How to use the Minecraft Tag command in Minecraft! Minecraft /tag command tutorial Java

Hey everybody, it’s UnderMyCap, and welcome back to another video. Today I’m going to show you how to use the /tag command.

The tag command is an extremely simple but very useful command. In this post, I’ll go through all the ways you can use it and explain the different parts of the command.

Why Tags Are Useful

Tags are great when you need to identify a specific mob (or player) among many others. For example, if you have a group of mobs and you only want commands to affect certain ones, tags let you target only those specific entities.

In my case, I have a few sheep. If I tag one sheep, I can then run commands—like teleporting—on only that tagged sheep.

The Three Parts of the /tag Command

The /tag command has three main options, similar to many other Minecraft commands:

Add — adds a tag
List — shows the tags an entity has
Remove — removes a tag

Adding a Tag

To tag a player (for example, yourself), you can run:

/tag UnderMyCap add test

After running that, the tag is added to that player.

Listing Tags

To see what tags a player currently has, use:

/tag UnderMyCap list

This lists all tags on that player.

Removing a Tag

To remove a tag, run the same command but replace add with remove:

/tag UnderMyCap remove test

Important: Tags Are Case-Sensitive

Tags are case-sensitive. That means Test and test are treated as different tags. If you use capital letters when creating a tag, you must use the exact same capitalization later when targeting or removing it. To avoid mistakes, I usually keep all tags lowercase.

Giving Yourself a Spawn Egg That Spawns Tagged Mobs

If you want to tag a lot of mobs quickly, you don’t need to tag each one individually. Instead, you can give yourself a spawn egg that automatically spawns mobs with a tag already applied.

This uses the /give command with an extra NBT section. For example, to give yourself a sheep spawn egg that spawns sheep with a tag, you would do something like this:

/give @s sheep_spawn_egg{EntityTag:{Tags:["test1"]}}

When you run that command, you’ll receive a spawn egg that contains NBT data (you’ll see it mentioned on the item). Any sheep spawned from that egg will automatically have the tag you specified.

Targeting Only Tagged Mobs

Once you spawn a bunch of sheep using the tagged egg (and maybe some normal sheep too), you can run a command that targets only the tagged ones.

For example, you can teleport only the tagged sheep to yourself. When you teleport entities using a selector that includes the tag, only the mobs with that tag will be affected, and the others will stay where they are.

Tagging a Single Mob Quickly (Without Finding Its ID Manually)

If you want to tag a specific mob quickly, you can do it using the mob’s UUID that Minecraft inserts for you.

Here’s how:

Point your crosshair at the mob, open the chat/command input, and type:

/tag

Then press space. You’ll see a long set of letters and numbers appear—this is the mob’s unique ID. With that selected, you can add a tag like this:

/tag <mob_uuid> add tag1

Now that mob has the tag, and you can target it with other commands using that tag.

Wrapping Up

That’s the basics of the /tag command: adding, listing, and removing tags, using spawn eggs to create pre-tagged mobs, and quickly tagging single entities using their UUID.

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