How to reduce lag on your survival server (Addition to Reassembly)

[SkripterMan]

Hey everyone! You may have noticed survival servers have the largest amount of lag. This is caused by chunk generation, many chunks loaded and high amount of entities. There are many other reasons your server could be lagging although these 3 reasons combined cause the most amount of lag on your server. First of all, read @Reassembly's post here to understand what causes these things and make sure you follow his tips first. 

Once you follow his tips, you can do more! The following tips are meant for survival servers. There are configuration files that you can find by going into your Minehut dashboard from there you can select the server and then click on 'File manager'. There are multiple "YML" files in here that you can edit. "YML" files are configuration files used to change how your server works. The three files that we are going to be focusing on are "paper.yml", "spigot.yml" and "bukkit.yml".

When editing, locate the option that you are trying to edit and change the value (True or false / Integer) to the value that is stated.
We are going to begin with the easiest one of all, bukkit.yml:
 

  monsters: 40
  animals: 8
  water-animals: 3
  water-ambient: 2
  ambient: 1

chunk-gc:
  period-in-ticks: 400

ticks-per:
  monster-spawns: 4

The next options are found in the "spigot.yml" configuration:

 

    entity-activation-range:
      water: 16
      villagers: 32
      flying-monsters: 32
      villagers-work-immunity-after: 100
      villagers-work-immunity-for: 20
      villagers-active-for-panic: true
      animals: 16
      monsters: 24
      misc: 8

    merge-radius:
      item: 4
      exp: 6

    nerf-spawner-mobs: true

    mob-spawn-range: 6

    arrow-despawn-rate: 300

    item-despawn-rate: 4000

      tick-inactive-villagers: false

Alrighty, now that we have finished the rather short ones we are going to begin working on the biggest YML file of all, "paper.yml":

 

    max-auto-save-chunks-per-tick: 8

    optimize-explosions: true

    mob-spawner-tick-rate: 2

      disable-chest-cat-detection: true

    container-update-tick-rate: 3

    max-entity-collisions: 2

    grass-spread-tick-rate: 4

    non-player-arrow-despawn-rate: 180
    creative-arrow-despawn-rate: 60

    despawn-ranges:
      soft: 28
      hard: 96

    hopper:
      cooldown-when-full: true
      disable-move-event: true

    prevent-moving-into-unloaded-chunks: true

    use-faster-eigencraft-redstone: true

    armor-stands-tick: false

    per-player-mob-spawns: true

# The following option is suggested to prevent xrayers but does not help with lag.

    anti-xray:
      enabled: true

All of these options were found here -> https://shockbyte.com/billing/knowledgebase/21/Reducing-Lag

Some of the options were edited to my liking, you can read up on each option. Now that I have show you all of the edited values, here are all the config downloads. Thank you Shockbyte for helping us reduce lag! If this helped you please leave a like


EDIT:
If you do not feel comfortable downloading these files you can view them in the following pastebins:

PAPER:
https://pastebin.com/Y5uxknt2

SPIGOT:
https://pastebin.com/bSirAgkm

BUKKIT:
https://pastebin.com/1jJDCDDW 

paper (1).yml spigot (1).yml bukkit (1).yml

Edited August 18, 2021 by SkripterMan

[SkripterMan]

Bump, I feel like this could be a very large help for users on Minehut.

Edited August 21, 2021 by SkripterMan

[SkripterMan]

Bump because more new users should see this.

[ServerCrashing]

Install an anticheat, that'll make it a lot tougher if not impossible to crash your server by loading tons of chunks, although if your survival server has /dupe, you can still get cucked by pretty much any lag machine. This guide cannot protect a dupe server from minecart/armor stand based lag machines, it can allow the server to last longer, but these machines have like 50 shulkers wired up into a dispenser, so eventually the entity count will rise high enough to overwhelm the server, just disable spawn eggs, armor stands and minecarts.

[SkripterMan]

Bump, more Minehut users should be using this guide.

[SkripterMan]

Bump

[SkripterMan]

Bump

[AgentGamerPro]

9 hours ago, SkripterMan said:

Bump

lmao

[TheCodingDuck_]

On 8/18/2021 at 12:02 PM, SkripterMan said:

Hey everyone! You may have noticed survival servers have the largest amount of lag.

No they don't, garbage gen servers do lol

[SkripterMan]

bumpum