Minecraft Title Command Tutorial: How To Use All Title Commands In Minecraft Java

Hey everybody, it’s UnderMyCap and welcome back to another video! Today I’m going to be showing you how to use the /title command in Minecraft Java. Without further ado, let’s get straight into it!

If you’d prefer to watch the video version of this tutorial, you can check it out here: Minecraft Title Command Tutorial – UnderMyCap

Getting Started: Command Blocks vs. Command Console

Before we get started, I just want to mention that the title command can be executed both in the command console and in command blocks. Throughout this tutorial I demonstrate it through command blocks simply because it is a much easier way to explain things, but you are more than welcome to use either method and it works just as well either way. To get a command block, simply type /give @p command_block in the chat.

Step 1: Setting Up Title Times

The first thing we want to set up is the times component of the title command, and there is a very good reason for starting here. Times is one of the most important parts of the title command and is also one of the main reasons many people think their title isn’t working. By default, the times for your title are set to 0, 0, and 0 when you start up a world. Each one of those three zeros represents fade in, stay, and fade out respectively. Because they are all set to zero by default, your title will appear and disappear so quickly that you won’t even see it — which is exactly why so many people run into issues! I personally always change these values to 10, 10, and 10 as that seems like a nice comfortable length of time for the title to fade in, stay on screen, and then fade out. Of course, you can change these values to whatever suits your needs depending on what kind of command you want to create.

Step 2: Using the Action Bar

The next component to explore is the action bar. The action bar is really cool because rather than displaying text in the middle of your screen, it displays text towards the bottom of the screen — specifically just above your GUI bar. To use it, you wrap your text in quotation marks, for example "test". The reason you use inverted commas is that the command line requires your text to be in a specific format so it understands when you have finished typing. This isn’t required if you are only entering numbers, but if you want to display a word or sentence you must wrap it in those quotation marks. When you trigger the command block, you will notice the word “test” pops up in the action bar area, which looks really great in game!

Step 3: Using the Title Command

The title command works in a very similar way to the action bar, except that it displays your text right in the centre of the screen — which is the classic big title display that most Minecraft players are familiar with. Just make sure your times are set correctly before triggering it, as forgetting to update those values from the default zeroes is an easy mistake to make.

Step 4: Using the Subtitle Command

The subtitle command works in the same way as the title command, except that it displays your text beneath the main title. It is important to note that if you do not have a title actively displaying, the subtitle will not appear on its own. To get both displaying together, simply set up a title command block and a subtitle command block side by side and trigger them at the same time using shared redstone. When you press the button, both the title and subtitle will pop up together on screen. Just make sure to keep them separated if you do not want them to display at the same time.

Step 5: Using the Clear Command

The clear command does exactly what it sounds like — it instantly removes any title or subtitle that is currently being displayed on screen. So if you have a title displaying and then trigger the clear command, the title will stop instantly rather than waiting for the fade out to complete. This works for subtitles as well, so it is a handy tool when you need to quickly remove on screen text.

Step 6: Using the Reset Command

The reset command is similar to clear but works slightly differently. Reset resets the title back to its default state, effectively clearing it and removing anything that would display going forward until a new title command is triggered. If you had a title set to show something and then triggered reset, it would clear the current title and nothing would show until you set up and trigger a new one. Essentially, reset takes everything back to a clean slate.

Summary

And that is about it for the Minecraft Java title command tutorial! To quickly recap, here are all the title command components covered in this post:

• times – Sets the fade in, stay, and fade out durations for your title.
• actionbar – Displays text just above the GUI bar at the bottom of the screen.
• title – Displays text in the centre of the screen.
• subtitle – Displays text beneath the main title in the centre of the screen.
• clear – Instantly removes any currently displayed title or subtitle.
• reset – Resets the title back to its default state, clearing everything.

Thank you so much for reading this post and I really hope it all made sense! I have tried to keep things as straightforward as possible. I am also planning to do a whole bunch more tutorials, and for any Bedrock users out there — I personally find Java commands a little easier to work with and there tends to be a larger audience using them, but if you would love to see more Bedrock tutorials please let me know in the comments below. Don’t forget to leave a like, subscribe to the channel, and check out my socials in the description over on YouTube. I hope you have an awesome day and I hope to see you in the next video — see ya!