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.
We only charge you for the memory and CPU that your server consumes. The default server selects a maximum players of 20, but you can quickly change this.
The default gamemode for Minecraft is survival. Players joining your server will receive this gamemode until changed by a server admin or a plugin on your server. This setting might be overriden by custom plugins.
