Server Properties Minecraft Guide

Grants the flight ability to players in survival mode, but only those who have client mods to fly. This “allow-flight” setting also resolves the kicked for flying message, if they get stuck in the air for more than 5 seconds.

The “allow-nether” setting toggles if Nether portals send players to its dimension. If disabled, anyone attempting to do this cannot successfully teleport. Visit here if you want the End dimension toggled.

Set the server difficulty to peaceful, easy, normal, or hard. This “difficulty” setting alters mob damage, hunger, poison effects, and more.

Edit the displayed message for players to see in their server list. Color codes can be used too, which is achieved by using this format in the “motd” setting.

Determines the size of protected areas at spawn point, beginning with a 3×3 radius and increasing by 2×2 with each value. This “spawn-protection” setting is set to 16 by default, preventing player interactions inside its radius.

Use the “view-distance” setting to determine the amount of world data being sent to the client. Change “simulation-distance” to control when the server updates entities from the player’s distance to them.

Change the “gamemode” setting to survival, creative, adventure, or spectator for the Minecraft server. Use “force-gamemode” to set all players in-game to this gamemode.

Toggle the “enable-command-block” option to enable command blocks in the server. Players must be in creative mode before placing them in-game.

Controls the distance entities need to be within players before being rendered. Set the “entity-broadcast-range-percentage” option at higher percentage values for larger distances.

Enable PvP combat so players can damage others, enabled by default. The “pvp” setting also allows users to shoot themselves with arrows, useful with punch enchantments.

Enable the “hardcore” setting to toggle hardcore mode, allowing players to permanently die from the server by being placed in spectator. Use this with caution!

Edit the “max-tick-time” setting to determine the number of milliseconds a single tick can process before the watchdog stops the Minecraft server.

Enter values in the “level-seed” option to change your world’s seed. Use “level-type” to determine the map’s generation. Used for custom worlds on Minecraft servers.

Control what permissions are given to operator players with the “op-permission-level” setting. Review this guide for more information about this functionality.

Set the maximum number of blocks for the world, expressed with a radius. Edit the “max-world-size” option to achieve this, but make sure to not exceed too high of values.

Used for enabling experimental Minecraft updates. Change the “” setting accordingly, such as ‘vanilla, update_1_21’ for upcoming features.