Lag for bedrock players (mostly mobile users)

[MarkHarrisMedia]

Describe the bug

Hello, I have a very established cross play server called Alpha MC.

I've noticed its always bedrock players that might happen to complain about lag, if any.

I've turned out view and simulation distance way down for now until something else fixes the problem.

I noticed player heads create alot of lag for bedrock so i've told our players to remove them from their houses in excess.

We are running 1.21 Fabric JAVA server with the newest version of geyser and floodgate.

To Reproduce

Play ALPHA Minecraft on Bedrock or Java:

Bedrock login
IP: 172.240.47.153
Port: 25543

Java Login
172.240.47.153:25584

Expected behaviour

need to fix the lag for bedrock players, java players have not experienced lag at all

Screenshots / Videos

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Server Version and Plugins

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Geyser Dump

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Geyser Version

2.4.2-b673

Minecraft: Bedrock Edition Device/Version

All Bedrock Players Experience Lag

Additional Context

Only Bedrock Players Experiencing Lag. JAVA players report that it is working perfect.

[MarkHarrisMedia]

For more info from the players of our community, visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/alphaminecraft

[ChrisTVH]

In my network also my bedrock users report the same thing, even though I have all my instances together in a dedicated and a good location.

[Camotoy]

I noticed player heads create alot of lag for bedrock so i've told our players to remove them from their houses in excess.

There are config options for these:

# The maximum number of custom skulls to be displayed per player. Increasing this may decrease performance on weaker devices.
# Setting this to -1 will cause all custom skulls to be displayed regardless of distance or number.
max-visible-custom-skulls: 128

# The radius in blocks around the player in which custom skulls are displayed.
custom-skull-render-distance: 32

[ChrisTVH]

I noticed player heads create alot of lag for bedrock so i've told our players to remove them from their houses in excess.

There are config options for these:

# The maximum number of custom skulls to be displayed per player. Increasing this may decrease performance on weaker devices.
# Setting this to -1 will cause all custom skulls to be displayed regardless of distance or number.
max-visible-custom-skulls: 128

# The radius in blocks around the player in which custom skulls are displayed.
custom-skull-render-distance: 32

It's more about the connection than the performance of the game.
You may need to compress your connection further.

[Quoats]

If you haven't you could also try pre generating your chunks or at least some like around spawn or high trafic areas, this isn't directly related but it could help performance a little if u haven't alr done.

[MarkHarrisMedia]

In an attempt to reduce lag for everyone, I have pre generated way more chunks with chunky than I originally intended. The server is now taking over 100gb in storage space. I did setup SQL database for bluemap to reduce storage/data load on the server as well... the downside is that backups take forever to process and download now :(

I will look into adjusting the config to reduce visible player heads, thanks for that tip!

[onebeastchris]

Maybe worth trying the build found here: #4924 (found under the checks tab) - that might help. Please also provide a geyser dump by running geyser dump in the server console, and send the link you get here.