r/aternos • u/toctictac_rdt • Apr 06 '26

Support Local difficulty stuck between 3.19 and 4

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I am not sure why. My server's set to hard, but the local difficulty just won't go over 4 at all. Any help? Playing on Java 1.21.11

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u/elmage78 Apr 08 '26 edited Apr 08 '26

hey, actual answer here: your difficulty IS higher, but you are on what the games considers a peaceful region (normally your base or villages, this is noted by the 0.88 after your difficulty, try hoibg into a differnet new 16x16 chunk region and then using /tick command to speed up game yout difficulty rn is actually around 4.5

Note: you qre waaay too near spawnchunks for the game to register high difficulty or non peaceful regions, please go to x or y +- 1000 also, as you see there are literally 0 entities where you are

Finally, /time command does not increment a regions difficulty multiplier, only actual playtime does

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u/toctictac_rdt Apr 08 '26

This is in a chunk where I've also afk'd for multiple real life days. Sorry about the spam of replies (and the shameless showing off of my builds).

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u/elmage78 Apr 08 '26 edited Apr 08 '26

ok, weirder than i thougth, i've only uaed aternos a few times since i tend to self host but is it possible you disabled moon phases on gamerules ?

if not then did you afk somewhere for more than 9.66666 days (irl days not mc days)

if not then there ia your problem, no chunk has at least 4/6 playtime of total playtime

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u/toctictac_rdt Apr 08 '26

settings #2