_z_start, chunk_x_end, chunk_z_end) and prune, which deletes all unchanged or hardly changed chunks whose changes fall below a threshold you set, with a keep or drop choice for chunks that carry a land claim, plus a dryrun and a confirm flag. Read that twice before running it: it removes terrain. On a managed host, use the panel: save management.

Land claims and groups

Player groups are the other half of this section, and they are a separate system from roles. A role is server wide and carries privileges. A group is a named set of players with its own chat room and its own owner, and a group operator is not a server admin.

The op and deop here are group operators, not server admins. Older guides list a bare /deop as the way to strip someone's admin rights. There is no such command in 1.22.7. Group operator only grants the ability to kick and invite inside that one group; to change what somebody can do on the server you move them to a different role with /player [name] role [rolename]. Two more things worth knowing before you use these in anger: disbanding takes two steps, because the first call answers Disband already requested, type /group confirmdisband [groupname] to confirm, and addplayer and removeplayer exist specifically so an admin can fix a group they do not own.

Claim ids are per player and sequential, hence Incorrect claimid, you only have {n} claims. The export pair is the quiet hero of grief recovery: export writes the claim to a json file on the server and download sends it to the player, so you can capture a build before undoing damage around it.

Entities, world generation and debug

countg, count and find diagnose an entity related slowdown without guessing: grouped summary, filtered count, then positions. Treat wipeall and the regen pair as destructive, tamed animals and player builds included. Developer only actions sit in the same block: expclang, blu, dumpanimstate, dumprecipes, testcond.

Creative mode selection and editing

The 15 privileges

There is no single admin switch: there are fifteen named privileges and a role is a bundle of them. Spelling matters, since a typo fails silently in a role definition and plausible names like tp and god do not exist.

/list privileges prints the same list from your own server, mods included. A refusal reads Insufficient privilege to use this command, and /help [commandname] tells you which one it wanted. The privilege each command demands is not stored beside its registration, so none is claimed above.

Roles and groups

Privileges are handed out through roles, and a role is assigned with /player [playername] role [rolename]. That is the whole permission model; /op is only a shortcut into the admin role. Start from /list roles, which prints what your server has. Roles live in the server configuration, and typos come back as No such role found.

Avoid a two tier world of player or full admin. A moderator role with commandplayer, areamodify and freemove but not give or root handles grief without minting diamonds.

/group manages player groups: the ones /announce broadcasts to, and the ones manageplayergroups and controlplayergroups govern. Run /help group for your build's subcommands.

/help is the authority on your build

Mods add and rename commands, so the last word belongs to your own server:

/help bare lists every command you may see; with a name it prints the usage line, the examples and the required privilege. Client side, .chb opens the searchable command handbook the official wiki itself points people at.

What this page does not guess

An assembly stores each identical string once, so a few tokens are not recoverable:

• hardban exists (Ban a player forever without reason), but whether it sits under /ban or stands alone is not.
• /serverconfig gets and sets the server name and description.
• /moddb uninstalls a mod and lists installed mods.
• A self inspection group reports your stats, privileges, role and game mode, and empties your inventory.

Everything else came out of the assemblies verbatim. For the historical list, the official Vintage Story server commands wiki page is still the reference, outdated tag and all.

Frequently asked

How do you become admin in Vintage Story?

Run /op [playername] from the server console: the game calls it shorthand for /player [playername] role admin. To revoke it, put the player back in a normal role.

What is the teleport command in Vintage Story?

/tp, stored as Teleport a player or entity to a location, in the form /tp [source] [destination] with an optional source. /tp Luke Hayden sends Luke to Hayden; /tp p[] e[type=wolf*] sends everyone to the nearest wolf. There is no tp privilege.

How do you give items in Vintage Story?

/giveitem [item code] [quantity] [target] for items and /giveblock [block code] [quantity] [target] for blocks, both needing the give privilege. /debug itemcodes dumps every loaded code to the server log.

How do you change the time in Vintage Story?

/time set [value], where value is a 24 hour number or one of eleven words: lunch, day, night, latenight, morning, latemorning, sunrise, sunset, afternoon, midnight, witchinghour. It fast forwards, so crops and spoilage advance with it. /time stop freezes the clock.

How do you turn on creative mode in Vintage Story?

/gamemode [mode] for yourself, /player [playername] gamemode [mode] for someone else. Stored as Set (or discover) the player(s) game mode, so running it bare reports the current one.

Is there a god mode command in Vintage Story?

No. There is no god command among the 40 server commands in 1.22.7 and no god privilege. Creative mode via /gamemode is what people mean; the flight part is the freemove privilege.

What is the difference between slash and dot commands?

Commands starting with / run on the server and are privilege checked. Commands starting with . are client side, such as .chb for the command handbook.

Commands are only as good as the box underneath them. Host your Vintage Story server with Supercraft and run all of the above from a web console, with automatic backups and one click rollback.