What Is The Server.Properties File
The server.properties file is where your server’s configurations and settings are stored.
While the default configuration of a new Minecraft server works for most situations, you may wish to customize your server by tweaking a few of the configuration options and this will require you to modify the server.properties file.
Configuring The Server’s Settings
The server.properties file is a delicate file and editing it in the wrong way can break your minecraft server and prevent it from starting, so if you edit the ile you must respect its structure.
All Entries in the server.properties will have an “=” after the key’s name
| Name | Key | Default Value | Decription | Acceptable values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spawn Monsters | spawn-monsters | enabled | Controls whether or not monsters or hostile mobs will spawn. | Enabled or Disabled |
| Player vs Player | pvp | enabled | Controls whether or not players can harm each other. | Enabled or Disabled |
| Online Mode | online-mode | enabled | Controls whether or not the server will authenticate players with Mojang’s servers. | Enabled or Disabled |
| Spawn Animals | spawn-animals | enabled | Controls whether or not animals will spawn in your worlds. | Enabled or Disabled |
| Protected Spawn Size | spawn-protection | 16 | Controls the number of blocks in each direction from your world’s spawn block that cannot be interacted with without being opped. | Any interger between 0-16 (0 will disable spawn protection) |
| Whitelisting | white-list | Disabled | Controls whether or not whitelisting is enabled is used. | Enabled or Disabled |
| Allow Nether | allow-nether | enabled | Controls whether players can travel to the Nether. | Enabled or Disabled |
| View Distance | view-distance | 10 | Controls the amount of world data that can be seen by a player at any given location. | It has a minimum value of 3 and a maximum value of 32. |
| Level Seed | level-seed | N/A | Controls the seed your server will use when generating a new world. | Any value is acceptable and no value will cause your server to use a random seed. |
| Allow Flying | allow-flight | Disabled | Controls whether or not players are permitted to fly using exploits or mods. | Enabled or Disabled |
| Game Mode | gamemode | 0 | Controls the default game mode for the server. | Acceptable values are Survival, Creative, Adventure, or Spectator (1.8+). |
| Difficulty | difficulty | 1 | Controls the difficulty level for the server. | Acceptable values are Peaceful, Easy, Normal, or Hard |
| Server Message | motd | A Minecraft Server | Controls the message displayed below the server name in the Minecraft client. | Any string under 60 characters is acceptable. Color and formatting codes, as well as special characters, may be used. |
| Rcon Port | rcon.port | A random five-digit number | Controls the port needed to access your console using RCON. | Acceptable values are any five-digit number not used by another server on your server’s node. |
| Enable Command Block | enable-command-block | true | Controls whether command blocks can be used. | True or False |
| Max Tick Time | max-tick-time | 60000 | Controls the amount of time (in milliseconds) that a tick is allowed to take before the server crashes. | Value must be an integer. (-1 to disable) |
| Enforce Secure Profile | enforce-secure-profile | true | Controls whether players using third-party launchers are prevented from connecting to your server. | true or false |
| Generate Structures | generate-structures | true | Controls whether naturally-generated structures, such as villages, can spawn in new chunks on your server’s world. | true or false |
| Require Resource Pack | require-resource-pack | false | Controls if players who deny a server resource pack will be disconnected from the server. | true or false |
| Broadcast Rcon to Ops | broadcast-rcon-to-ops | true | Controls whether operators will see executed commands via RCON of other operators in chat. | trur or false |
| Resource Pack Prompt | resource-pack-prompt | N/A | Sets a custom resource pack prompt if a server resource pack is defined and require-resource-pack is set to true. | Any message is allowed |
| Enable Rcon | enable-rcon | false | Controls if RCON is enabled for the server, which allows operators to use the console remotely. | true or false |
| Hide Online Players | hide-online-players | false | Controls if the number of players online can be seen from the Minecraft launcher server list. | true or false |
| Resource Pack | resource-pack | N/A | Sets the server’s resource pack, making it easier for players to download the server’s resource pack, or make it mandatory. | Acceptable values are download links configured to be downloadable by the server. |
| Simulation Distance | simulation-distance | 10 | Controls the number of chunks in each direction from each player in which entities will remain loaded. | It has a minimum value of 3 and a maximum value of 32 |
| Rcon Password | rcon.password | N/A | Sets a password for RCON to use your server’s console remotely. | Password can be anything you want |
| Player Idle Timeout | player-idle-timeout | 0 | Controls if and when players will be kicked from the server if they are idle. If the value is an integer other than 0, players will be kicked when they are idle for that number of minutes. | any interger |
| Force Gamemode | force-gamemode | false | Controls whether or not players should be in the same gamemode as the server every time they join the server. By default, players stay in the same gamemode they had before logging out of the server. | true or false |
| Hardcore | hardcore | false | Controls whether or not hardcode mode is enabled. When enabled, players are set to spectator mode after they die. | true or false |
| rBoadcast Console To Ops | broadcast-console-to-ops | true | Controls whether operators will see executed commands of other operators in chat. | true or false |
| Spawn Npcs | spawn-npcs | true | Controls whether or not villagers spawn. | true or false |
| Previews Chat | previews-chat | true | Controls whether players can preview their messages with how they will actually look in chat before sending them, particularly regarding styling. | true or false |
| Enforce Whitelist | enforce-whitelist | false | Controls whether or not the whitelist is enforced with regard to online players when the whitelist is reloaded. Any player not on the whitelist will be kicked from the server if set to true. | Enabled or false |