StoneBlock Server Hosting

`level-type=voidworld` in server.properties, set before the world is generated. That is the pack's own instruction. With the wrong world type you get an ordinary Minecraft world instead of the enclosed stone the pack is designed around, and the quest book stops making sense. Since the world type is fixed at generation, correcting it later means deleting the world and starting again.

We set 8 GB for a group of around six. The author asks for at least 5 to 6 GB and says directly that this is not a lightweight pack, so 8 GB gives real headroom as your base fills with machines. Because it runs on Java 8, adding much beyond that rarely helps, and the usual culprit for slowdowns is mobs or machinery rather than memory.

No. This is the original StoneBlock by Sunekaer on Minecraft 1.12.2, the pack that started the idea. FTB later built their own StoneBlock series on newer Minecraft versions with their own quests and progression. They share the premise of starting enclosed in stone but are separate packs. Pick this one for the original on a settled, finished version.

Check the lighting before anything else. In a stone world, every tunnel and cavity your group digs and leaves dark is valid mob spawn space, so a large excavated base can build up a population that a surface base never would. Light the mining corridors and dead ends properly. After that, look at machine density, which is the other thing that grows over a server's life.

Not meaningfully. There is no expanse of surface terrain for players to walk into, so the usual pregeneration advice does not apply here and the pack ships no tool for it. Players tunnel rather than travel. Your performance work is inside the base instead: lighting, mob accumulation and how much machinery is packed into a compact space.

For a group that wants the original idea, yes. It has been finished since 2020, so nothing changes under a long-running world and the 1.12.2 mod era it draws on is thoroughly documented. What you give up is modern Minecraft and any newer mods. If you would rather have current content with the same premise, the FTB StoneBlock packs are the newer route.