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How-to's & troubleshooting for your Minecraft server.
Improve Your Server Performance
This guide will show you a few steps that may improve your server performance. Decrease your TickSpeed You can decrease your TickSpeed by usi
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How To: Add an Icon to a Minecraft Server
If you want to set a custom icon for your server on the in-game server list, but don’t know how, you’re in the right place. The video tutorial will cover everything in this article. But, you can keep reading if you want. There are three main things we need to do: Create your icon. Upload your icon. Restart your server. Creating Your Icon: Grab the picture you want to use and hop over to: [http://www.
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Connection Timed Out - An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.
This article will help you on how you can fix closed by remote host issue.
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How To: Reset Your World
Creating a new world is an easy operation and we’ll show you how step by step! Before you begin, make sure the server is stopped. Log into your Multicraft. Stop your server. Click on "Create New" in your "Custom World" line. Choose Settings for Your World , please follow our article How to: OP Yourself on Your Minecraft Server(https://help.ggserver
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Understanding: Servers using mods and plugins at the same time
This article will explain the big question between mods and plugins running at the same time.
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Troubleshooting Minecraft Server Errors
This article will help you to understand server errors and how you can fix commum errors.
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Implement a custom resource pack/texture pack in your server
Do you want to upload and use costum textures in your server? When some player join and the game start to download the server texture? This guide will help you on how you can implement a custom resource pack or a custom texture pack in your server. In this guide we’ll use “MCPacks” for it. Uploading your Resource Pack Once you have
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Enable Command Blocks
This article will show you how to enable command blocks on your server. For this tutorial, you need to be an OP. If you don’t know how to add yourself as an OP, please follow our guide on How to: OP Yourself on Your Minecraft Server. Enabling Command Blocks in your server Command Blocks are disabled by default. You can enable them in your server settings: Stop your server Click on “FILES” Then go to
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How To: View and Change World Seed
This article will show you how to view and change your world's seed. What is a world seed? The world seed is a code that the game uses to generate the world. Each Minecraft version has different seeds, a seed you used in 1.13 won’t work in 1.14. How do I view my current seed? You can get your world seed by running the /seed command. For this command you’ll need to be an OP.
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Connection refused: no further information
First please, make sure that you are trying to connect to your server using the right server IP! Use IP : PORT (exemple: 192.0.0.1:26876) Checking if the problem is your server or your computer. First go to your Multicraft. You can access it clicking here: https://mc.ggservers.com Once you are login, open your server and see if it is stopped or it is running. If only the “Start” and “Restart” buttons are green, click on the green “Start” button and t
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Players can't break blocks
For some reason have you ever encountered a problem in the world that only players with OP can break blocks and build? Or even realized that for default players it is not possible to build only in a certain area of the world? Well, then this article is here to help you better understand what is happening and how we can solve this problem. 🤔 What is happening? Minecraft servers, by default, have a function present in the server.properties file that allows the server owner to defin
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Minecraft 1.14.x Changes & Performance Issues
As you may know, the awesome Minecraft 1.14.x update has been released! The Village & Pillage update brings new features to the game to enhance gameplay such as Pandas, Bamboo & Sweet Berries just to name a few! We all know that everyone wants to play this new version of the game with their friends, maybe even re-living some old memories and making loads of new ones, but we have some things for you to keep in mind when you start a Minecraft 1.14.x server. For some reason, the server software fo
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Change your server’s difficulty
Do you want to know how you can change your server difficulty? If yes, maybe you are trying to put it to hard or disable all aggressive mobs to keep it peaceful. Well, you can do this playing your game or thourgh your Multicraft console. Inside your game If you want to change it through the game, you need to have OP first. If you don’t know how to have OP, we have an Article about “How to: OP Yourself on Your Minecraft Server(https://kb.ggservers.com/knowledge-base/how-to-op-yoursel
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What is a Dedicated IP?
