How To Setup Your Server.Properties File (Minecraft Server Configuration)

What is going on everybody so today I’m gonna be showing you guys basically how to configure your server see after you get a setup you figured out to get people to join I’m gonna show you how to basically edit the server top properties file which right now I’m creating fresh

So it’s gonna be exactly how it would be out-of-the-box if you were gonna start server up yourself for the first time so I’m gonna let the server initialize here and then we’re gonna go to take a look at what’s inside of here just gonna let it finish making spawned

All right so now that it’s done we’re gonna stop our server we want to shut down we’re editing the configuration file we can always reload it if this server is up but right now we’re just gonna shut it down press Continue and we’re gonna edit this and basically I’ll some of you guys

Aren’t going to have the dot properties file extension right here associated with notepad or notepad plus plus or whatever text editor you’re using so the way to do this is to right-click on the file click open with and then what you want to do is if notepad doesn’t show up

Here you can click more apps and you can scroll through until you find notepad or WordPad or anything that basically is a text editor I’m gonna use notepad so this is what the default 1.1 for server dot properties file looks like so I’m gonna go through everything here and I’m

Gonna tell you guys what you should be worried about and what what you really shouldn’t be worried about so I’m just gonna up the font here so we can read what we’re looking at okay so spawn protection what spawn protection does is if you’re not an opt player on the

Server which means you don’t have operator status you don’t have access to the commands and you can’t you can’t kick people banned people you’re just a normal player there’s gonna be an area around spawn if this number is anything over zero that is basically the number of blocks away from spawn that someone

Is not allowed to break so basically it prevents the spawned blocks from being griefed so I usually turn it on or off but sometimes it can mess up like if you’re trying to build near spawn and the person you’re trying to build with isn’t an operator they’re not going to

Be able to break or place anything there so that’s just something to think about Mac stick time I’m pretty sure that this right here will see that if you have a tick that takes this long then the service obviously crashed or it’s hanging so it’s gonna stop it

Query poor I’m not sure what this does I wouldn’t worry about it generator settings what this is gonna do is I think you can put in custom settings here and that’s going to basically change the world generation so you can change like the level of the sea level you can change the biomes

Basically how the world generates I think you can put settings after the equals sign here and those will apply when it’s generating a new portion of the world or a new map force game mode what Forest game mode does is let’s say I’m in creative mode and the default

Game mode for the server which we haven’t got to yet which is right here I’ll say it’s survival but let’s say that I’m in our creative mode and I leave the server and I rejoined is it gonna force me back into the game mode of the server which is survival so in

This instance it would not if you wanted that to happen every time you join the server you’d be set back to survival no matter what you were when you’re left you put that to true all-out another true that’s gonna enable or disable nether portal functionality and force whitelist

What this is gonna do is turn your whitelist on or off now game-mode survival this is where you can set the game mode of the server like I was saying before when someone joins they’re gonna be put into survival mode if you set this to creative or adventure it’ll

Do the same thing broadcast console to ops true so let’s say the console is running commands the operators on the server will all be notified in the bottom of their screen down here what commands are being run or what’s happening you can turn that on or off with this right here

Naval query I wouldn’t worry about that player idle timeout this right here is gonna basically AF cake kick people after a certain amount of time I’m believe that numbers in seconds so if I set this to you know 600 seconds 30 10 minutes so difficulty easy this is just a

Difficulty normal minecraft difficulty broadcast arc on tops it’s the same thing as the other thing with Archon come in so I wouldn’t worry about that spawn monsters this is gonna enable or disable spawning of hostile mobs op permission level I wouldn’t worry about this too much right now leave this at

Default but what this will do is you can switch this between I think it’s 1 in 4 and basically it it’ll cap off like what commands operators can do so if I set this down at 2 I’m pretty sure operators wouldn’t be able to basically make other

Players operators you know what I mean like you can kind of level it but there’s no way to make someone on the server a level 2 operator and then someone else a level 4 it’s just you said everybody’s level the same thing in order to do that you’re talking about

Plugins and a whole nother deal PvP obviously you know player versus player that will enable PvP combat on the server turn on or off for the server WOD snooper enabled don’t worry about that level type default but you can set it super flat here basically whatever different options there are when you

Select to create your world you can change that or type that in here and that will apply that that setting a hardcore false you can set hardcore to true and then if you die on the server it will kick you and then ban you so essentially you can’t join back unless a

