Command Commentary

I'm not 100% finished but I've looked through source/game and tested almost all the commands that exist. I've grouped them together and added commentary that might (or might not) help you better understand what commands would be useful to you. If you find an inaccuracy in any of this (typos, missing commands, wrong information), please create an issue on the GitHub and I'll do my best to correct it!

NOTE

If you see this and happen to be a Hytale Developer (or know one), I've compiled a list of bugs at the bottom of this page relating to commands.

Aside: Macros

I have yet to put aside the time to figure out exactly what macros exist/whether or not I have mixed some into this list, but at the very least I know they exist as I use /noon regularly (set time to noon and toggles time cycle).

Utility

Command	Commentary
/tp	Teleport a player to a location or other player.
/gamemode	Switching a player's gamemode.
/sudo	Execute a command as another player.
/help	UI command manual.
/stop	Shuts down the server.
/auth	Manages authentication for the server.
/warp	A way to set manage locations to teleport to.
/say	Broadcasts message to server.
/toggleblockplacementoverride	Enable or disable block plavement override.
/plugin	Command for managing plugins.

Server Administration

Command	Commentary
/kick	Kick the specified player.
/ban	Ban the specified player (by UUID).
/unban	Unban the specified player.
/whitelist	Manage whitelist.
/op	Manage server operators.
/maxplayers	Sets the maximum allows players (modifies )
/give	Give an item to a player.
/player	Manage other players (stats, effects, camera, etc.).
/inventory	Manage player inventories.
/memories	Manage player memories.
/kill	Kill the specified player.

World Management

Command	Commentary
/block	Everything for managing blocks.
/chunk	Everything for managing chunks.
/world	Everything for managing worlds.
/entity	Everyting for managing entities.
/npc	Everything for managing NPCs.
/spawning	Related to the spawning of NPCs.
/worldmap	Everything for managing the world map.
/instances	Everything for managing instances.
/time	Sets the time for a world.
/spawn	Teleport or set the world spawn.
/weather	Manage the weather.

Info

Command	Commentary
/whereami	Get current location of a player.
/whoami	Get basic info about a player.
/who	Get your name and displayname (ONLY WORKS ON YOU).
/version	Get the current server version.
/ping	Get the ping for a player.
/server	Get performance information about the server.
/commands	Dumps all commands into file on server .
/packs	Lists all loaded asset packs.
/packetstats	Gets statistics about a given packet.

Singleplayer

Command	Commentary
/play	Single player only command for toggling multiplayer modes.
/landiscovery	Toggles lan discovery.
/hub	Used in the singleplayer "Creative" type world (server) to go back to the hub world (game world).

Building

WARNING

I haven't finished going over this category of commands yet, so the commentary is incomplete and the commands could be miscategorized.

Command	Commentary
/tint	Tints the selection a certain color (pass a hex value like #000000)
/submerge	Replaces air/fluids in selection with another fluid
/scriptedbrushes	No idea
/repairfillers	No idea
/replace	Replace a block with another
/setblocks	Set all blocks in selection
/redo	Redo
/fillblocks	Fill air with blocks
/pos1	Set selection position 1
/pos2	Set selection position 2
/stack	Stack selection in looking or otherwise specified direction
/move	Moves the selection unlike worldedit
/settoolhistorysize
/copy	Copy selection to clipboard
/shift	Moves the selection. Not an easy command to use
/selectchunk	Changes selection to be the current chunk
/selectchunksection	Changes selection to be the current chunk section
/cut	Cut selection to clipboard
/flip	Flips clipboard
/paste	Pastes clipboard
/wall	Creates walls with selection. Can also generate floor/roof
/hotbar	Saves up to 10 hotbars and allows you to switch between them
/rotate	Rotates clipboard
/expand	Same as contract but expanding
/contractselection	Downsizes selection in the direction(s) you are looking. IT SAYS ALL DIRECTIONS THAT ISN'T TRUE. Negative values still shrink selection but from the other side.
/clearblocks	Effective alias of /set 0
/extendface	No idea
/hollow	Sets inside
/deselect	Clears selection
/editline	Might be bugged says it needs 7 arguments
/clearedithistory	Clear clipboard history
/importobj
/updateselection
/environment
/prefab
/gmask
/clearentities	Clears entities in selection
/undo
/importimage
/selectionhistory

