How do I enable the whitelist on a Minecraft server?
A whitelist is a way of preventing people that you do not know from joining your Minecraft server - we highly recommend enabling the whitelist on any private servers.
A whitelist is a way of preventing people that you do not know from joining your Minecraft server - we highly recommend enabling the whitelist on any private servers.
In order to host a Minecraft server you must comply with the Mojang EULA, you can find it here. The aim of the EULA is to prevent servers from selling ranks, items or any other gameplay enhancements that would make the experience unfair for players.
In order to prevent too many chunks being loaded, Minecraft restricts the default view distance to 10. For many players this is too late, so we allow you to very quickly change the maximum view distance.
Minecraft servers will by default create a zone around the spawn point, this is to prevent greifers or accidentally exploding the spawn point into the nether. Inside this zone non-operators cannot place or destroy blocks.
In some cases you might want to disable authentication, this is used for certain plugins or to enable players which hacked clients to join. While we don't recommend this, we make it easy to change this behavior on your server.