# Administrator Control Panel
Manage your Minecraft Bedrock world with one in-game administration system. Assign staff ranks, choose what each rank can access, manage players, configure world settings, and use building and moderation tools from ACP menus.
**New in v3.1.1:** Admins can open the panel with `/acp:admin` without carrying an item. Owners can also create ticking areas, and staff can save their own personal waypoints.
**Requires Minecraft Bedrock 1.26.50 or later.** The Behavior Pack and matching Resource Pack are both required.
## What ACP Offers
- Custom staff ranks with individual permissions
- Player management, including teleporting to coordinates
- Personal gamemode controls
- Private staff waypoints
- Owner-managed ticking areas
- Protected Areas with PvP and explosion controls
- Structure tools, Floating Displays, Chunk Visual, and Distance Ruler
- World settings and administrative utilities
- Translated ACP text in English (US), German, Spanish (Mexico), Simplified Chinese, and Thai
- Stable Script APIs; no experimental Beta APIs required
## Staff Ranks and Permissions
Create ranks with names that fit your community, such as Moderator, Builder, Helper, or Event Staff. Set permissions for each rank so staff only see the ACP options they are allowed to use.
Permissions cover tools such as player management, teleportation, gamemode changes, world settings, utilities, spectator access, inventory inspection, and Personal Staff Waypoints. Owners retain access to owner-level controls.
## Player Management
Manage online players and saved player records through paginated, alphabetized lists. Available actions depend on your rank and may include:
- Change a player’s gamemode
- Teleport to a player or bring a player to you
- Teleport a player to entered X, Y, Z coordinates
- Randomly teleport a player
- Kick a player or apply levitation
- Assign or remove ACP admin access
- View player inventories and Ender Chests
Ender Chest viewing and editing use separate permissions. Owners can allow staff to inspect contents without allowing them to change items.
## Personal Gamemode and Admin Access
Staff with the Personal Gamemode permission can change their own gamemode without receiving permission to change everyone else’s.
Open ACP with `/acp:admin` if you have ACP admin access. You can also open it using the Admin Rod or an item renamed to **Admin Settings**. The owner can configure an admin’s preferred tool, including the option to use no item.
## Personal Staff Waypoints
Owners and authorized staff can save private locations for their own use. Each admin can save up to 24 named waypoints, with five displayed per page.
Waypoints include the coordinates, dimension, and facing direction. Admins can teleport to, rename, delete, or update a waypoint to their current location. Updating a saved location requires confirmation.
Owners always have access. Staff access is controlled by the **Personal Staff Waypoints** rank permission.
## Ticking Areas
Owners can create, edit, and delete ACP-managed ticking areas from the Ticking Areas menu. New areas use the owner’s current location and dimension as the center, with a radius of up to four chunks.
While the server is running, saved ticking areas keep their chunks loaded and ticking even when no players are online. Crops and command blocks can continue working; natural mob spawning still requires a player within simulation distance. The menu shows area coordinates and lets owners edit or delete areas from anywhere.
ACP-managed areas are listed separately from areas created with the `/tickingarea` command.
## Protected Areas and PvP
Create named areas with their own PvP and Explosion Protection settings. Use them to protect a spawn or town, or create a PvP arena while keeping combat disabled elsewhere.
Global PvP can be disabled while selected areas allow combat. Protected Areas do not force players into Adventure Mode; players can build, break blocks, and use items unless another setting prevents it.
When enabled, Explosion Protection cancels explosions originating inside an area. This setting is independent of the area’s PvP setting.
## Building and World Utilities
**Structures:** Select an area, save it, preview and place structures, rotate selections, and undo the last placement. Entity saving and placement can be configured where supported.
**Floating Displays:** Create and manage floating text and live scoreboard displays. Options include multiple lines, colors, scoreboard sorting, and ranking numbers.
**Chunk Visual:** See the boundaries of the chunk you are standing in, with north, east, south, and west references.
**Distance Ruler:** Measure between selected points while building. Measurements are kept separate for each player, and the owner can give the ruler to a non-admin builder.
Other available tools include Run Command, Fill Commands, Clear Floating Items, and spectator tools, depending on rank permissions.
## World Settings
Use ACP menus to manage supported settings such as world spawn, time, weather, difficulty, Keep Inventory, Mob Griefing, tick speed, command feedback, and maximum players. Some actions include confirmation screens to help prevent accidental changes.
Owners can also configure Lock Time and Lock Clear Weather.
## Language Files
ACP includes translations for English (United States), German, Spanish (Mexico), Simplified Chinese, and Thai. Some Floating Display text may require selecting a language in ACP.
## Installation
1. Back up your world before installing.
2. Import the Administrator Control Panel addon.
3. Activate the Behavior Pack and its matching Resource Pack in your world settings.
4. Make sure both packs are the same version.
5. Enter the world and complete the initial owner setup.
6. Create staff ranks and configure permissions as needed.
Both packs are required.
## Updating ACP
1. Back up the world.
2. Remove the previous ACP Behavior Pack and Resource Pack from the world.
3. Import the updated packs.
4. Activate the matching Behavior Pack and Resource Pack.
5. Enter the world and check that ACP settings are available.
ACP’s saved administrator information, ranks, player history, and configuration are designed to survive normal addon updates. Avoid changing ACP’s saved dynamic-property identifiers.
## Supported Worlds
ACP is intended for Minecraft Bedrock Edition worlds, including single-player, multiplayer, Realms, and Bedrock Dedicated Servers. Available features can vary by Minecraft version and environment.
## Script API and Achievements
ACP v3.1.1 requires `@minecraft/server` 2.10.0 and `@minecraft/server-ui` 2.2.0, and requires Minecraft Bedrock 1.26.50 or later. It does not require experimental Beta APIs.
ACP does not automatically disable achievements. Minecraft controls achievement eligibility, and some administrative actions may affect it. Back up your world and check achievement availability after major Minecraft updates
The v3.1.1 changelog is available in the CurseForge **Files** section.
