Changing Minecraft entity rendering distance
I've noticed that, on some various servers I play on, entities are not rendered even if I am a short distance away, like ~40 blocks. Other servers I play on seem to be capable of rendering entities at enormous distances. I don't believe it's a server performance thing, as some of the more higher-performance networks I've been on, like Hypixel, have this short render distance as well.
Is there a way to edit this distance? It'd improve various aspects of my gameplay.
possibly related: yesterday, when setting up a small Spigot server on my computer, I noticed "view-distance" (or a similar name) in the server.properties file. Is this the entity render distance? It most likely isn't the regular render distance, because that's easily changeable on clientside from player to player.
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On spigot, it's depending on the entity-tracing-range in spigot.yml, but if you're using OptiFine, the it could be multiplied by a number depending on your settings.
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What is the entity render distance in Minecraft?
Entities would only render in a certain meter radius. This can scale from whatever it already is (which I assume is around 400ish meters, or whatever your render distance is.), or it could drop all the way down to a 50-meter radius. If this doesn't work, then you can have entity render distances work in chunks![FIX] Not seeing Entities from Far Distances LUNAR CLIENT
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