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Set up a server and keep it running, with the config files and start options written for you.

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Server Config Generators

Generate JVM flags sized to your player count, a start script, eula.txt, plugin.yml and a Velocity or BungeeCord proxy config.

Server Setup Tools

Generate a server.properties file and design a colored server list MOTD.

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Aikar's flags change at 12 GB — five of them, and one goes down

Copying a 4 GB flag set onto a 16 GB server leaves five values wrong. Here is exactly which five, plus the player count where a modded server crosses the line and a vanilla one does not.

server.properties: the settings that change performance, and the ones that do nothing

view-distance and simulation-distance are not the same lever, and one of them is where your TPS goes. What each setting actually costs, with sensible values.