Last Updated: Feb 5, 2026

While this is not a technical server by any means, the settings below will help technical players build their contraptions around the limitation. If you are a technical player that relies on vanilla behavior, this is not the server for you.

Additionally, do not rely on these settings being the way they are. They will change. This server prioritizes the building and the community aspect. Settings will change to aid in reducing lag, change mechanics, or even purely for the sake of implementing artificial restrictions.

The information below focuses on the technical limitations of the server. These settings will define the “physics” of the world. If your build or farm do not respect these settings or restrictions, it will likely break and fail to function entirely.

World Settings

View Distance: 8 Chunks

• This is the radius of chunks around the player that the player can “see”.

Simulation Distance: 4 Chunks

• This is the radius of chunks around the player that “stuff will happen” in. For example, furnaces smelting items, piston moving, mobs aging, etc. Entities (mobs) will only move/interact and blocks (crops, redstone) will only function in this radius. Anything outside of this distance is effectively “frozen” in time, even if you can see it.

Mob Spawn Range: 3 Chunks

• Mobs will only spawn within this radius of the player. If your farm’s spawning platforms are further away than this, nothing will even spawn.

Redstone Mechanics

If you are building precise item sorters, high-speed clock circuits, or anything that relies on strict vanilla redstone behavior, pay close attention here.

Redstone Engine: Alternate Current

• We use a non-vanilla redstone implementation. While it is much faster and reduces lag, it changes the update order of redstone dust.
• If you wish to read the brief overview, you can click here.
• If you wish to read indepth, you can click here.

Hopper Transfer Rate: 8 Ticks

• This is the “active cooldown”. It dictates the “speed limit” of an item moving through your system.
• Once a hopper successfully pushes or pulls an item, it goes on a “cooldown” for X ticks before it can move another one.

Hopper Check Rate: 8 Ticks

• This is the “idle cooldown”. It dictates how often a hopper “looks” for work when it currently has nothing to do.
• If a hopper is empty or “locked” by redstone, it won’t check for items again for X ticks.

Permanent Block Breaking: Enabled

• Bedrock breaking methods will work.

Piston Duplication: Enabled

• TNT, Carpet, and Rail duplication exploits are currently allowed.

Please check out Allowed Mods/Exploits as well.

Entity & Mob Logic

Despawn Ranges

• Soft Despawn: 32 Blocks

• Mobs may randomly vanish beyond this range.

• Hard Despawn: 48 Blocks

• Mobs instantly despawn beyond this range.

Note: On vanilla servers, the hard despawn is 128 blocks. On this server, your AFK spot must be within hard despawn range of your kill-room/collection point, or the mobs will disappear before they die.

Despawn Shape: Ellipsoid

• The depsawn “bubble” is a sphere/egg shape, not a cylinder.

Max Entity Collision: 2

• This is not entity cramming. This does not mean that entities start taking damage after this amount of entities are in one spot.
• This setting instructs the server to stop processing collisions after this value is reached. Specifically, the physics calculation of “pushing” and “bumping” of entities.

Armor Stand Ticking: Disabled

• Armor stands do not process gravity or movements. Do not use them for moving contraptions.

• This setting will most likely never change as doing so will break all armor stand decoration creations on the server.

Activation & Visibility

Entity Activation Range:

• Monsters: 24 Blocks
• Animals: 16 Blocks
• Raiders: 48 Blocks
• Villagers: 16 Blocks

Entities outside of these ranges will stop moving or move at a significantly reduced rate. Their AI might also be slowed down.

FAQ

Q. Why isn’t my farm working when I stand 5 chunks away?

A. Our simulation distance is set to 4 chunks. If you are further than 4 chunks (64 blocks) away, the chunks are still “loaded” (visible), but they are not ticking. Redstone, crop growth, and mob AI effectively freeze in time beyond this 4 chunk radius.

Q. What is the ideal AFK spot for my mob farm?

A. You must be within 48 blocks of your kill chamber/spawning floors. If a mob wanders or is pushed further than 48 blocks from you, it instantly despawns. Also keep in mind that the shape of these 48 blocks isn’t a cylinder, it’s an ellipsoid (a 3D sphere/egg).

Q. Why did my hopper clock/1-tick pulse miss a cycle?

A. Our hopper check rate is 8 ticks. While hoppers transfer items at an 8-tick speed, they only “look” for new items or redstone changes every 8 ticks (hopper check rate). High-speed pulses that occur during the 8-tick “sleep” window will be ignored.

Q. Why are my armor stands “frozen”?

A. To save CPU along with not breaking existing decorations players made out of armor stands, armor stand ticking is disabled. They will not fall due to gravity and cannot be moved by water/pistons once placed.