It's the ideal place to add any rules or comments you wish to make about the server.

Motd: This sets a message that all players will see on their Minecraft server browser before they connect.

Level-seed: Allows you to insert a Minecraft seed for a world to generate from if you wish.

You may wish to tweak this as you go along, decreasing the number if you have less RAM dedicated to your server.

Max-players: This number sets how many people can join your server at any one time.

PVP: If you want players to be able to attack each other, enable this setting.

Difficulty: Self-explanatory but your options are either peaceful, easy, normal, or hard.

Allow-nether: This allows or disallows the use of Nether on your server.It can be changed to 0 if you want them all to be broken. Spawn-protection: This defines the radius of blocks in the server spawn that can't be broken.Gamemode: The game mode setting allows you to change between either survival or creative modes.Most are fairly self-explanatory but it’s useful to know how to make quick differences easily. Check the server.properties file for your options. Now you've got the basics sorted for your Minecraft server, you'll want to configure it. Run your server by double-clicking the bat file. Save the file and close it, before clicking the name of the file to rename the extension to.Add pause on a line after this so that the command window is kept open so you can spot any errors. By doing so, you're setting the minimum/maximum amount of memory for the file, and using nogui stops the graphical user interface from opening which saves resources. On the document, type ' java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar' Minecraft server name nogui where Minecraft server name is the name of the file.Right-click the file and click edit to open a Notepad window. Name the file something you'll remember like Startup or Start. Right-click on the inside of your Minecraft server folder then hover over New and click Text Document.Here's what you need to do to create the batch/bat file:

It's always possible to launch the Minecraft server by following the steps above but in the long term, a better solution is to create a batch file to have it launch in a more efficient way.

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