BACK
Return to where you were before your last teleport, portal, or command that moved you.
What it does: Teleports you to the location you were at before you last moved via teleport or portal
Persists across logins: Yes, your back location is saved even if you disconnect
Does not work from: The lobby/spawn world, event worlds
Overview
Every time you teleport somewhere, the server quietly saves where you were standing before it happened. Running /back returns you to that saved spot. This works across most teleport types including commands, portals, and other players requesting you. Your saved location persists through disconnects, so you can log off, log back in, and still use /back to return to where you were.
Command
| Situation | What You See |
|---|---|
| Teleport succeeds | Teleported back to your last location. |
| No location saved yet | No previous location recorded. |
| The world is no longer loaded | That world is unavailable. |
| Only event world locations saved | No non-event /back location is available. |
| Feature is disabled | Back is disabled right now. |
What Saves a Back Location
A back location is saved any time you are teleported, with a few specific exceptions. The location saved is always where you were standing just before the teleport happened.
| Action | Saves Back Location? |
|---|---|
| Using /tp, /tphere, or accepting a teleport request | Yes |
| Using /home or /spawn | Yes |
| Going through a nether portal | Yes |
| Going through an end portal | Yes |
| Going through an end gateway | Yes |
| Any other server-triggered teleport | Yes |
| Waking up from a bed | No |
| Dismounting a horse or vehicle | No |
| Teleporting while in the lobby/spawn world | No |
| Teleporting into or within an event world | No |
Portals and Where You Land
When you walk through a nether portal, end portal, or end gateway, the server saves the location from just before you entered, not the portal frame itself. This is intentional. If it saved the exact portal block, using /back would put you back inside the portal and immediately send you through it again.
Instead, it saves a position a short distance back from the portal entrance so that when you use /back you land safely on the approach side without getting pulled through again.
Event Worlds
Certain temporary event worlds (such as Echelite Harvester worlds and Miners Dream worlds) are fully excluded from the back system. Locations inside them are never saved, and /back will never send you into them. If your most recent non-excluded location was somewhere normal in the survival world, that is where /back will take you.
If you have only ever been teleported within event worlds with no prior normal-world teleport on record, /back will tell you no non-event location is available.
The Lobby and Spawn
The lobby and spawn area is treated as a neutral starting point. Teleports that happen while you are standing in the spawn world do not save a back location. This means using /back after returning from spawn will take you to wherever you were before you went to spawn, not back to spawn itself.
Location Persistence
Your saved back location is written to disk immediately after each teleport. If you disconnect and log back in, your previous location is still there and /back will work exactly as expected. The server does not clear your back location on logout.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Can I use /back more than once to go further back in history?
A: No. The system keeps one saved location. Using /back takes you there, and that is the only stored position. There is no multi-step history.
Q: Will /back work after I die?
A: Death respawning is handled separately. What /back saves is your location before a teleport. If you died and respawned without any other teleport happening, /back takes you to wherever you were before your most recent teleport prior to dying.
Q: I went through a nether portal. Will /back put me back in the nether or in the overworld?
A: It returns you to where you were standing just before you entered the portal, on whichever side you came from. If you were in the overworld and walked into a nether portal, /back sends you back to the overworld at that spot.
Q: I used /spawn and then /back. Where does it take me?
A: It takes you to wherever you were standing before you used /spawn, since that teleport saved your position. Using /back from there again would tell you there is no previous location.
Q: Does /back work if the world I was in is no longer loaded?
A: No. If the world your saved location is in has been unloaded or removed, you will see "That world is unavailable." and the teleport will not happen.
Q: Someone teleported to me using /tphere. Does that save my back location?
A: Yes. Being teleported by another player's request counts as a teleport and saves your location before you moved.