This plugin makes the maximum view distance of each player highly customisable.

The customisability of the plugin can make it a little confusing, so please refer to the documentation and flow diagrams and join the Discord if you need help!

Features

• Per-player control: Each player has their own max view distance, which can be set and saved individually by them or by another player (if they have the permissions to do so).
• Global control: Easily set the max view distance of all online players.
• Saves data persistently: Automatically restores player view distances when they connect to the server, even across restarts.
• LuckPerms integration: Max view distances can be set for groups or individual players via Luckperms (LuckPerms is not required).
• AFK view restriction: AFK players can have their views restricted until they next move to improve server performance. This can be completely customised or disabled in the config.
• Highly configurable: Control most features and messages in the plugin (default configs at the bottom of this page!)
• Bedrock support: Full bedrock support and bedrock players can have custom default values.
• Very lightweight: The plugin does not use much CPU or RAM at all and can even greatly improve performance as the server may have to send less chunk data to players!)
• Update checker: As of v2.0.0, an update checker is built-in.
• Multi-language support: All messages are customisable and you can even add your own language by creating a file in the 'lang' folder and referencing that file in config.yml. If you wish, you could make a pull request with any more languages so the plugin can ship with them in the future. The plugin currently ships with English, Russian and Chinese.
• PlaceHolderAPI support: Placeholders are now built in to see if players are AFK and to see a player's current max view distance.

AFK System

• If a player goes AFK, after a certain amount of time, their view distance will be restricted to stop AFK players making the server lag.
• Restriction distance and the time it takes to consider a player AFK are customisable.
• There is a bypass permission to stop your view distance being restricted when AFK.
• Spectator mode players can bypass AFK by default
• All of the above is customisable in config.yml.

Base Command: /pvdc

• Aliases: vd, viewdistance

Subcommands

- set

• Usage: /pvdc set <chunks> [player]
• Sets the maximum view distance of yourself or another online player

- setonline

• Usage: /pvdc setonline <chunks>
• Sets the maximum view distance of all online players

- get

• Usage: /pvdc get [player]
• Get your own max view distance or the max view distance of another player

- reset

• Usage: /pvdc reset [player]
• Resets a player's max view distance to the max (or the max allowed by LuckPerms permissions if installed!)

- reload

• Usage: /pvdc reload
• Reloads config.yml (restart server to apply changes to custom messages and the AFK system!)

- help

• Usage: /pvdc help
• Displays the plugin help message

Permissions

• Set your own max view distance: pvdc.set-self
• Set the max view distance of other players: pvdc.set-others
• Permission-based max view distance via LuckPerms: pvdc.maxdistance.<chunks>
• Global view distance: pvdc.setonline
• Reload plugin config: pvdc.reload
• Get the max view distance of another player: pvdc.get-others
• Get your own max view distance: pvdc.get-self
• Reset your max view distance to the max (or the max allowed by LuckPerms permissions if installed!): pvdc.reset-self
• Reset a player's max view distance to the max (or the max allowed by LuckPerms permissions if installed!): pvdc.reset-others
• Bypass any maxdistance permissions assigned to you: pvdc.bypass-maxdistance
• Bypass afk checks: pvdc.bypass-afk

• All permissions are granted to ops by default
• pvdc.get-self is granted to all players by default

How max view distance is calculated

Default Configs

config.yml

language: en_US
colour: "§e§l(!) §e"
error-colour: "§c§l(!) §c"
success-colour: "§a§l(!) §a"

# Default view distance for anyone who joins the server (Must be between 2 and 32)
default-distance: 32
bedrock-default-distance: 32

# Maximum view distance for anyone (Cannot exceed 32)
max-distance: 32

# Minimum view distance for anyone (Cannot be less than 2)
min-distance: 2

# Display a message when a player joins telling them what their view distance is set to
display-msg-on-join: true

# Display a message when a player joins telling them what their view distance is set to, when it is the default or maximum
display-max-join-msg: false

# If chunks loaded will be limited for AFK players
afk-chunk-limiter: true

# After how many seconds the plugin will consider a player AFK
afkTime: 20

# The view distance of an AFK player
afkChunks: 2

# Whether players in spectator mode bypass AFK checks
spectators-can-afk: true

update-checker-enabled: true

en_US.yml

messages:
  join: "Your maximum view distance is currently set to {chunks} chunks"

  player-offline: "That player is not online!"
  no-permission: "You do not have permission to execute this command!"

  # The message displayed when there are not enough arguments or the arguments are invalid
  incorrect-args: "Incorrect arguments - Use /pvdc help for help"

  afk: "You're AFK, so your view distance has been restricted to {chunks} chunks!"
  afk-return: "Your view distance has returned to normal!"

  chunks-too-high: "You can only set your view distance to a value less than or equal to {chunks} chunks!"

  self-view-distance-change: "You changed your maximum view distance to {chunks} chunks"

  # The message displayed for the command sender when they change someone else's maximum view distance
  sender-view-distance-change: "{target-player}'s maximum view distance was changed to {chunks} chunks"

  # The message displayed for a player when their maximum view distance has been changed
  target-view-distance-change: "Your maximum view distance has been changed to {chunks} chunks"

  reset: "You reset {target-player}'s saved view distance!"
  self-reset: "You reset your saved view distance!"

  reload-config: "The PVDC config files have been successfully reloaded"

  all-online-change: "The maximum view distance of all online players has been set to {chunks} chunks"

  view-distance-get: "{target-player}'s maximum view distance is currently set to {chunks} chunks"
  self-view-distance-get: "Your maximum view distance is currently set to {chunks} chunks"


commands:
  get: "Displays a player's max view distance"
  help: "Displays the plugin's help message"
  reload: "Reload the plugin's config.yml"
  reset: "Resets a player's max view distance"
  set: "Set your own max view distance or the max view distance of another player"
  setonline: "Sets the max view distance of all online players"