/kill

/kill

Permission level required	2 ‌ 1 ‌
Restrictions	Cheat only‌

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Kills entities (players, mobs, items, etc.).

Usage

Directly kills living targets (which deals 2¹²⁸ (~3.4×10³⁸) damage), even if they are protected by a high-level Resistance effect or by a totem of undying, and issues the appropriate death message. Players and mobs killed this way drop loot, and slimes and magma cubes that are not of minimum size spawn smaller ones. Destroys boats, minecarts, loose items, paintings, armor stands, and experience orbs if they are targeted.

In Bedrock Edition, players in Creative mode cannot be killed.

Syntax

• Java Edition

kill [<targets>]

• Bedrock Edition

kill [target: target]

Arguments

JE: <targets>: entity
BE: target: target: CommandSelector<Actor>

Specifies the target(s) to kill. If not specified, defaults to the player who executed the command.

Must be a player name, a target selector or a UUID‌.

Result

Command	Trigger	Java Edition	Bedrock Edition
Any	Any argument is not specified correctly.	Unparseable	Unparseable
	<targets> or target: target is not specified when the command's executor is not an entity.	Failed	Failed
	<targets> or target: target fails to resolve to one or more entities (named players must be online).
	All the targets are creative-mode players.	Successful
	Otherwise	Successful

Output

Command	Edition	Situation	Success Count	/execute store success ...	/execute store result ...
Any	Java Edition	On fail	0	0	0
		On success	1	1	the number of targeted entities
	Bedrock Edition	On fail	0	N/A	N/A
		On success	the number of entities that are killed	N/A	N/A

Examples

• To kill the player executing the command: kill @s
• To kill the player Steve: kill Steve
• To kill item entities: kill @e[type=item]
• To kill all entities except players: kill @e[type=!player]
• To kill all creepers within 10 blocks:
  • JE: kill @e[distance=..10,type=creeper]
    
  • BE: kill @e[r=10,type=creeper]
• To kill all arrows that are stuck in a target: kill @e[type=arrow,nbt={inBlockState:{Name:"minecraft:target"}}]‌

History

[hide]Java Edition Alpha
v1.2.6							Added /kill. It currently deals 1000HP × 500 damage.
[hide]Java Edition
1.3.1			12w16a				/kill is now usable in singleplayer.
							Parsing of the command is now more strict, rejecting extra characters after the command name (such as /killme or /killed). However, arguments are still ignored, meaning /kill playername still only kills the executor.
							/kill now uses void damage instead of generic damage, bypassing armor. The death message is now "player fell out of the world" instead of "player died".
							/kill now prints the message "Ouch! That looked like it hurt" on execution.
1.6.1			13w24b				/kill now deals 2128 (~3.4×1038) damage.
1.8			14w02a				Added (player|entity) argument to /kill.
							Replaced the "Ouch! That looked like it hurt" message with "Killed player".
			14w02c				To fix MC-44371, /kill now directly kills non-living targets.
1.13			17w45a				<target> argument is no longer optional.
1.15			19w38a				<target> argument is once again optional.
1.20			Pre-release 1				/kill now uses generic_kill type damage instead of void damage.
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.16.0			build 1				Added /kill.