How to Enable Hardcore Mode on a Minecraft Server

Hardcore mode in Minecraft offers a challenging experience where players have only one life and the difficulty is locked to hard. Activating Hardcore mode on your server can provide a thrilling gameplay atmosphere for you and your community. This guide will walk you through enabling Hardcore mode on your Minecraft server hosted with Beacon Hosting.

Step 1: Access Your Server

Log in to Beacon Hosting and open Your Servers. Select the Minecraft server you want to modify.

Your Servers

Step 2: Open server.properties

In the server sidebar, go to Files and open server.properties. This file controls server settings, including Hardcore mode. The Visual Editor opens by default.

Step 3: Enable Hardcore Mode

In the Visual Editor, expand Commonly used or search for hardcore. Turn hardcore to Enabled. In the Raw Editor, the same setting is hardcore=true.

The panel describes Hardcore as: players are banned on death.

Step 4: Save and Restart Your Server

Save your changes in server.properties, then restart the server from Console.

[INFO] Note: Enabling Hardcore mode locks the difficulty to hard and players are banned on death. Make sure your players are aware before enabling this mode.