mcipm(1) General Commands Manual mcipm(1)

mcipm - Minecraft Interprocess Management

mcipm [<global-options>] entitystat <selector-option> [<selector-option> ...] [<other-options>]
mcipm [<global-options>] kill <world> <entity-id> [<entity-id> ...]
mcipm [<global-options>] version

This tool perform management tasks on a running Minecraft server instance that has mcipm mod installed.

The versions between the mcipm mod and this tool must be match, or the behavior is unpredictable.

-S, --socket-path <path>
Specify the path of an Unix domain socket that the server is listening on. Default is mcipm (thus in current working directory).
--version
Display version, copyright and licensing information of this tool. The program will exit afterward.

entitystat <selector-option> [<selector-option> ...] [<other-options>]

Display various data structures about entities in a Minecraft server, selected by one or more selector options. At least one selector option must be specified; if more than one selector options are specified, entities will be selected by matching at least one of specified selector.

Selector options:

-A, --all
Select all entities in all worlds.
-W, --world <world-id-name>
Select all entities in specified world.
-i, --entity-id <entity-id>
Select entity by a numeric ID.
-t, --entity-type <entity-type>
Select specified <entity-type> of entities.

Other options:

-o, --format <colum>[=<title>|,<colum>[...]]
Display entities information according to the colums specified here. If this option being specified multiple times, later specified colums are appended to already specified colums.

Available colum names are:

world id type name location rotation state width height chunk uuid ticks maxhealth health phealth idletime attacktarget growingage itemage itempickupdelay owner thrower itemdamage itemlifespan itemcount

The default colums set is world,id,location,type,name.

--sort [+|-]<colum>[,[+|-]<colum>[...]]
Sort the output lines based on specified colums; + or - character specifies the sorting direction of given colum, default is +. The colum names are same as what describes for -o or --format option.
-w
By default if the last colum is name and stdout is a terminal, the entity name may get truncated to fit terminal window width; specify this option to disable truncation of entity names.

kill <world> <entity-id> [<entity-id> ...]

Kill one or more entities by <entity-id> in <world>. The specified entities will be killed in a way that similar to the in-game command kill.

version

Query version information of the Minecraft server, this may include MCIPM mod version, Minecraft Forge version and Minecraft version.

List all chickens with their entity ID, world, location and growing age:


mcipm entitystat -t minecraft:chicken -o id,world,location,growingage

List all entities in overworld:


mcipm entitystat -W overworld -o id,type,name

This man page describes version 1.0 of the mcipm tool.

It may wait for the server reply forever if the Minecraft server side failed to reply after request; in this case, press ^C to interrupt this program.

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