Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-27784966-20160224023349/@comment-25533095-20160225220821

SamwiseFilmore wrote: True, but if everyone did? From my experience with LAN worlds, which granted; may be quite different than with regular servers, is that both players drasically reducing their render's have a huge effect on the speed of horses and etc.

 SamwiseFilmore (Admin) (Fill My Mailbox) That's probably just because the host player lowers it. And yes, a render distance can be set on servers, and the server player has no effect on it. If the server render distance is 6, player may set theirs to 8, and it would still only display 6 chunks. If the player sets it to 4, it would display 4 chunks, but the server would still load 6 chunks regardless of the player's setting.