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title: How to Kick and Ban Players on Your Minecraft Server
description: "Learn how to kick or ban players from your Minecraft Server! "
source: "https://nodecraft.com/support/games/minecraft/general/how-to-kick-and-ban-players-on-your-minecraft-server"
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updated: "2025-12-09T17:36:48.757Z"
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# How to Kick and Ban Players on Your Minecraft Server

Learn how to kick or ban players from your Minecraft Server! 

This guide will walk you through the process of kicking and/or banning players on your Minecraft server.

## How to kick a player

1. Open your [Dashboard.](https://app.nodecraft.com/dashboard)
2. Navigate to the control panel for your Minecraft server.

  ![Nodecraft dashboard showing Minecraft server panel with pixel-art cave banner, "Server offline" status and 0 players connected.](https://cms-a.nodecraft.com/f/133932/2466x634/ddb8ca2ec9/63.png/m/1000x0/smart)
3. Once on your panel click on **Console**.

  ![Nodecraft Minecraft server panel showing 'Server online' (uptime 6M 49S), control buttons and sidebar with 'Console' highlighted.](https://cms-a.nodecraft.com/f/133932/327x625/43bed52d9a/64.png/m/)
4. Once on the console you will see an input box at the bottom that says, “**Type a command**”.

  ![Dark terminal showing server logs with timestamps, green-highlighted 'Done (1.523s)!' and a prompt 'Type a command...'](https://cms-a.nodecraft.com/f/133932/734x193/f2453b5a76/65.png/m/)
5. In the box type “kick <player>” without the quotes and the real players name in place of <player>

  **Note: This would look like the example: kick notch**

You have now kicked a player using your console. Alternatively, you can also use OP permissions in your server to kick in-game. To do so you would open your text chat and type “/kick <player>” without the quotes, just as if you did in the console only adding a / at the beginning.

## How to ban a player

1. As before, navigate to the **Console** area of your Minecraft server's dashboard.
2. Once on the console you will see an input box at the bottom that says, “**Type a command**”.
3. In the box type “ban <player>” without the quotes and the real players name in place of <player>.

  **Note: An example is: *****ban notch***

  **Note: You can also ban the IP of the player is using by doing “ban-ip <player>”**

You have now banned a player using your console. You can also use OP permissions in your server to ban/ban-ip in-game. To do so you would open your text chat and type “/ban <player>” without the quotes, just as if you did in the console only adding a / at the beginning.