New Minecraft Command Block Elevators Simple Command tutorial. Make Elevators In Minecraft Java!

Hey everybody, it’s UnderMyCap and welcome back to another video! Today I’m going to be showing you how to make a very cool and very fast elevator for your Minecraft world using commands. If you’d prefer to watch the video version, you can check it out here: New Minecraft Command Block Elevators – Simple Command Tutorial.

What You’ll Need

The elevator itself is made up of two platforms and only requires two command blocks — one for going up and one for going down. For demonstration purposes, I’ve used two bits of wood and the rest is stone, but you can absolutely change these to whatever blocks you like. The key thing is that each platform uses a different block type so that the commands don’t conflict with each other.

How It Works

When you stand on the elevator platform and jump, the command is executed and you get teleported up to the next floor. To go back down, you stand on the darker wood block and jump, which teleports you back down. It’s a really clean system and it works across multiple stories too. One of the great things about this design is that you have to actively jump to trigger the teleport, meaning you can walk around the platform without accidentally being sent anywhere — which is especially useful in multiplayer servers where not everyone may want to use the elevator at a given moment.

The Command

There is essentially just one base command, and once you have it set up it can be altered in as many ways as you like. The command uses /execute, which runs the command as every individual player rather than everyone at once. This means that in a multiplayer server, only the player who is standing on the specific block will be teleported — not everyone on the server at the same time.

Here is how the command is structured. You start with /execute as @a, which tells the command block to run the command for each person. Then you add run execute at @s, which runs it specifically for the individual player. From there, you test whether the block beneath the player is a specific block type — in this example, stone. If it is, you add run teleport @s ~ ~7 ~, where the middle value represents the Y axis. So if you want to teleport the player seven blocks up, you set that middle value to 7. I recommend testing for the block two blocks beneath the player rather than one, so that the teleport only triggers when the player jumps rather than simply by standing on the block.

To summarise, the full command looks like this:

/execute as @a run execute at @s if block ~ ~-2 ~ stone run teleport @s ~ ~7 ~

Going Down

For the going down command block, you simply duplicate your existing command block using Ctrl + middle click and then change two things. First, invert the Y value to a negative number — so ~7 becomes ~-7. Second, change the block type to something different from the one used for going up. This ensures the two commands don’t interfere with each other. In the video I used wool as the second block type to clearly separate the two directions.

Making It Flexible

This system is really flexible. You can change the number of blocks to teleport by simply adjusting the Y value in the command, and you can use any block type you like for the platform — for example, a stone brick slab works just as well as plain stone. As long as the block types for going up and going down are different, everything works smoothly.

Wrapping Up

That’s all there is to it! This is a really fast and simple tutorial, and a huge thank you to the subscriber who suggested this idea — your contribution is genuinely appreciated. If you have any ideas for future videos or tutorials you’d like to see, please leave them in the comments down below. Don’t forget to leave a like and subscribe to the channel for more Minecraft content. My socials are also in the description so make sure to go check those out — I can’t wait to see you in the next one!