There are many properties you may change when running a dedicated Minecraft Java Edition server.
Minecraft Difficulty for Java Edition
This setting defines the difficulty of the server. It affects damage dealt by mobs and the way hunger and poison affects players. If a legacy difficulty number is specified, it is silently converted to a difficulty name.
Here is the default value of the difficulty setting
difficulty=easy
Available Minecraft difficulty settings
- peaceful (0)
- easy (1)
- normal (2)
- hard (3)
Using a saved Minecraft world on your Java Edition server
The "level-name" value is used as the world name and its folder name. The player may also copy their saved game folder here, and change the name to the same as that folder's to load it instead.
- Characters such as ' (apostrophe) may need to be escaped by adding a backslash before them.
- Here is the default of the level-name setting
-
level-name=world
Default server.properties file created by Minecraft Java Edition
#Minecraft server properties #(last boot timestamp) spawn-protection=16 max-tick-time=60000 query.port=25565 generator-settings= sync-chunk-writes=true force-gamemode=false allow-nether=true enforce-whitelist=false gamemode=survival broadcast-console-to-ops=true enable-query=false player-idle-timeout=0 text-filtering-config= difficulty=easy broadcast-rcon-to-ops=true spawn-monsters=true op-permission-level=4 pvp=true entity-broadcast-range-percentage=100 snooper-enabled=true level-type=default enable-status=true resource-pack-prompt= hardcore=false enable-command-block=false network-compression-threshold=256 max-players=20 max-world-size=29999984 resource-pack-sha1= function-permission-level=2 rcon.port=25575 server-port=25565 server-ip= spawn-npcs=true require-resource-pack=false allow-flight=false level-name=world view-distance=10 resource-pack= spawn-animals=true white-list=false rcon.password= generate-structures=true online-mode=true level-seed= prevent-proxy-connections=false use-native-transport=true enable-jmx-monitoring=false motd=A Minecraft Server rate-limit=0 enable-rcon=false
Minecraft Chat and MOTD Color Codes
Chat color codes |
MOTD color codes |
Color name/description |
§4 |
\u00A74 |
"dark_red" |
§c |
\u00A7c |
"red" |
§6 |
\u00A76 |
"gold" |
§e |
\u00A7e |
"yellow" |
§2 |
\u00A72 |
"dark_green" |
§a |
\u00A7a |
"green" |
§b |
\u00A7b |
"aqua" |
§3 |
\u00A73 |
"dark_aqua" |
§1 |
\u00A71 |
"dark_blue" |
§9 |
\u00A79 |
"blue" |
§d |
\u00A7d |
"light_purple" |
§5 |
\u00A75 |
"dark_purple" |
§f |
\u00A7f |
"white" |
§7 |
\u00A77 |
"gray" |
§8 |
\u00A78 |
"dark_gray" |
§0 |
\u00A70 |
"black" |
§r |
\u00A7r |
"reset" Reset color to default
|
§l |
\u00A7l |
Bold
|
§o |
\u00A7o |
Italic
|
§n |
\u00A7n |
Underline
|
§m |
\u00A7m |
Strike
|
§k |
\u00A7k |
!{oiLuXV{j random scrolling symbols
|
Additional Minecraft Server Java Edition Resources
You can find more information on server properties at the GamePedia Minecraft Wiki.
Minecraft chat and motd color formatting codes at GamePedia Minecraft Wiki