server.properties

If you start it from your home directory (/home/yourname) the server files will be created in /home/yourname. Follow these guidelines for ensuring that the server files are generated where you would expect them.

• Set aside an entire directory for all of the server files. (Things could get messy if you don`t).
  • Place your minecraft_server.jar here.
• Use the Media:Minecraft server template.txt script as a guideline for setting up a startup script for your Minecraft server.
  • Make sure it`s in your executable $PATH
  • Be sure to add the execution permission to the startup script (chmod +x file_name, or use a folder manager)
    • minecraft_server(.sh)

mod The contents of this page are not supported by Mojang AB, the Minecraft Wiki, the Minecraft IRC channel or the Minecraft Forums. See game modifications. For server moderators, see Operator. An example

With allow-flight enabled, griefers A massively destroyed castle. Griefing is the act of irritating and angering people in video games through the use of destruction, construction, or social engineering. Popularized in Minecraft by teams, griefing has become a serious will possibly be more common, because it will make their work easier. In Creative mode this has no effect.

false - Flight is not allowed (players in air for at least 5 seconds will be kicked).

true - Flight is allowed, and used if the player has a fly mod installed.

false - Nether Nether may refer to: The Nether, a hell-like dimension, filled with fire, lava, and dangerous mobs. Advancements#Nether, an advancement by entering the Nether dimension. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If portals will not work.

true - The server will allow portals Portal may refer to: Nether portal – the specific formation of obsidian blocks that create the structure used to travel to the Nether. Nether Portal (block) – the purple, indestructible, transparent, vortex-animated block that fills to send players to the Nether.

difficulty Mobs in full armor are a common sight in higher difficulty levels. Difficulty is an option in Minecraft that has a direct impact on the ease of gameplay. Contents 1 World setting 1.1 Peaceful 1.2

0 - Peaceful

1 - Easy

2 - Normal

3 - Hard

false - Players will join in the gamemode they left in.

true - Players will always join in the default gamemode.

mode of gameplay See general gameplay in Minecraft. For instructional material, see Tutorials. A fresh Survival game. Gameplay in most game modes of Minecraft consists mainly of adding and destroying a variety of different blocks

0 - Survival

1 - Creative

2 - Adventure

3 - Spectator

structures Every specific group of blocks purposefully formed in Minecraft based on coding is part of a natural structure. Contents 1 The Overworld 1.1 Terrain 1.1.1 Mountain 1.1.2 Floating "island" 1.1.3 Hollows 1.1.4 Hill 1.1.5 Beach

false - Structures will not be generated in new chunks.

true - Structures will be generated in new chunks.

Note: Dungeons will still generate if this is set to false.

Characters such as ` (apostrophe) may need to be escaped by adding a backslash before them.

Some examples are: minecraft, 404, 1a2b3c.

DEFAULT - Standard world with hills, valleys, water, etc.

FLAT - A flat world with no features, meant for building.

LARGEBIOMES - Same as default but all biomes are larger.

AMPLIFIED - Same as default but world-generation height limit is increased.

CUSTOMIZED - Same as default unless generator-settings is set to a preset.

-1 - disable watchdog entirely (this disable option was added in 14w32a)

world border World border First appearances See History Java Edition Only See the customizable border. For the physical edge of the playable world, see World boundary. For the phenomenon that existed before Beta 1.8,

Examples:

• Setting max-world-size to 1000 will allow you to have a 2000x2000 world border.
• Setting max-world-size to 4000 will give you an 8000 x 8000 world border.

• The MOTD does support color and formatting codes A book showing the possible formatting options with the character that performs them. Formatting codes, also known as color codes, add color and modifications to text in-game. Text in Minecraft can be formatted with the .
• The MOTD supports special characters, such as "⃢ₙℽ". Be that as it may, such characters must be converted to escaped Unicode form. An online converter can be found here
• If the MOTD is over 59 characters, the server list will likely report a communication error.

-1 - disable compression entirely

0 - compress everything

Note: The Ethernet spec requires that packets less than 64 bytes become padded to 64 bytes. Thus, setting a value lower than 64 may not be beneficial. It is also not recommended to exceed the MTU, typically 1500 bytes.

Minecraft Minecraft Author(s) Mojang AB (Credits) Markus "Notch" Persson (Creator) Jens "Jeb" Bergensten (Lead Developer) Jon "jonkagstrom" Kågström (AI Programmer) Nathan "Dinnerbone" Adams Erik "Grum" Broes Michael "Searge" Stoyke Thomas "ProfMobius" Guimbretière Agnes "LadyAgnes" Larsson Maria

true - Enabled. The server will assume it has an Internet connection and check every connecting player.

false - Disabled. The server will not attempt to check connecting players.

