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Recommended Minecraft Server Hygiene

Here's a rundown of smart steps and tools to keep your server smooth, fast, and secure...

World Pre-Generation

To avoid chunk lag and hitching when players explore, it’s highly recommended to pre-generate your world before going live. However, keep an eye on your disk usage! Pre-generating will utilize storage.

Top Plugins:

  • Chunky – Actively maintained, works great on Paper and forks. Supports preloading Nether/End as well.

  • CoreProtect / Prism – Logs every action made on the server. Essential for anti-grief servers.  

Forge/Fabric Mods:

  • Chunk-Pregenerator (for Forge) – One of the most popular mods for automated and safe pregens.

  • Chunky for Fabric – A Fabric port of Chunky; clean, efficient, and easy to use.

Whitelist Early, Public Later

When you’re still testing or building, turn on a whitelist. Keeps unwanted players out and prevents early issues. Once you're confident the server is ready, flip it public.

More Pro Tips

  • Limit Plugins at Launch – Don’t dump 50 plugins in on day one. Start clean, test performance, and grow from there.

  • Use Paper or a Fork (like Purpur, Pufferfish, etc) – For better performance and more control.

  • Enable Timings or use Spark – Helps monitor performance issues if things start to lag.

  • Backups Matter – Schedule them. Test them. Don’t learn the hard way.

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