Command builder

Minecraft Difficulty Command Generator

Choose peaceful, easy, normal or hard and copy the difficulty command for your world. The World section also includes game mode, time, weather and daylight-cycle settings.

Minecraft Command Studio

Build messages, player admin, world and item commands from one workspace. Java tellraw supports hover text and click URLs. Bedrock uses colored rawtext messages.

Command categories: Messages, Player admin, World command and Items.

EditionCategoryTarget selector

World command

In-game command

/difficulty hard

Console command

difficulty hard

Command bundle export

# Command bundle export
/title @a title {"text":"Welcome","color":"gold"}
/tellraw @a {"text":"Read /rules before building.","color":"aqua"}
/time set day
/difficulty hard

Slash is needed in-game. Console command output removes the leading slash. Commands require the appropriate server permissions.

Use case

Why use this tool

Each utility supports a practical task around finding, preparing or presenting a public Minecraft server.

Create difficulty, gamemode, gamerule, time and weather commands in the world section.
Switch between slash commands and console commands.
Choose world settings without typing command syntax by hand.

Good to know

Difficulty commands FAQ

Concise answers for players and server owners using this ServerBuddy utility.

What is the Minecraft difficulty command?

Use /difficulty followed by peaceful, easy, normal or hard. On a server console, you can usually run the same command without the slash.

Does server.properties also need to change?

If you want the setting to survive restarts, set difficulty in server.properties too. The live command changes the running world immediately.

Is hard the same as hardcore?

No. Hard is a difficulty setting. Hardcore is a separate world mode with permanent death rules.