Talk:Operator

Op meaning
An Op, which stands for Over Powered,

Haha. ...No?

Op stands for over powered rather than operator because when given Op powers it says is chat "You are now OP!". If it stood for Operator, it would have said "You are now an OP!", but since there was no an it means it as the adjective Over Powered rather than the noun Operator.

Or you could just pay attention to the fact that notch is swedish and therefore his english isn't perfect. --{ Fishrock123 } ( Talk ) 03:10, 31 May 2011 (UTC)


 * The ops.json file lists the default banning "reason" as: "Banned by an operator."
 * SOLVED - it means operator... So what exactly is the topic of this discussion? It starts out as being a rant about OP meaning over-powered...
 * That's how I took it. Realize that some people do get to these pages via google, etc...  Sorry if you see it as some sort of intrusion...
 * Cursethesilliness (talk) 21:43, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Changes with 1.7.7
I'm not terribly well-versed in coding, but I'll do my best to describe a problem I just ran into with creating an ops list in a server I just set up for a few friends. It seems that ops.txt is now no longer a .txt but a JSON file (although I have no idea what that actually is...), and it was looking for an array instead of a string; so I couldn't just write my username into the file to op myself and leave it at that. When I used a command to op myself via the server UI instead, it created an array in the ops file with a user id number, my name, and also the numerical value that represents how much power ops have in the server settings file. (I'm assuming this is the rationale behind no longer having a separate admins file, as you can now just change how much power each op has within the file.)

I assume this is due to 1.7.7 putting the framework in place to allow players to change their account names, so the id number is necessary for ops lists (as well as whitelists, banned lists, and so forth, which are also no longer .txt files).

I don't really know much about wiki editing but I figured I ought to note this so somebody more experienced than I can explain it within the article itself, and possibly in the server setup tutorials as well. TwyllBlackleaf (talk) 23:43, 9 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Interesting; this makes it harder to manually add operators - you need a way to look up the player's UUID. If they've logged in to the server recently, you can grab it from usercache.json, but it's probably easier to just use the server console. -- Orthotopetalk 00:36, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Merge proposal
I have made a merge proposal at Talk:Administrator to merge this page that that one into Server. – KnightMiner  t/c 02:46, 31 March 2015 (UTC)