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How to Set Up a World Border in Minecraft

Managing your Server

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Jan 18, 2025

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Video Tutorial

A world border is a boundary or limit that surrounds an area of a Minecraft world that prevents players and other entities from moving beyond the border. Setting a world border is especially useful to limit the chunks being generated when players travel your world which sometimes causes lag or makes your world file's size get excessively large.

Players will take damage when outside of the border. While redstone builds and water or lava flow are unaffected, placing of blocks and liquids outside of the border may be limited if at all possible.

Please Note

The world border feature is available to Minecraft Java Edition only. For Bedrock Edition servers (NukkitX or PocketMine-MP), you will need plugins to configure your world border.

Setting Up a World Border

If you have OP permissions in-game, you can follow these steps using in-game commands as well. However, for the purpose of this tutorial, we will be using the server console only to set up our world border.

Step 1:

Open your server's control panel

Open your server's control panel
Step 2:

In the Console window, enter Worldborder center

Specify the center of your world border by using the command worldborder center <X> <Z>, replacing <X> and <Z> with your X and Z coordinates. It is recommended to set this on your world spawn or to 0, 0, the physical center of the world.

Type the worldborder center command and press enter to send it to the server
Step 3:

Enter the command Worldborder set

Once the center is set, you can now specify the size of the world border using the command worldborder set <size>. For example, entering worldborder set 20 will change the diameter or distance from one end of the border to the opposite end to 20 blocks.

Send the worldborder set command to set the worldborder to the specific diameter

Other World Border Configuration Commands

You can configure some additional world border details using more worldborder commands. You can learn more information about world border and the worldborder command on this wiki page.

  • worldborder get - Displays the current size of the world border.

  • worldborder set <size> <time> - Adjusts (increase or decrease) the world border to the given size within the provided time, in seconds. For example /worldborder set 20 5 will resize the current border size to 20 within 5 seconds.

  • worldborder damage amount <DamageAmount> - Sets the amount of damage a player receives every second they're outside the world border. For example /worldborder damage amount 1 will cause the player to take 1 damage per damage tick.

  • worldborder damage buffer <distance> - Sets <distance> as the number of blocks from the world border that a player starts to take damage. For example /worldborder damage buffer 5 will cause players to take damage when they're more than 5 blocks outside of the border.

  • worldborder warning distance <distance> - Sets <distance> as the number of blocks from the world border when a player sees a warning of the border's proximity. For example /worldborder warning distance 2 will cause the player to begin seeing the border warning when they are 2 blocks away.

  • worldborder warning time <time> - Sets <time> as the number of seconds when the player begins to see a warning of the border's proximity as it gets closer. For example /worldborder warning time 2 will wait 2 seconds before warning the player that they are within the border warning proximity.

That's it! You now know how to setup a world border for your server. Should you have any issues, please feel free to contact us.

Kobe Plane

Game Experience Engineer