How to give items with a command

The give command drops any item straight into a player's inventory.

The command

give PlayerName item amount

From the Console there is no leading slash. In game, as an operator, put a / in front.

give Steve diamond 64              a full stack of diamonds
give Alex netherite_pickaxe 1      one netherite pickaxe
give @a cooked_beef 16             16 steak to everyone online
give @p oak_log 8                  8 logs to the nearest player

Item ids

Use the item's id, which is its in-game name in lower case with underscores: oak_planks, golden_apple, iron_ingot, redstone_torch.

Two things worth knowing:

• Tab completion works in the Console. Start typing an item and press Tab rather than guessing at spelling.
• The minecraft: prefix is optional. diamond and minecraft:diamond both work. Items from a mod always need their own prefix, like create:cogwheel.

Amounts

The amount is optional and defaults to 1. You can ask for more than a stack, for example give Steve diamond 200, and it arrives as several stacks.

If a player's inventory is full the leftover items are dropped on the ground at their feet, not lost. They still have to pick them up before they despawn.

Enchanted and custom items

On 1.20.5 and newer, extra data goes in square brackets after the item:

give Steve diamond_sword[enchantments={sharpness:5}] 1

Older versions use a different format entirely, with {} instead. If a command is rejected with a syntax error, that mismatch is nearly always why: check which version your server is on.