DATA SAFETY
Backup manager
Keep full archives alongside space-efficient changed Overworld and Nether region archives.
Automatic Overworld + Nether region backups
Only changed world/region/*.mca and world/DIM-1/region/*.mca files are added. End, playerdata and custom dimensions are excluded.
Archives
Full archives restore as a complete offline backup. Incremental region archives offer selected-region rollback below.
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SERVER CONTROL
Your vanilla server, at a glance.
Control the process, run backups and watch the console in real time.
Checking
Quick actions
Graceful process controls and online-safe backup.
Live console
Latest server output. Commands are audited.
HISTORY
Log viewer
Open previous vanilla log files and search them without leaving the panel.
INVESTIGATION
Coordinate-box search
Start with a broad box search across every saved snapshot, then narrow the evidence by player, time, dimension or inventory.
Enter two corners to beginThe first result is deliberately broad: every recorded visit in that box.
AUTOMATION
Chat commands
Build player commands with guided fields. No JSON or regular expressions required.
COMMAND
New command
Variables
Players type these after the command. Add as many named values as needed and choose what each accepts.
What the command does
Add responses, server commands, styled Tellraw messages, or a backup.
MESSAGE DESIGN
Tellraw word editor
Type normally, select words, then style them or attach Minecraft interactions.
Select text in the editor before applying a format.
Text
Insert live value
Selected text settings
Select one or more words above, fill only the settings you want, then apply.
IN-GAME PREVIEW
Generated output
Use the raw component, full command, chat-command action, or script line.
EXTENSIONS
Automation scripts
Create ordered Minecraft command automations and bind them to server events.
Event bindings
Bind scripts to joins, leaves, chat, startup, crash detection or process exit. Each command: output line runs as a Minecraft console command in order. Add optional conditions such as message_contains=diamond, player_regex=^Steve or raw_contains=OutOfMemory; separate conditions with semicolons.
SERVER FILES
File manager
Manage world datapacks and selected root configuration files without exposing VanOS private data.
Select an editable text file.
Safety boundary: the manager exposes datapack folders under each world plus server.properties, whitelist, ops, bans and EULA. Panel databases, keys, player data and world region files stay hidden. Restart or run /reload when a datapack requires it.
PLAYER SAFETY
Chat behaviour
Monitor language, excessive caps and chat rate with a configurable escalation ladder.
Detection
Choose sensitivity and the signals VanOS should enforce.
Escalation ladder
Count offences inside the rolling window, then apply the highest matching action.
Recent behaviour
Seven-day totals by player and signal.
WORLD SAFETY
Grief protection
Manage claims that put intruders in adventure while owners and added players keep survival.
Protection details
Expand within the server maximum, review added players, disable, or remove a claim.
Select a protection.
Player allowances
Players with the griefprotection in-game tag can create up to this many areas.
COMMUNITY
Builder bypass
Let trusted builders keep survival inside any Overworld claim. Spawn still requires adventure unless staff put them in creative.
Builder bypass allowlist
Listed players keep survival inside any Overworld claim. Spawn still forces survival players to adventure; use creative to build there. Creative and spectator are always left untouched.
COMMUNITY
Notices
Messages shown below the welcome when a player joins.
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Notice editor
The main message is visible on join. Extra detail appears on hover.
INVESTIGATION
Player Intelligence
One staff view of a player's history, reports, protections and persistent intelligence notes.
Search for a player to build their intelligence profile.
INVESTIGATIONS
Reports
Player and grief reports with the same ownership, commentary and resolution workflow in-game and in the panel.
ACCOUNTABILITY
Mod Log
One audit trail for moderation across Minecraft, the panel, chat monitoring and protection administration.
Moderation actions
Newest first. Actors are preserved as Minecraft players, panel users or VanOS.
| Time | System | Who | Target | Action | Reason / details | Notes |
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PLAYER ACTIONS
Moderation
Enter a player name and run only the actions your permission groups allow.
ACCESS CONTROL
Users & permission groups
Create panel logins and grant feature/action permissions through reusable groups.
User
Permission groups
Permission group
Feature & action permissions
CONFIGURATION
Settings
Manage server, backup, tracker and Votifier settings without editing files.
Runtime & Votifier
Saved to the private environment file. A Compose recreate applies these values.
Secret fields stay blank and are never read back. Enter a new value only to rotate one.
Live settings
Tracker, worlds, chat prefix, crash recovery, planned restarts and vote rewards load immediately.
!seeinv <player>Private inventory lookup from the latest NBT snapshot. Requires the command.seeinv permission in the sender's panel group.
Minecraft server properties
Manage vanilla server.properties. Restart Minecraft after saving.
Votifier public key
Copy this to services using the legacy Votifier protocol.