How to Use the Allowlist on a Minecraft Bedrock Server

Bedrock calls its whitelist the allowlist. When it's on, only players on the list can join.

Turn it on

1. Open your server and go to Files.
2. Click server.properties to open it in the Minecraft Server Properties editor.
3. Use Search for property name... to find the setting.
4. Turn on allow-list.
5. Save and restart the server from Console.

Add players

Run this in Console, with the player's exact Xbox gamertag. Use quotes if it has spaces:

allowlist add "Steve Gamer"

Other commands:

allowlist remove "Steve Gamer"
allowlist list
allowlist reload

See and remove players in the panel

Open Players in the sidebar. The Allowlist column lists everyone on it, with a Remove button for each.

Things to know

• Gamertags must match exactly, including spaces and capitals.
• The list is saved in allowlist.json. If you edit that file by hand, run allowlist reload.
• Operators aren't let in automatically; add them to the allowlist too.