/SLASHPLAY
How to set the difficulty on a Minecraft server
Set difficulty=hard in server.properties and restart the server. It accepts peaceful, easy, normal or hard.
difficulty
Sets the world difficulty: peaceful, easy, normal or hard.
difficulty=<level> Examples
difficulty=normal Standard survival difficulty.
difficulty=hard Hard mode for experienced players.
Values
| Value | What it does |
|---|---|
| peaceful | No hostile mobs, health regenerates |
| easyDefault | Less mob damage |
| normal | Standard |
| hard | More mob damage, starvation can kill |
Arguments
levelRequiredpeaceful,easy,normalorhard.
What it does
Difficulty controls mob damage, hunger damage and which mobs spawn. Peaceful removes hostile mobs entirely. You can also change it live with /difficulty hard, but the value in server.properties is what the server uses on the next start.
Good to know
- Changes take effect after a server restart.
- Use
/difficultyto change it without a restart.
Run it on your server
On a SLASHPLAY server, type it in the Console tab without the leading slash; in game, operators type it in chat with the slash. New to this? Start a Minecraft server first.
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