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Can you change the seed or view distance on the Minecraft server

Posted on March 2, 2022

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How To Create a Minecraft Server on Ubuntu 18.04

I was wondering if there was a way to be able to change the seed the server is set on



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Hi @MassiveTurquoiseMorel,

Yes, you can change the seed. All you need to do is change the level-seed= in your server.properties config file.

If there is no level-seed, you just need to add the line.

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