Commands/clear

clear
Permission level required	2 ‌ 1 ‌
Restrictions	Cheat only‌

Clears items from player inventory, including items being dragged by the player. Can also detects and queries the amount of specified items.

Syntax

• Java Edition

clear [<targets>] [<item>] [<maxCount>]

• Bedrock Edition

clear [player: target] [itemName: Item] [data: int] [maxCount: int]

Arguments

JE: <targets>: entity
BE: player: target: CommandSelector<Player>

Specifies the player(s) whose items are cleared. If not specified, defaults to the player who executes the command.

Must be a player name, a target selector or a UUID‌. And the target selector must‌/should‌ be of player type.

JE: <item>: item_predicate
BE: itemName: Item: enum

Specifies the item to be cleared. If not specified, all items are cleared.

In Java Edition, it must be in the format of item_id{data_tags}(accepts item or block tags), in which data tags can be omitted when they are not needed. In Bedrock Edition, it must be an item id or a block id for which items exist.

data: int: int

Specifies the data value of the item to be cleared. If not specified, or if -1, all items that match itemName: Item are cleared, regardless of their data. Values (bitwise AND 0xFFFF) that are invalid for the specified item id revert to 0.

Must be a 32-bit integer number. Should be between -1 and 2,147,483,647 (inclusive, without commas).

JE: <maxCount>: integer
BE: maxCount: int: int

Specifies the maximum number of items to be cleared. If not specified, or if -1‌, all items that match item, or itemName: Item and data: int are cleared. If 0, instead of clearing of items, detects and queries the amount of specified items.

Must be a 32-bit integer number. In Java Edition, it must be between 0 and 2147483647 (inclusive). In Bedrock Edition, it should be between -1 and 2147483647 (inclusive).

Result

Command	Trigger	Java Edition	Bedrock Edition
any	the arguments are not specified correctly	Unparseable	Unparseable
	<targets> or player: target is not specified when the command's executor is not a player.	Failed	Failed
	player: target is not in player type	N/A
	<targets> or player: target fails to resolve to one or more online players	Failed
	there are no specified items in any player's inventory.
	If data: int is lower than -1.	N/A
	If maxCount: int is lower than -1.
	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 total items that are cleared or detected.
	Bedrock Edition	On fail	0	N/A	N/A
		On success	the number of players who have the specified items.	N/A	N/A

Note

Items in the inventory and items from container (chest, crafting table, etc.) dragging over the cursor can be cleared.

In Bedrock Edition, items dragging from the inventory can also be cleared, while in Java Edition only if not in creative mode can these be cleared.

In Java Edition, items in players' four crafting slots can also be cleared.

Examples

• To clear your entire inventory: clear
• To clear all items from Alice's inventory: clear Alice
• To clear all wool items from Alice's inventory: clear Alice minecraft:wool
• To clear all orange wool items from the inventory of all players: clear @a minecraft:wool 1‌ or clear @a minecraft:orange_wool‌
• To clear all golden swords with the "Sharpness I" enchantment from the nearest player
  • clear @p minecraft:golden_sword{Enchantments:[{id:"minecraft:sharpness",lvl:1s}]}‌
• To test if a random player has stone in their inventory: clear @r minecraft:stone -1 0‌ or clear @r minecraft:stone 0‌

See also

• /data — can change or remove items in block or entity inventories
• /give — give items to player
• /kill — can destroy item entities
• /item‌ — can manipulate items in block or entity inventories
• /replaceitem‌ — can replace items in block or entity inventories

History

Java Edition
1.4.2		12w37a			Added /clear.
		12w38a			Added item argument to /clear.
1.8		14w02a			Added data argument to /clear.
1.9		15w31b			/clear now clears the offhand slot.
1.13		17w45a			The syntax of /clear has changed from /clear [<target>] [<item>] [<data>] [<count>] [<nbt>] to /clear [<target>] [<item>] [<count>].
1.16		20w07a			/clear now clears the items in the inventory crafting grid.
		20w22a			/clear now works properly with the inventory crafting grid.
Pocket Edition
1.0.5		alpha 1.0.5.0			Added /clear.

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