Minecraft servers have 4 levels of difficulty you can choose from Peaceful, Easy, Normal, and Hard.
Here’s a brief summary of each difficulty level and the differences between them:
- Peaceful: Hostile mobs can not spawn naturally, except for a select few that do not deal damage to a player. Hostile mobs that try to spawn are removed from the game instantly. When switching to this difficulty level from any other level, hostile mobs are despawned. Player health is also restored much more rapidly at this level.
- Easy: Hostile mobs will spawn at this level, but they’ll do less damage than they would at the Normal level. Player health will not decrease if they are starved.
- Normal: Everything is standard at this level. Hostile mobs deal the standard damage, players’ health will deplete to 1 heart when they are starving, and villagers have a 1 in 2 chance of becoming a zombie when they are killed by one.
- Hard: Hostile mobs cause more damage than they would at the Normal level, players can starve to death, and villagers will become zombies when they are killed by one. In addition, zombies can break through wooden doors and spawn more zombies when attacked by players.
You can adjust your server's difficulty based on what you prefer. Below are the ways to do this:
Using Commands
The recommended method to changing difficulty is by using commands, as this will update the world that your server is using.
Console Command
This can be done by using the Console section of your Multicraft control panel.
difficulty- View current server difficulty on your console.
difficulty <difficulty_level>- Change the difficulty of your server.
In-Game Chat Command
To do this in-game, you must be OP'ed.
/difficulty- View current server difficulty in-game.
/difficulty <difficulty_level>- Change the difficulty of your server.
Changing Difficulty with server.properties
You can set the difficulty of any newly generated worlds using server.properties. However, this will not apply to your current world.
- Access your control panel and Stop your server.
- Navigate to Files > Config Files.
- Click Server Settings.
- Locate the option Difficulty and select your preferred server difficulty from the drop-down menu.
- Save and Start your server.
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