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Change Minecraft Server Difficulty

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Change Minecraft Server Difficulty

In this guide, we will show you how to change the difficulty of your Minecraft server.

For a comprehensive write up on the differences in difficulty levels, see this wiki.

Access Panel

  • Login to the panel. See Access the Panel for instructions.
  • Go to the 1 Servers tab.
  • 2 Then, go into your server.
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Navigate to Files

  • Go into the 1 Files tab
  • Locate and open the 2 server.properties file.
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Edit Config File

  • 1 Now hit ctrl+f, type difficulty and press ENTER.
  • Scroll down to the 2 difficulty line and edit it accordingly.
    • Peaceful: difficulty=peaceful
    • Easy: difficulty=easy
    • Normal: difficulty=normal
    • Hard: difficulty=hard
  • Finally, click 3 Save Content to save your changes to the file.
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Change Difficulty via Console

  • Go into the 1 Console tab.
  • 2 In the console, input one of the following commands:
    • difficulty hard
    • difficulty easy
    • difficulty peaceful
    • difficulty normal
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Restart the Server

  • Restart your server to make sure all changes can apply correctly.
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If you require further assistance, you can open a support ticket here.

Feedback and suggestions can be submitted here or further discussed on our Discord server.

  • Change Minecraft Server Difficulty
  • Access Panel
  • Navigate to Files
  • Edit Config File
  • Change Difficulty via Console
  • Restart the Server
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