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 Limiting the amount of consecutive neighbor updates before skipping additional ones. Moderately reducing this value has no game impact and helps alleviate various 'neighbor update lag machines'.
 
 `server.properties`
-```yaml
+```properties
 max-chained-neighbor-updates=10000
 ```