Minecraft settings & admin guides
Config files, whitelists, operators and admin commands, explained setting by setting.
All 31 settings & admin guides
Change game rules on your Minecraft server
Run the Minecraft gamerule command in the Console, with a table of the old and new rule names after the 1.21.11 rename and the settings that moved into rules.
Change Minecraft mob spawn rates and limits
Edit the Minecraft spawn limits in bukkit.yml and spigot.yml on Paper, or switch natural spawning off with the right game rule for your version.
Change the Minecraft sleeping percentage
Set how many players must sleep to skip the night in Minecraft with the players_sleeping_percentage game rule, using the right name for your version.
Change your Minecraft server's spawn point
Move the world spawn with setworldspawn from the Console or in game, then set spawn protection and the respawn radius to suit your Minecraft server.
Create a flat or superflat Minecraft world
Make a Minecraft superflat world with the Config Editor, or set your own layers in server.properties, using a new world folder so the old one stays safe.
Disable chat reporting on a Minecraft server
Set enforce-secure-profile in server.properties and install FreedomChat on Minecraft Paper or No Chat Reports on Fabric, Forge or NeoForge.
Disable the Minecraft Nether or The End
Turn off the Nether in Minecraft with a game rule on 1.21.9 and newer or allow-nether on older versions, and turn off The End with bukkit.yml on Paper.
Edit Minecraft bukkit.yml, spigot.yml and Paper config
Find Paper's config files for Minecraft, edit them safely in the File Manager and learn which settings live in bukkit.yml, spigot.yml and the Paper files.
Enable and get Minecraft command blocks
Command blocks moved from a server.properties switch to a game rule in Minecraft 1.21.9. Turn them on for your version, then give yourself one from the Console.
How to get rid of water in Minecraft
Clear water in Minecraft with a bucket, placed blocks, a sponge or the fill command, and stop drained pools refilling with a game rule.
Make a hardcore Minecraft server
Create a fresh Minecraft world with Hardcore on in the Config Editor, see what changes on death, and bring a dead player back with a console command.
Make custom Minecraft weapons with commands
Give named, enchanted Minecraft weapons with the give command, change their damage with attribute modifiers and package them in a datapack function.
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- Set up a Folia Minecraft server
- Stop TNT and creeper damage in your Minecraft world
- Stop X-ray cheating on your Minecraft server
- Summon a Minecraft mob with no AI using commands
- Summon custom Minecraft entities with /summon
- TNT duping on Paper: how to enable or block it
- Turn off Minecraft advancement messages
- Turn off PvP on your Minecraft server
- Turn on experimental features on a Minecraft server