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title: How to Change the Spawn Protection on A Minecraft Server
description: Learn how to adjust your Minecraft spawn protection to control how much of the spawn area is safe from building and player interaction.
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updated: "2026-04-27T02:17:38.757Z"
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# How to Change the Spawn Protection on A Minecraft Server

Learn how to adjust your Minecraft spawn protection to control how much of the spawn area is safe from building and player interaction.

Changing the spawn protection on your Minecraft server is a quick way to control how close players can build, break, or interact around your world’s spawn point. Whether you want to give new players a safer starting area or open spawn up for more freedom, adjusting this setting lets you decide how protected that space should be. In this guide, we’ll show you how to change the spawn protection on your Minecraft server.

**Note: Be sure that your Minecraft server is fully stopped before making any configuration changes or setting updates!**

## Using the Control Panel

1. Navigate to your Nodecraft Dashboard.
2. Click the **Panel **button for your Minecraft server.
3. Locate and click **Game Settings** in the menu on the left side.
4. Click on the **Worlds **tab, under Minecraft Server Settings.
5. Change the **Spawn Protection Radius** to your desired size. By default, this is set to 16, which covers a 33x33 square around the world spawn.
6. Click the **Submit** button at the bottom of the page to save your changes.
7. **Start **your server.

## Manually Editing the server.properties File

1. Navigate to your Nodecraft Dashboard.
2. Click the **Panel **button for your Minecraft server.
3. Locate and click **Server Files** in the menu on the left side.
4. In the file browser, click on the **server.properties** file.
5. Click **Edit **at the top.
6. Scroll down and locate the spawn-protection option.
7. Change the option after the = to the desired setting.
8. Click the **Save **button at the top of the editor to save your changes.
9. **Start **your server.