How To Fix Rubberbanding on a Minecraft Server

Important!

In many cases, rubberbanding is caused by the user’s connection issues and not by server stability problems.

Note:

Rubberbanding is a synchronization problem between the game client and server that causes players to be teleported backward when trying to move forward.

In this article, we will explain how to configure your server to fix rubberbanding.

1. Log In to Your Panel

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2. Install Paper/Spigot on Your Server

These Bukkit forks are specifically designed to reduce hardware load while offering greater control over performance settings.

If you don’t know how to install Paper on your Minecraft server, you can view our How to Host a Paper Minecraft Server article.

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3. Select the ‘Files’ Tab

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4. Select the ‘spigot.yml’ File

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4.1. Reduce the ‘Entity Tracking Range‘ Values

This setting improves server performance by putting distant entities into a ‘sleep’ state when no players are nearby. 

Make sure to copy exactly these reference values into your spigot.yml file:

Then, save the changes and return to the ‘Files’ Tab.

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5. Select the ‘server.properties’ File

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5.1. Set the View Distance to 8 or 6

Reducing the view-distance drastically decreases the load on the CPU and RAM, as fewer active chunks mean fewer entities, blocks, and structures being processed:

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5.2. Set the Max-Tick-Time to -1

Disabling the max-tick-time allows the server to automatically recover from lag spikes without forced restarts:

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5.3. Set the Network-Compression-Threshold to 256

Setting the network-compression-threshold to 256 prevents CPU overload from excessive compression while maintaining efficient network usage:

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6. Configure the Amount of RAM Your Server Needs

You can use our Minecraft RAM Calculator Tool to determine how much RAM your server needs based on player count, number of mods, or specific modpack requirements.

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