How To Configure Your Minecraft Server
It’s common to enable flight on your Minecraft server, change difficulty, toggle pvp, change motd and much more. To change Minecraft server settings you’ll have to edit a file named server.properties. Alternatively, for more advanced users, you can make yourself OP and make many of these changes via in-game commands.
Changing Server Settings
- Access the Game Host Bros Panel and stop your Minecraft server.
- Go to
Configuration > File Manager. - Open
server.properties, edit the settings you want to change and then click save. - Start your Server.
These are the most commonly changed Minecraft server settings. A full list can be found Here.
Minecraft Server Settings
| Setting | Default Value | Other Possible Values | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| allow-flight | false | true | Allows users to use flight on the server while in Survival mode. |
| difficulty | easy | peaceful, normal, hard | Defines the difficulty (such as damage dealt by mobs and the way hunger and poison affect players) of the server. |
| enable-command-block | false | true | Enables command blocks. |
| enforce-whitelist | false | true | Enforces the whitelist on the server. |
| gamemode | survival | creative, adventure, spectator | Defines the mode of gameplay. |
| hardcore | false | true | Server difficulty is ignored and set to hard, and players are set to spectator mode if they die. |
| level-name | world | (Any valid string) | The “level-name” value is used as the world name and its folder name. |
| level-seed | blank | (Any valid seed value) | Sets a world seed for the player’s world, as in Singleplayer. The world generates with a random seed if left blank. |
| level-type | minecraft:normal | minecraft:flat, minecraft:large_biomes, minecraft:amplified, minecraft:custom | Determines the world preset that is generated. |
| max-players | 20 | (Any positive integer) | The maximum number of players that can play on the server at the same time. |
| motd | A Minecraft Server | (Any valid string) | This is the message that is displayed in the server list of the client. |
| player-idle-timeout | 0 | (Any positive integer) | If non-zero, players are kicked from the server if they are idle for more than that many minutes. |
| pvp | true | false | Enables Player versus Player combat. |