Optimal settings and some questions regarding "server.properties"

But also 8GB of RAM and 2vCores will never be enough to max either of the distances

doubling view distance is 4xing the RAM requirement to load those chunks

8GB is never going to be enough

and likewise with the server tick load by increasing the sim distance.

vCores are not great for intensive Minecraft stuff like ultra high view distance. you'd rather real cores.

That's a cool mod, thanks for sharing.

I have dedicated vCores, not shared

dedicated and "vCore" are oxymorons

I currently tried to switch simulation and view distance to 16 and it seems to work fine for now, but let's see what is going to happen later on.

vCore means "managed by the hypervisor" and even if assigned 1 vCore to 1 logical core, you still have the hypervisor doing an additional layer of scheduling.

granted, 1:1 vcores is better than the alternative lmfao

but still

Wish I went with dedicated server from the start :P

What CPU and how much ram is required to max view distance (2 players)?

lmao CPU load is ~150% with maxing view distance, but server is still not crashing

damn looking good

Ticking chunks is on the main tick loop of the game, which means it is affected by singlethreaded performance of the CPU. As such, you want the most modern, highest end CPU you can get that doesn't focus on extreme numbers of cores. For Minecraft, that is currently the Ryzen 9 9950X. You'd want ideally 4 cores of one of those, but 3 would probably do.

For loading max view distance (4225 chunks per player), you will want probably 12GB of memory or so.

I would also suggest using this mod https://modrinth.com/mod/bobby as it caches chunk data locally once it has been loaded. This allows you to have a maxed view distance on your CLIENT without having a maxed view distance on your SERVER.

PS: Simulation distance really does not need to be above like 10

there's not really any advantage

Nice, I can get enough ram, but CPU another story I guess

Gotcha, reduced it back to 10

CPU is required for Simulation Distance, which is really quite pointless. No one will notice it.

RAM is required for loading all of that world data into memory.

12GB is an approximate.

It's what I use for my max view distance server.

But I also use bobby and that variable distance mod too.

So

I will setup bobby as well

Thanks a lot for the knowledge

np bud

no server can really handle 32 without buffering for a while

or straight up crashing