How to Change the Spawn Protection on a Minecraft Server

Learn how to adjust the spawn protection settings on your Minecraft server hosted with Beacon Hosting to better control player permissions and server security.

June 4, 2025
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How to Change the Spawn Protection on a Minecraft Server

Spawn protection prevents players from breaking or placing blocks in a radius around the world’s spawn point. By default, Minecraft enables this to protect the spawn area, especially on public servers. You can adjust or disable this setting to suit your server’s needs.

Steps to Change Spawn Protection

  1. Log in to your Beacon Hosting control panel.
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  2. Navigate to your Minecraft server’s file manager.

  3. Locate and open the server.properties file (found in the root directory).

  4. Find the line:


spawn-protection=16

The number represents the radius (in blocks) around the spawn where players cannot modify the world.

  1. Change the value to your desired radius:
  • 0 disables spawn protection entirely.
  • Higher values expand the protected area.

  1. Save the file.

  2. Restart your Minecraft server from the control panel to apply the changes.

[WARNING] Disabling spawn protection (0) allows all players to build at spawn. This is not recommended for public servers unless other protections (e.g., plugins) are in place.

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