Configuring Velocity

Velocity is designed to be easy to configure and set up. Every Velocity file is stored in velocity.toml, located in the directory where you started the proxy. Velocity uses the TOML file format, as it is easy to understand and avoids pitfalls of YAML and other configuration formats common in the community.

An up-to-date version of the default configuration can be found on GitHub.

Data types

There are a few "special" data types in the Velocity configuration.

Chat

Chat messages may be provided in MiniMessage format.

RGB support is available for Minecraft 1.16 and later versions.

Address

An address is a pairing of an IP address or hostname, and a port, separated by a colon (:). For instance, 127.0.0.1:25577 and server01.example.com:25565 are valid addresses.

Root section

These settings mostly cover the basic, most essential settings of the proxy.

Setting Name	Type	Description
config-version	String	This is the current config version used by Velocity. You should not alter this setting.
bind	Address	This tells the proxy to accept connections on a specific IP. By default, Velocity will listen for connections on all IP addresses on the computer on port 25565.
motd	Chat	This allows you to change the message shown to players when they add your server to their server list. You can use MiniMessage format.
show-max-players	Integer	This allows you to customize the number of "maximum" players in the player's server list. Note that Velocity doesn't have a maximum number of players it supports.
online-mode	Boolean	Should we authenticate players with Mojang? By default, this is on.
force-key-authentication	Boolean	Should the proxy enforce the new public key security standard? By default, this is on.
player-info-forwarding-mode	Enum	See Configuring player information forwarding for more information.
prevent-client-proxy-connections	Boolean	If client's ISP/AS sent from this proxy is different from the one from Mojang's authentication server, the player is kicked. This disallows some VPN and proxy connections but is a weak form of protection.
forwarding-secret-file	String	The name of the file in which the forwarding secret is stored. This secret is used to ensure that player info forwarded by Velocity comes from your proxy and not from someone pretending to run Velocity. See the "Player info forwarding" section for more info.
announce-forge	Boolean	This setting determines whether Velocity should present itself as a Forge/FML-compatible server. By default, this is disabled.
kick-existing-players	Boolean	Allows restoring the Vanilla behavior of kicking users on the proxy if they try to reconnect (e.g. lost internet connection briefly).
ping-passthrough	String	Allows forwarding nothing (the default), the MODS (for Forge), the DESCRIPTION, or everything (ALL) from the try list (or forced host server connection order).
enable-player-address-logging	Boolean	If disabled (default is true), player IP addresses will be replaced by <ip address withheld> in logs.

servers section

Setting Name	Type	Description
A server name	Address	This makes the proxy aware of a server that it can connect to.
try	Array	This specifies what servers Velocity should try to connect to upon player login and when a player is kicked from a server.

forced-hosts section

Setting Name	Type	Description
A host name	Hostname	This configures the proxy to create a forced host for the specified hostname. An array of servers to try for the specified hostname is the value.

advanced section

Setting name	Type	Description
compression-threshold	Integer	This is the minimum size (in bytes) that a packet must be before the proxy compresses it. Minecraft uses 256 bytes by default.
compression-level	Integer	This setting indicates what zlib compression level the proxy should use to compress packets. The default value uses the default zlib level.
login-ratelimit	Integer	This setting determines the minimum amount of time (in milliseconds) that must pass before a connection from the same IP address will be accepted by the proxy. A value of 0 disables the rate limit.
connection-timeout	Integer	This setting determines how long the proxy will wait to connect to a server before timing out.
read-timeout	Integer	This setting determines how long the proxy will wait to receive data from the server before timing out.
haproxy-protocol	Boolean	This setting determines whether or not Velocity should receive HAProxy PROXY messages. If you don't use HAProxy, leave this setting off.
tcp-fast-open	Boolean	This setting allows you to enable TCP Fast Open support in Velocity. Your proxy must run on Linux kernel >=4.14 for this setting to apply.
bungee-plugin-message-channel	Boolean	This setting allows you to enable or disable support for the BungeeCord plugin messaging channel.
show-ping-requests	Boolean	This setting allows you to log ping requests sent by clients to the proxy.
announce-proxy-commands	Boolean	This setting allows you to enable or disable explicitly sending proxy commands to the client (for Minecraft 1.13+ tab completion).
failover-on-unexpected-server-disconnect	Boolean	This setting allows you to determine if the proxy should failover or disconnect the user in the event of an unclean disconnect.
log-command-executions	Boolean	Determines whether or not the proxy should log all commands run by the user.
log-player-connections	Boolean	Enables logging of player connections when connecting to the proxy, switching servers and disconnecting from the proxy.
accepts-transfers	Boolean	Determines whether or not the proxy accepts incoming transfers from other servers. If disabled, the proxy will disconnect transferred clients.

query section

Setting name	Type	Description
enabled	Boolean	Whether or not Velocity should reply to Minecraft query protocol requests. You can usually leave this false.
port	Number	Specifies which port that Velocity should listen on for GameSpy 4 (Minecraft query protocol) requests.
map	String	Specifies the map name to be shown to clients.
show-plugins	Boolean	Whether or not Velocity plugins are included in the query responses.