Game rules

/gamerule works like in Bedrock. Each world keeps its own rules in its level.dat, so worlds made with Minecraft keep theirs, and a rule changed in one world does not change the others.

/gamerule                         list the rules of your world
/gamerule keepinventory           show one rule
/gamerule keepinventory true      change it
/gamerule pvp false lobby         change it in another loaded world

The console uses the default world unless a world is named. Permission: pocketmine.command.gamerule (operators).

Rules only set the default outcome: plugins still get the events (deaths, damage, block breaking, explosions) and can change the result.

Rules

Rule	Default	Effect
dodaylightcycle	true	Time of day advances.
doweathercycle	true	Weather changes by itself.
domobspawning	true	Mobs spawn naturally.
doinsomnia	true	Phantoms spawn for players who haven't slept.
dopatrolspawning	true	Pillager patrols spawn.
dotraderspawning	true	Wandering traders spawn.
dofiretick	true	Fire spreads and burns out.
domobloot	true	Mobs drop items and experience.
dotiledrops	true	Broken blocks drop items.
doentitydrops	true	Entities such as minecarts and boats drop their item.
doimmediaterespawn	false	Skip the death screen.
keepinventory	false	Players keep items and experience when they die.
naturalregeneration	true	Players heal when their hunger bar is full.
mobgriefing	true	Mobs change blocks (creeper explosions, endermen…).
tntexplodes	true	TNT explodes.
tntexplosiondropdecay	false	true: only some of the blocks broken by TNT drop.
projectilescanbreakblocks	true	Projectiles break blocks such as pointed dripstone and decorated pots.
respawnblocksexplode	true	Beds outside the Overworld and respawn anchors outside the Nether explode.
pvp	true	Players can hurt each other.
falldamage / firedamage / drowningdamage / freezedamage	true	Each kind of damage applies.
showcoordinates	false	Coordinates on screen.
showdaysplayed	false	Days played on screen.
showdeathmessages	true	Death messages in chat.
showtags / showbordereffect / showrecipemessages	true	Client display options (item tooltips, border particles, recipe toasts).
locatorbar	true	The bar showing the direction of the other players.
recipesunlock	true	Recipes are unlocked as you play (false: all of them from the start).
dolimitedcrafting	false	Only unlocked recipes can be crafted.
randomtickspeed	1	Multiplies how fast crops grow, leaves decay, etc. (0 stops it).
playerssleepingpercentage	100	Share of the players who must sleep to skip the night.
spawnradius	10	Blocks around the world spawn where new players appear.
commandblocksenabled, commandblockoutput, sendcommandfeedback, maxcommandchainlength, functioncommandlimit		Command rules, kept with the world like in Bedrock.

Related settings

• mobs.disabled-worlds in pocketmine.yml: worlds with no mobs at all (no AI, spawning, patrols or raids), for lobbies. To only stop natural spawning, use /gamerule domobspawning false in that world.
• difficulty and hardcore in server.properties.