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How to set a death counter in minecraft

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Christopher Ramos

Published Mar 26, 2026

How to set a death counter in minecraft

In this episode of OMGcraft, Chad shows you how to setup a death counter that works in Single and Multiplayer worlds. This can be used for Minigames, Servers…

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Use commands in Minecraft to make a death counter for you and all of your friends on any server!!Works on any edtion of Minecraft!!If you have any questions …

Try this: do the first one first then the next one. /scoreboard objectives add Deaths deathCount /scoreboard objectives setdisplay list Deaths. This will display the player’s amount of deaths when you push the Tab button. Share.

Every time a player dies it counts it, and add it there. If you rather want the death counter to always be shown. Write: /scoreboard objectives setdisplay sidebar Deaths. It should now write “Set the display objective in slot ‘sidebar’ to ‘Deaths’”. The Death counter should now always be shown at the right side of your screen, as on this screenshot. I hope you enjoyed this guide.

Setting up a Death Counter First, you will need a command block ofcourse. You can get one by doing: /give [player name] minecraft:command_block. Once you’ve get one, you place it down and you write: /scoreboard objectives add Kills totalKillCount Then click done. Place a button before it and press it. Now you place another command block. Now you write:

So this will be a simple tutorial on how to setup the kill count on the scoreboard without the use of the command blocks so here we go So the first command you will have to run is /scoreboard objectives add Kills player KillCount Kills , If you did this correct a message should pop up saying ‘ Added new objective ‘Kills’ successfully

This is the command for creating an objective named “Deaths”, that will have the death count: /scoreboard objectives add Deaths deathCount And this is the command used to make an objective called “PlayerKills” that will have the player kill count: /scoreboard objectives add PlayerKills playerKillCount

Okay so I already set up a death counter but everyone is at zero deaths when they should have some. They all have zero because I guess I set it up to late. So I was wondering how do I add on deaths to people?

How do I set up a death counter?

Setting up a Death Counter. First, you will need a command block ofcourse. You can get one by doing: /give [player name] minecraft:command_block. Once you’ve get one, you place it down and you write: Then click done. Place a button before it and press it. Now you place another command block.

How do I display the death counter on the scoreboard?

Write: /scoreboard objectives setdisplay sidebar Deaths It should now write “Set the display objective in slot ‘sidebar’ to ‘Deaths’”. The Death counter should now always be shown at the right side of your screen, as on this screenshot.

Where is the death counter in Fortnite?

The Death counter should now always be shown at the right side of your screen, as on this screenshot. I hope you enjoyed this guide. If you have any questions, feel free to tweet at me as always.

How do I see how many people have died in Minecraft?

The sidebar just has the label deaths followed by the list, and then there’s the number next to the player shown in tab next to connection. Thanks. 1.14.4 Hope this helps! A place for all things about commands and command blocks in vanilla Minecraft; to share, to question, to discuss, and more!