How To Reset Player Data On Your Minecraft Server

A file is created for each player who has connected to your servers. It contains information such as their location and inventory data. Sometimes when things go wrong on the server, you're required to delete a player's data file to resolve the issue. After deleting their data file, players will be able connect as though they were a brand new player.

Follow these steps to successfully reset individual player data on your server:

Before proceeding with any tutorial that requires manipulating server files, always have your server offline to prevent corruption!

1. We first need the UUID number of the player. Go to https://namemc.com/ to enter the Minecraft Name of your player to reset the data.

(Universally Unique Identifier, or UUID, is a unique id given to each player when they join a server to make it easy for referencing the player, item storage and accessing information regarding the player)

1. After you have found your player, a unique identifier will be displayed under their name. Similar to what is shown in the below image. Write down the UUID in a notepad/sticky note to reference later on.
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2. Now head over to your ServerMiner Control Panel and click on File Manager. If you have some experience with FTPs, these steps can also be copied to FileZilla.

3. Enter the folder name of the current world you have uploaded to your server. To find out which world you are currently using, go to the Minecraft Worlds tab in your ServerMiner Control Panel.

4. Navigate to the playerdata folder and enter it, this is where all the data (Inventory/Positions) of the players who join your server are stored.

5. If you don't have many files, you can search for the UUID and refer to it to the UUID that you have written down. Else, you can use the shortcut Ctrl+F to search for the UUID. Once you have found it, click on the checkbox and hit Delete.

Congratulations! Congratulations! Now you can start your server and invite the player to join! They will then spawn in the world without any items in their inventory.