Test Behaviors

Command	Commentary
/hitdetection	Toggle on hitboxes for hit detection for attacks.
/eventtitle	Debug command to send a title to all players.
/notify	Send a notification to all players.
/mount	Dismount or check mount status.
/cursethis	Curses or un-curses the item in your hand. Cursed items are removed from the player if they die in a fragment (possibly also when they leave a fragment but this kicks me atm).
/camshake	Apply effects to the camera.
/refer	Initiates a server transfer.
/damage	Deals damage to a player.
/sound	Plays a sound to the player/opens play sound UI.
/model	Set/reset a player's model/open change player model UI.
/particle	Opens particle spawning UI.
/network	Simlated network latency.
/hide	Hide/show players from everyone or specifically another player.
/droplist	Simulate drops from droplists assets.
/debug	Mostly useless dev tool that draws debug shapes at the players location, but /debug shape showforce seems like a useful tool to show applied velocities.
/networkchunksending	Toggle on/off whether you should receive chunks from the server.
/objective	Mostly seems like a dev tool for managing player objectives.
/itemstate	Takes the players currently held item and applys the argument as the item's state.
/fragment	Adjusts the fragment timer for a fragment world.
/leave	Leaves the fragment world. It seems like there are currently some issues leaving the fragment world so this command sometimes disconnects the player (same as leaving through the portal though).
/fluid	Can be used to spawn a lot of fluid.
/recipe	Mange recipies a player knows.
/setticking	Toggle on or off world ticking.
/spawnitem	Spawns in an item to the world.

Mostly Useless

Command	Commentary
/prefabspawner	Dev command for getting and setting data for prefab spawner blocks which can already be done via interacting.
/perm	Simple permissions management command, although I would strongly recommend using LuckPerms instead.
/blockspawner	Unlike prefab spawners, block spawners don't appear to have a ui yet, but I can't get them to do anything for that matter.
/convertprefabs	Helps in updating prefabs. Presumably useful but the game just came out so not sure.

Development Tools (Probably Useless)

Command	Commentary
/log	Set log levels of loggers.
/wait	Wait a specified amount of time. Doesn't seem to do anything else, probably a dev tool.
/sleep	Test consecutive short sleep calls, or adjusts TickingThread.SLEEP_OFFSET (not sure what this does). Probably a dev tool.
/emote	Plays an animation? Right now I can barely get it to work on any assets and it plays the emote for such a short duration I assume the command is a dev tool.
/validatecpb	Literally crashed my client, command name and description sound like a dev tool.
/messagetest	Dev tool that tests something about translation params (internal way of handling messages with params in different languages).
/hudtest	Dev tool that toggles the hotbar visibility.
/pidcheck	Dev tool that checks if a process with a given id is running. The singleplayer flag when passed literally just makes the command tell you singleplayer isn't supported, which itself has a typo that says it "only works in singleplayer". 💀
/echo	Echos the input text.
/bindings	Print IO server manager bindings.
/tagpattern	Tests a block type against a tag pattern.
/interaction	Run interactions like attack, use, abilities, etc. Some of them error out "no root interaction".
/buildertoolslegend	Same thing as toggle builder tools legend keybind.
/debugplayerposition	Prints pos, rot, head rot, and some tp information; spawns a "blue debug thingy" at your position.
/editprefab	It's hard to be 100% sure but this command seems buggy as hell and really just a less functional /prefab.
/hitbox	When given a hitbox id, returns information about the hitbox.
/desyncdamage	Togggles DamageSystems.FilterUnkillable.CAUSE_DESYNC which just makes players not take damage.
/assets	Asset debugging tool.
/blockselect	Loads clipboard with every block in the game.

Probable Bugs

Command	Commentary
/lighting	For getting and changing the lighting system. The sub command to change the lighting /lighting calcuation mistakenly sets the lighting calculation to what it already is and not the value passed in by the user.
/voidevent	Immediately triggers the void event in the given fragment world. Also mistakenly sets the portal world's timer to 1 second (likely thinking or at one point this timer started the void event but this one timer is responsible both for starting the event at 180s and kicking the player out at 0s) which causes the player to immediately get booted out of the world.
/stresstest	Seems like a possibly helpful stress server stress testing command but currently there's an issue with the bots joining the server (happens on my local and multiplayer).
/viewport	Command almost certainly seems bugged. Running the command appears to just regenerate chunks. Reading the source the delete flag does nothing. Probably a dev tool.
/blockset	Lists all block sets without args, errors for a lot of the blocksets that you can put in.
/spawnblock	Spawns a block entity at the specified location. DO NOT USE IF YOU MISSPELL THE BLOCK IT WILL CRASH THE WORLD.

Other Small Bugs

• /tp forward has unfilled placeholder values.
• /maxplayers has unfilled placeholder values.

Untested/Difficulty Testing

Command	Commentary
/hitboxcollision	The help appears to indicate this allows you to attach a HitboxCollisionConfig asset to an entity.
/ambience	Manage ambient sound and music. I've always either been in a call or blasting music and have not gotten around to see if this actually does anything.
/path	Control npc pathing. Did not test
/update	Updating assets and prefabs via git.
/backup	Creates a backup of the world if the backup directory is set.
/stash	Can't get it to say anything but "No droplist for container." when hovering over container.
/checkpoint	Related to parkour checkpoints, no idea how to interact with them.
/worldpath	Looks to be an ordered series of waypoints in the world. Not sure what it is used for though.
/reputation	Might just be a small isolated plugin that basically just keeps track of arbitrary points that do nothing? I can't figure out if they do something/how to actually get the commands to work.
/repulsion	No idea what a repulsion component does.
/worldgen	Benchmarking command and worldgen config reload command. Maybe the worldgen reload might be needed when working on custom world generation?