Guides
Change Gamemode, Difficulty, PvP and Hardcore on Your Minecraft Server
The main game rules for your world are in one place: Game options on the Settings page.
Change the game options
- Open your world and go to Settings → Game options.
- Pick Gamemode (Survival, Creative, Adventure, Spectator) and Difficulty (Peaceful, Easy, Normal, Hard).
- Tick or untick Hardcore, PvP on and Whitelist on, and set Max players.
- Click Save options. The server restarts and disconnects players.
Hardcore
Hardcore is survival with one life. Death puts the player in spectator mode, and difficulty is locked to Hard.
Max players
Each plan has a player limit, shown under Max players.
One player's gamemode
The Gamemode setting is the default for players. To change one player, make yourself an operator (how to OP), then use /gamemode creative Name in game, or gamemode creative Name in Console.
Want to try this on a real server? Campfire is free and runs Vanilla. Village adds plugins, Kingdom adds mods and modpacks.