Set Minecraft Difficulty

Sometimes you'd like to make the game easier or harder than it currently is. You do so by changing the difficulty. For more information about difficulty, see the Minecraft Wiki article.

The Temporary Way

This method will quickly change the difficulty on the server. However, this is not a permanent change and will revert to the difficulty set in the server's server.properties file.

1. Op a Player
2. Have the Op'ed player use the /difficulty command in game. Examples: /difficulty 1 or /difficulty easy

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Also in Console

You can use the difficulty command in the console without making someone an Op. Just make sure that you don't use the / at the front. Examples: difficulty 1 or difficulty easy

The Permanent Way

This method changes the server's difficulty in the server.properties file. On each restart, the difficulty will default to what is set in this file.

1. Login to Command Center.
2. From the server list, select the server for which you would like to enable command blocks by pressing it's Manage button.
3. Click Files.
4. Open server.properties.
5. Edit thedifficulty=easy (for newer versions of Minecraft) or difficulty=1 (for older versions of Minecraft) to whichever difficulty you'd like:

7. Save server.properties.
8. Restart your server