Trust and Per Bot

Trust & Per-Bot Management

Companions are owned by the player who summons them, and they remember their own settings (name, skin, personality, and now a trust list) individually. This page covers managing several bots separately and letting friends help command one.

Each bot is its own

The everyday management commands act on the companion you are standing next to, so two companions can be set up completely differently:

• /ai name <name> — rename the nearby bot
• /ai skin <name> — re-skin it (see Custom Skins)
• /ai personality [<id>] — change how it talks & acts (see Personalities)

The Bots panel (visual manager)

On a busy server with lots of companions, run:

/ai bots

On a Java client this opens the Bots panel — a tab alongside Settings, Admin, and My Settings. It lists every bot on the server, each labelled with who owns it, in a scrollable picker. Select one and you'll see its details (owner, mode, dimension, position, health, personality, trusted count) and buttons to:

• Command it — Come, Follow, Stay, Stop — if you're the owner, a trusted player, or an admin;
• Manage it — rename, re-skin, change personality, or dismiss — if you're the owner or an admin.

Buttons you're not allowed to use are greyed out, and the server checks again when you press one, so the panel can't be used to control a bot you don't have rights to. This is the visual way to manage many bots individually instead of acting on "the nearest one".

On Bedrock or a vanilla client (no Blockpal GUI), /ai bots instead prints a text list of the companions you own. The text command is always available.

The everyday /ai name, /ai skin, /ai personality and /ai trust commands still work on the companion you're standing next to, if you prefer commands to the panel.

Trusting other players

By default only the owner can give a companion orders. To let a friend command a specific bot, stand next to that bot and run:

/ai trust <player>     # the player must be online
/ai untrust <player>   # remove them (works for offline players by name too)
/ai trust list         # who's trusted on this bot
/ai trust clear        # remove everyone

Trust is per bot, so you can give different friends access to different companions. The trusted player gets a heads-up message when you add them.

What trusted players can and can't do

Action	Owner	Trusted player	Server admin
Orders: come / follow / stay / stop	✅	✅	✅
Locate, view inventory	✅	✅	✅
Give an AI task (/ai <task>, chat)	✅	✅	✅
Rename / re-skin / change personality	✅	❌	✅
Dismiss the bot	✅	❌	✅
Edit the trust list	✅	❌	✅

Trusted players can command the bot in chat too (e.g. "Ethan, follow me"), exactly like the owner — see Talking to Your Assistant. Anyone who isn't the owner, trusted, or an admin is politely turned away.

Security note: these checks are enforced on the server, not just hidden in the UI, so a modified client can't command or dismiss a bot it isn't allowed to. See Security.