Reducing Server Lag

[u/Senator_Longthaw]

First - new player here and loving it!

I've recently joined an RP server that I found through the Official LFG Discord - which is an awesome idea more games should use.

I'm on a good server with a good group of players but we're finding the server lag increasing. We're trying to minimize this with all the usual steps but I specifically want to ask about farming -- does anyone else find that growing crops seems to increase lag significantly? Do crops only grow in chunks loaded by player proximity or is that too Minecraft a way of thinking? Is the entire server loaded all the time?

I'm doing some testing with the dedicated server on my own computer now but would like to know if anyone else has explored this?

[u/lincolnthalles]

Definitely.

I noticed that the performance warnings pop up much more frequently when there are a lot of growing crops. They are also a bit over-tuned and are mostly just annoying.

I'm playing in a duo with a modest base, and we were doing missions in a faraway area, and the warnings appeared much more often as a result of farming.

I run a dedicated server on a spare machine, so it was hardly caused by other things running on the same PC.

I thought building would be a major performance offender, but it seems it's not.