Low entity renderdistance

[minari]

I was playing with my friends and we noticed that we could barely see each other. We counted that we could only see each other from 3 chunks or less, but our max render distance on the server  is 16 chunks. Does anyone know how to increase entity renderdistance or do we just have to deal with it?

[rosabel]

There should be a modifier for this in paper-world-defaults.yml in the config folder of your home directory.