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How to Install Farsight on a Minecraft Fabric Server

Let players see further than the server's view distance with Farsight on Fabric.

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Farsight lets players keep chunks loaded beyond the server's view distance on their own side, so distant terrain stays visible.

Install it

Farsight is mainly a client mod.

  1. Players: install Farsight (and Fabric API) in their launcher, for the server's Minecraft version.
  2. Server (optional): install Farsight from Package Manager (Browse packages, search Farsight, Install) if your version's Farsight needs to be on both sides. Package changes are queued and applied the next time the server starts, so restart it from Console when you're done.

The server's view distance

Farsight doesn't make the server send more. The server's view-distance in server.properties still decides how far it loads and sends. Raising it costs memory and CPU, so increase it a step at a time.

Tip

On Fabric, Distant Horizons is another way to see far terrain, rendering simplified far chunks on the client.

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