A dedicated IP is an IP address assigned to your server with a :25565 port. You can assign a dedicated IP address to only one server. 25565 Minecraft’s default port. It allows you to connect to the server without any extra numbers. For example, if your IP is 192.168.0.1 and the port is 25572, the only way to connect to this server is by entering the following:  in Server List
Have you ever seen this boring description of your server on the list and wondered how you could change it? Boring Description Don’t worry, you are not alone. We need to do three main things to make this happen: Edit your server file. Add color (if you want). Restart your server. Editing Your Server File The first thing you want to do is log in to to your server’s control panel at: [
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Dynmap Installation
Here is a tutorial to help you on how to install dynmap in your server. Download your wished Dynmap plugin version here. Upload the plugin to your “plugins” folder. We highly recommend you to upload the plugin through FileZilla. You can find more about FileZilla in our Article “Access Your Minecraft Server Files Via FTP“. Restart your server. Open c
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Minecraft Modpacks
What are Minecraft Modpacks? Modpacks are community created modifications to Minecraft that alter the gameplay and visual aspects. Typically a modpack contains several individual mods that work together to create a new experience. Examples of things modpacks can change/add: New types of items New types or armor and armor slots New mobs New types of blocks Different colors and textures Game mechanics/biomes/abilities/potions & much more! Mods/modpacks are not t
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How To: Use A Custom Domain (URL) With Your Server Using Namecheap
Setting Up a URL We want to setup a domain (URL) so our friends can connect to our server with just the URL, like mydomain.com without any of this 198.758.43.3:3532 nonsense. The first thing you need to do is go to your Namecheap domain list: https://ap.www.namecheap.com/domains/list/ Find the domain (URL) you want to use, and click “Manage”: “. You can also execute most of the commands below in your server console. Just remember that is not necessary to use slash “/”
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How To: Use A Custom Domain (URL) With Your Server Using Google Domains
The video has all of the information in this article. But, you can keep reading if you want. Setting Up a URL We want to setup a domain (URL) with Google Domains so our friends can connect to our server with just the URL, like mydomain.com. We want to ditch the 198.758.43.3:3532 nonsense. The first thing you need to do is go to the domain list: https://domains.google.com/m/registrar/  With Your Server Using Godaddy
Setting Up a URL We want to setup a domain (URL) with Godaddy so our friends can connect to our server with just the URL, like mydomain.com. We want to ditch the 198.758.43.3:3532 nonsense. The first step to do this is to go to the domain list: https://dcc.godaddy.com/domains/ Godaddy Domain List Click on the three dots next to your domain, then click
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How to install datapacks on your server
Installing datapacks on your server is a simple task! This article was made to help you on how you can do this.
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How To: Change Your Server's Level-Type
If you use a plugin or mod that uses a custom world-wide generator, you will most likely need to modify your default server level-type. If you want to generate a new custom world you’ll need to delete your current world. Login into your Multicraft Stop your server Go to FILES Click on "Config Files" Click on "Server Settings". ![](https://storage
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Change your server spawn point
This article will help you on how you can change your currently default server's spawn point. Use this aricle to help you on how you can get OP. How to: OP Yourself on Your Minecraft Server Join in your server Go to your wished spawn location/block Type: /setworldspawn Done! New players will spawn at your new spawn location!
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How to Advertise Your Minecraft Server
So you’ve just started a new server, modified it to your liking and are ready to host some additional players and build a community. The next step is to advertise your server in order to attract new players. As far as Minecraft servers go, the environment is very competitive when it comes to building a player-base. There are countless numbers of servers competing for new users and offering unique features to differentiate themselves. It is important that you offer a fun and unique experience to
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World Border
This article will help you on how you can configure you world border. For this tutorial, you need to have OP. If you don’t know how to get OP, please follow our article “How to: OP Yourself on Your Minecraft Server“. World Border Center The world border center means simply where is the center of your border. To set it, you just need to type minecraft world border command with center subcommand followed with of “x” and “z” coordinates. ![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/websi
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How To: Installing Bungeecord
Our servers fully support BungeeCord. This guide will tell you how to install BungeeCord and give you some tips and tricks for running a BungeeCord server. If you would like to have our technicians set up a BungeeCord server for you, please check out our BungeeCord Installation Addon on our Adding Addons page. Overview BungeeCord is a software that acts as a proxy between the player's client and the connected Minecraft servers. The players see no di
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How To: Configure BungeCord
This guide is designed to help you configure a BungeeCord server after you’ve installed it. If you haven’t installed it yet, please refer to our guide on How To Install BungeeCord before you continue reading. If you would like to have our technicians set up a BungeeCord server for you, please check out our BungeeCord Installation Addon on our Adding Addons page. config.yml groups Here, you can as
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Failed to verify username
This error is very common, and simple to fix. This happens sometimes, when the sessions of Minecraft are down, leading yourself have no access to any server. To fix it you need just to: Logout your Minecraft Account through your launcher. Login in your Minecraft Account through your launcher.
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Flying is not enabled on this server
Have you ever been kicked for the reason "Flying is not enabled on this server" or something related to it? Well, this article will help you on how you can changes your server settings to try to avoid this.
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Types of Lag
Lag?
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Unable to login: java.io.IOException with a 503 error
If you have received a java.io.IOException with a 503 error, this means the Minecraft session servers are down. Sometimes this is a glitch that can be fixed by: Closing your game. Logging-out of your launcher. Restarting the server. Restarting your launcher, logging back in to Mojang and trying to connect again. If this doesn't work, the session servers really are down, and you’ll be unable to join any server with online mode enabled. Most servers have online mode enab
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How To: Adding A Custom Domain (URL) With Cloudfare
Setting Up Cloudfare If you want to use Cloudfare DNS with your Minecraft server, the first thing you want to do is go to your Cloudflare DNS dashboard: https://dash.cloudflare.com/ Click on "Add a site". Add Site Type in your site name, then click, "Add site". You'll see this screen, click "Next": Querying Records(https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk
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Where to find Client-side Logs
Where can I find my Client-side Logs?
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