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# How to Change the View Distance on a Minecraft Server

The server's view distance determines how far players can see around them while playing. Increasing this value allows players to see more of the world at once, but it also requires the server to load and transmit more chunks for each player.

If your server is experiencing high resource usage, reducing the view distance can help decrease the amount of work required to generate and send chunks.

Minecraft uses a default view distance of **10 chunks**. You can change this setting through your server's `server.properties` file.

## Changing the View Distance

1. Sign in to the game panel at `gamepanel.fourseasonshosting.com`.
2. Stop your Minecraft server from the **Console** page.
3. Navigate to **Files** and locate `server.properties` in the main server directory.
4. Open the file and locate the `view-distance` setting.
5. Replace the existing value with the number of chunks you would like players to be able to see.
6. Save the changes.
7. Start your server again.

Once the server has finished starting, the updated view distance will be applied.