Actions

Actions

All loggable action types.

Select the kind of entries with a: (or action:). + means added or placed, - means removed or broken. Several actions can be separated by commas, for example a:+block,container.

Blocks

Action	Meaning
block	Placed and broken
+block	Placed
-block	Broken
click	Interaction (door, lever, chest, ...)

Block updates: State changes without placing or breaking, such as grass to path, stripping a log or changing an item in a frame, appear as -block (old state) plus +block (new state).

Containers

Action	Meaning
container	Both directions
+container	Put into a container
-container	Taken out of a container

Player inventory

Action	Meaning
inventory	Both directions
+inventory	Received (crafting, pickup)
-inventory	Lost (dropping)

Items

item, +item and -item, or one of these:

Action	Meaning
drop	Dropped
pickup	Picked up (needs log.pickup: true)
throw	Thrown (snowballs, potions, tridents, ...)
shoot	Shot with a bow or crossbow
destroy	Item destroyed (fire, lava, ...)
create	Spawned in creative mode
sell / buy	Villager trading

Ender chest changes and broken tools are logged as items too.

Entities

Action	Meaning
kill	Killed
spawn	Spawned (for example with a spawn egg)

Other

Action	Meaning
chat	Chat messages
command	Commands
sign	Sign text
session	Logins and logouts (+session login, -session logout)
username	Username changes
frame	Paintings and frames (placing and removing)
death	Player deaths

Username changes

Players are tracked by UUID. Searching an old name with u: finds the entries of the current name, and a:username shows the changes.

More actions

Action	Meaning
teleport	Teleports (Paper only)
staff	Staff actions of the audit log, see /up audit
agg	Summary rows created by /up compact

Changes made by commands

Changes from /fill, /setblock and /clone are normal block entries (block, +block, -block). In lookups they carry a note such as (/fill). Show only these entries with the tag #command, see Parameters and Tags.

Aliases

Alias	Same as
+, place, placed	+block
-, break, broke	-block
put, take	+container, -container
inv, +inv, -inv	inventory, +inventory, -inventory
use, interact	click
join, login	+session
quit, logout	-session
tp	teleport (Paper only)
audit	staff
aggregated	agg

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Related pages: Parameters and Tags · Lookup Examples