Essentials Spawn works in a strange manner?

Something is going on with essentials spawn.

Whenever I set the spawn point with it, anything nearby doesnt work.

Like any nearby chest shops WILL NOT work for regular players but it does for ops. But when I moved the spawn point the shops suddenly started to work for regular players.

So whats causing this conflict and how do I fix it?

it also seems to effect land nearby the spawn point.
As regular players cant seem to destroy nearby blocks.

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

The spawn protection is causing it. You can change the radius in bukkit.yml.

 

in your server folder, if you open the the bukkit.yml, if you scroll down to the settings, you should see:

Code:

settings:
  allow-end: true
  warn-on-overload: true
  spawn-radius: 16

Simply change the spawn-radius: to 0

 

thanks!
Didnt even know there was a spawn protection radius!

 

Whoa, totally helped, I have a village and the first few houses were inaccessible. Thanks so much for helping me fix that! I gave you your 228th internet