How to Change the View Distance on a Minecraft Server

Adjusting the view distance on your Minecraft server is a useful way to balance performance and player experience. Beacon Hosting makes it easy to update this setting directly from your control panel.

Steps to Change View Distance

1. Log in to your Beacon Hosting client area and navigate to your Minecraft server service.

2. Open the server control panel from your service dashboard.

3. Go to the File Manager or Config Editor and locate the server.properties file.

4. Find the line starting with view-distance= and change the number to your desired value.

   • For example: view-distance=8

   Recommended values range between 6 and 10. Lower values improve performance, while higher values increase chunk visibility at the cost of more server resources.

5. Save the file and restart your server to apply the changes.

TIP: You can also change the view distance using the visual settings interface in your Beacon Hosting panel without editing raw files.