Zero Lagg: Your Guide to Optimize your Server

Lags are the biggest enemy of any Minecraft community. Whether you're starting a small project with friends or a large public server, performance determines how much fun you have playing. In this guide, we'll show you how to get the most out of your hardware.

1. Choose the right server software

Forget “vanilla” if you want performance. Use optimized forks:

PaperMC: The gold standard for stability.
Purpur: Offers even more customization options and performance tweaks.

2. The most important config optimizations

You can work wonders in your spigot.yml and paper-world-defaults.yml:

View Distance: Reduce it to 6 or 8. This takes a lot of strain off the CPU.
Entity Cramming: Limit the number of animals and monsters in a small space.
Simulation Distance: Separate the viewing distance from the calculation distance (tick distance).

3. Plugins help

Spark: An absolute must when it comes to monitoring lag, performance, and hardware in order to identify potential problems.
Chunky: Before all players go in different directions at the start of SMP and the CPU goes down on its knees due to all the new chunks, you should pre-generate a certain radius from the spawn.
FarmControl: Too many farms can quickly kill the TPS of the server. Reduce unnecessary collisions and movement when there are too many farms.
VillagerOptimizer: In case you didn't know, villagers can also quickly contribute to lag if there are many trading halls or breeders get out of control.

However, too many plugins can also cause lag!

Try to use as few plugins as possible. If possible, look for the most powerful ones that were developed with performance in mind.

4. Why hardware is crucial

Software can only do as much as the hardware allows. At Mado Hosting, we rely on:

High-frequency CPUs with 5.7GHz: Minecraft is largely single-core dependent. High clock speeds are more important than many cores.
NVMe SSDs: Lightning-fast loading of chunks without stuttering.

Conclusion

With just a few simple steps, your server will run more smoothly than ever before. Thanks to our custom panel, Mado Hosting gives you full access to all files so you can make these optimizations in seconds.