Moderator or an operator of the server happens to remove you from the banlist enable command blocks it does exactly what it says it enables and disables command block functionality on the server network compression threshold don’t worry about that max players 20 this is going to set the player cap for your server

Mack’s world sighs this right here is gonna set up how far out from spawn that you can go before the world border resource pack shot one don’t worry about that function permission level don’t worry about that don’t worry about the Archon port server port this one’s actually pretty important this right

Here is the port that your servers going to be running on so let’s say you change this to instead of six five it was like seven zero this would be the port that your servers on this is the port that needs to be port forwarded so this

Setting is kind of important if you change it it’s always going to be two five five six five unless you change it server IP address I always leave this blank spawn NPCs true so what this is gonna do obviously is spawner basically allow or not allow villagers and other

NPCs have spawned allow flight this is going to allow or disable fly on your server right if you haven’t been kicked from minecraft because flying is not enabled on the server that’s what this setting is right here you can enable it or disable it level name world this is a

Very important setting right here right here is how you determine the name of the world file so let me show you here see how this is called world if I was to change this to world two and save this and then if we relaunch the server which

Will do it right now it’s gonna create a new world called world to now it’s going to generate the spawn area for it and do everything there so let’s say you have multiple Maps on your server and you want to switch between them you can just shut the server down go into this

Setting this right here change this setting and relaunch the server and now you effectively have just put a different map on your server so walks out of that for now go back to this view distance 10 what view distance does is this says that from where a

Player stands the server is gonna give the player information about 10 chunks away from him so he’ll be able to load see interact and you know basically load the chunks 10 10 chunks away from him so if if you’re having problems with lag and stuff maybe it might be beneficial

Turn this setting down so that every player on your server actually loads less of the map resource pack this is where you can put a link to a resource pack and you can set that up for your server I might make a video on that in the future spawn animals this does

Exactly what it says it will enable or disable spawning of animals whitelist false okay so this whitelist right here this right here is how you can enable or disable the whitelist on your server but in order for the whitelist to take any effect this setting up here the enforce enforce

Whitelist right here this needs to be true if that’s not true than the whitelist won’t work our con password this is where you can set up the password to send arcane Archon commands to the server I wouldn’t worry about this generate structures this is important because this will generate

Basically allow generation of villages and basically another fortresses and end cities things like that if you don’t have this enabled then none of that will spawn in the map sometimes you don’t want that stuff to spawn if you’re trying to make like a super flat that doesn’t have any villages in it or

Something you would turn this off online mode true this one’s really important too because a lot of people are asking me do I need a premium account to join a server can I make a server can I make a crack server yeah you can in the way

That you do that is you turn off the authentication check so when someone joins a minecraft server it basically goes to the server can contacts Mojang authentication servers and they basically check if the person joinings GUI D is alright and everything matches their name and if it

Does then you’re good that you can join the server and you’re allowed in but if it doesn’t you’re not allowed on the server and you’ll get that errors has failed to verify username now in order to avoid that and completely disable that authentication check you can turn

This online mode to false oh but that’s also going to disable all the skins of everybody on your server and other things like that because it doesn’t know who is who max billed height 256 I believe the max is 256 but you can set this lower I’m pretty sure level seed

This is where you can set a custom seat if you want you’d put that here prevent proxy connections don’t worry about that use native transport true I wouldn’t worry about that message of the day this is where you can change your message of the day so if we want to say this is

Roy’s server we’ll be good and this is what will show up in the server browser when we add it enable our con false is how you can enable or disable sending our con commands to the server like I said we’re not gonna worry about that right now

And that’s pretty much it for this file I want you guys to understand that this file is probably most likely gonna be in a completely different order when you guys look at it it is every time I look at it and that doesn’t matter you just have to make sure that you’re changing

The right setting after what it says here so that was basically me explaining that and let me just show you guys real quick when I load this up that you guys can actually see that message of the day show up on the server so me go back into

Here let me start up my server and when that’s done I show team minecraft so now that we got the server set up it’s completely running you can see this was the old message of the day says a minecraft server and now if i refresh it

It should update to the new one that we set in the server dot properties file if you scroll down you can say this is voice dev server and if we join it it’s up so that’s gonna be it for this video guys I hope you guys enjoy this and if I

Helped you in any way at all be sure to leave a like definitely leave a comment if you guys have any problems or you guys want to say something nice and yeah check out my other tutorials and yeah that’s pretty much it for this one guys have a good day