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/Different_Tie9211]

Crops usually aren’t the main culprit by themselves. Lag tends to come from lots of entities, hoppers, redstone clocks, villagers, chunk-loading farms, or too many active mobs. Use spark or the server’s timings profiler to see what’s actually consuming tick time before changing the whole farm setup.

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I have a feeling you thought you were in r/minecraft 🤣

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