World Border & Difficulty Tools

Plan your world's playable area with ready /worldborder commands, and compare difficulty/gamemode settings.

World border commands match vanilla Java Edition syntax exactly. Difficulty/game-mode behavior table reflects standard vanilla rules — some servers use plugins/datapacks to modify these.

Quick guides

How to use this tool, and the questions players ask most.

/worldborder has ten forms, and only two of them animateset and add take an optional time argument that shrinks the border gradually; the other eight are instan

What is the default

world border size in Minecraft Java?

The default world border size in Java Edition is 59999968 blocks wide, centered at coordinates X: 0, Z: 0. This boundary spans from -29999984 to +29999984 on both horizontal axes, preventing players from traversing beyond the standard playable terrain.

How to set a

world border in Minecraft Bedrock?

Minecraft Bedrock Edition lacks the /worldborder command and relies on border blocks or invisible barriers at X/Z ±30000000. To restrict players on Bedrock, you must place border_block items in Creative mode with Education features enabled or use custom behavior packs.

How to set and center a

world border in Minecraft?

Set the center using /worldborder center and define the diameter with /worldborder set . For example, running /worldborder center 100 -200 followed by /worldborder set 500 creates a 500-block square zone centered at those specific coordinates.

How to reset the

world border in Minecraft?

Reset the boundary to default vanilla specifications by running /worldborder set 59999968 followed by /worldborder center 0 0. This returns the diameter to its maximum functional limit of roughly 60000000 blocks and recenters the border at origin coordinates.

What happens past the

world border in Minecraft?

Players standing beyond the border take suffocation-style damage of 0.2 hearts per second per block distance by default, controlled by /worldborder damage amount. Additionally, block interactions, mob spawning, and standard entity physics are disabled outside the perimeter.