1 - Ops can bypass spawn protection.

2 - Ops can use all singleplayer cheats commands (except /publish, as it is not on servers; along with /debug) and use command blocks. Command blocks and Realms operators/owners have this level.

3 - Ops can use most multiplayer-exclusive commands (all except level 4 commands).

4 - Ops can use all commands including /stop, /save-all, /save-on, and /save-off.

Note: Idle time is reset when the server receives one of the following packets:

• Click Window
• Enchant Item
• Update Sign
• Player Digging
• Player Block Placement
• Held Item Change
• Animation (swing arm)
• Entity Action
• Client Status
• Chat Message
• Use Entity

true - Players will be able to kill each other.

false - Players cannot kill other players (also known as Player versus Environment (PvE)).

Note: Indirect damage sources spawned by players (such as lava Lava Transparency Yes Luminance Yes, 15 Blast resistance 500 Tool Renewable No Stackable N/A Flammable No Drops None Data values Flowing Lava dec: 10 hex: A bin: 1010 Still Lava dec: 11 hex: B bin: 1011 Name Flowing Lava flowing_lava Still , fire Fire Transparency Yes Luminance Yes, 15 Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable No Stackable N/A Flammable No Drops None Data value dec: 51 hex: 33 bin: 110011 Name fire Fire is a harmful non-solid block. Contents 1 , TNT TNT Transparency Partial (cannot attach other blocks) Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable Yes Drops Itself Data value dec: 46 hex: 2E bin: 101110 Name tnt TNT is a block and to some extent water Water Transparency Partial (-2 to light) Luminance No Blast resistance 500 (Flowing) 500 (Still) Tool Renewable Yes Stackable N/A Flammable No Drops None Data values Flowing Water dec: 08 hex: 8 bin: 1000 Still Water dec: 09 hex: 9 bin: 1001 , sand Sand Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 2.5 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Experience Smelted: 0.1 Drops Itself Data values Sand dec: 120 hex: C0 bin: 11000 Red Sand dec: 121 hex: C1 bin: 11001 Name sand This and gravel Gravel Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 3 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Gravel (90%) Flint (10%) Data value dec: 13 hex: D bin: 1101 Name gravel Gravel is a block that is affected ) will still deal damage to other players.

Set to blank, or the IPIntrusion prevention is a preemptive approach to network security used to identify potential threats and respond to them swiftly you want your server to run (listen) on.

false - disable snooping.

true - enable snooping.

animals "Monster" redirects here. For the mob called "monster" in the code, see Human. Mobs are living, moving game entities. The term "mob" is short for "mobile". 1] Contents 1 Spawning 2 Behavior 3 List of

true - Animals spawn as normal.

false - Animals will immediately vanish.

Tip: if you have major lag, turn this off/set to false.

true - Enabled. Monsters will appear at night and in the dark.

false - Disabled. No monsters.

This setting has no effect if difficulty = 0 (peaceful). If difficulty is not = 0, a monster can still spawn from a Monster Spawner Monster Spawner Type Solid Block Requirements None Physics No Transparency Partial (doesn t block light) Luminance No (Small amount of light for Pocket Edition) Blast resistance 25 Hardness 5 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable .

Tip: if you have major lag, turn this off/set to false.

true - Enabled. Villagers will spawn.

false - Disabled. No villagers.

true - Enabled. Enable Linux packet sending/receiving optimization

false - Disabled. Disable Linux packet sending/receiving optimization

10 is the default/recommended. If you have major lag, reduce this value.

With a whitelist enabled, users not on the whitelist will be unable to connect. Intended for private servers, such as those for real-life friends or strangers carefully selected via an application process, for example.

false - No white list is used.

true - The file whitelist.json is used to generate the white list.

Note: Ops are automatically white listed, and there is no need to add them to the whitelist.

true - Enabled. The server will check all names with Minecraft.net

false - Disabled. The server will make sure the IP matches

true - The server will be displayed in the server list - anyone can see it.

false - Only people with the URL which can be found in externalurl.txt and people who know the IP and port can join the server

• A single line of text. Characters such as ` (apostrophe) may need to be escaped by adding a backslash before them.

Note: If you try to set it higher than 3 it will be changed back to 3.

true - the server will allow saplings to grow into trees.

false - the server will not allow saplings to grow into trees.