I need help, my sky factory 4 server will not generate aa sky factory world, just a regular Minecraft world

[grossilli0915-code]

I downloaded sky factory 4, did all the proper things of getting the server up and running but every time loaded a server, it would generate a regular Minecraft world instead of sky factory. I wouldn't spawn with an achievement book at all. I would delete the world folder in my files and replace it with a world from single player; I would delete the folder entirely and reinstall. I came down to the conclusion that even when trying to run a server, I would go into the server folder and where you change it to generate settings, ex. its originally "generator-settings={"Topography-Preset":"Sky Factory 4"} " in the file and so I change it to "generator-settings={"Topography-Preset":"Sky Factory 4"}" then I would save thew file and then as I run the server, it ends up changing back to "generator-settings={"Topography-Preset":"Sky Factory 4"}" even after changing and deleting multiple times. I am at a loss and don't know what to do.

Did this behavior use to work in the previous version?
I haven did not try it yet., I am currently in the process of downloading sky factory 5

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@grossilli0915-code: hello! 👋

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[sam-kirby]

No need to open a duplicate, please respond to me on your last issue.

[grossilli0915-code]

The issue is my generating settings won't generate a sky factory world even after changing it in the file.

[sam-kirby]

As I said on your last issue, the \ character makes no difference. Your issue lies elsewhere, so please attach your server log so I can try to work out where.

[grossilli0915-code]

where can I find that I am new to this

[sam-kirby]

There should be a folder called logs created when you run the server for the first time. Inside that folder, there will be a file called latest.log. You can just click and drag that to upload it here.

[grossilli0915-code]

2026-03-11-1.log.gz
latest.log

[sam-kirby]

You've started a vanilla minecraft server; no mods are loaded and so the custom world generator will not work.

If you don't know what you're doing it is best to use the provided server start script to launch the game. If this doesn't work, the most likely cause is that your default version of Java is too modern. This version of Minecraft Forge only supports Java 8, and so you may need to modify the start script to point to that version.

To do this, right click ServerStart.bat and choose "Edit". When it opens make the following changes:

1. Change java to an absolute path to Java 8, for example: "C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_482\bin\java.exe". Note that the "s are required if the path contains spaces. This path may be different on your system, but provided it doesn't contain (x86) you should be fine.
2. Remove -server argument as recent releases of Oracle's JRE do not include the server VM.

The end result should look something like:

@echo off

call settings.bat

:start_server
echo Starting Sky Factory 4 Server...
"C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_482\bin\java.exe" -Xms%MIN_RAM% -Xmx%MAX_RAM% %JAVA_PARAMETERS% -jar %SERVER_JAR% nogui
exit /B

goto start_server

If you don't have Java 8 installed already, you can get it here: https://adoptium.net/en-GB/temurin/releases?version=8&os=windows&arch=x64&mode=filter

[grossilli0915-code]

I just did it and it still didn't work; this is happening with other games too. I put back in the log just in case if you needed it cause I ran the server again.

2026-03-11-1.log.gz
latest.log

[sam-kirby]

This is still a vanilla minecraft log

[grossilli0915-code]

ok I did everything you told me to do and that what happened

[sam-kirby]

Please describe to me how you're launching the server.

[grossilli0915-code]

I double click what's in the first picture below and then join my server from sky factory and it's the same thing. I went into the files and change to exactly what you told me