When shopping for a Minecraft server, you’re often presented with servers traditionally meant for one thing: hosting websites. By now, you’re used to running a java heavy server application that eats ram like candy. Your hosting company may not be used to these types of applications and may need specific instructions and custom built servers.…
A chunk in Minecraft is an area in the world that consists of 16×16 blocks, and are 256 blocks high, totaling 65,536 blocks. Chunks are generated randomly as players venture into the world, making the world even bigger. There is a maximum of fourteen trillion chunks per Minecraft world.
If you wish to restrict Minecraft access to whitelisted members, follow the instructions below to enable a whitelist. Login to your server and edit your server.properties file. Find the line that says white-list. Change false to true. Save the file. Simply restart your Minecraft server. Now users that aren’t on the white list may not access your server. You’ll notice that…
There’re two methods to restarting your world in Minecraft. Method #1 – Delete World File To restart your entire Minecraft map without preserving your old world, login to your server via SSH and stop Minecraft. When Minecraft has been stopped, look for your world folder, this should be called world, unless you’ve named it something else. You…
This guide assumes you’ve already purchased a VPS / dedicated server, and know how to access SSH with a SSH client such as PuTTY. This guide only goes through basic Minecraft installation. It’s also assumed that you have not installed Java or other necessary software. Copy and paste the following lines in SSH after logging…