Setting up MineCraft Server in Ubuntu
To setup MineCraft server on Ubuntu, first you need to install Java.
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apt install openjdk-8-jre -y |
Create a user to run minecraft
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useradd -m --shell /bin/bash minecraft |
You can set a password if you want direct SSH login to this user or login as root, then “su – minecraft”.
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passwd minecraft |
Login as user minecraft with SSH or “su”.
Download minecraft server .jar file from
https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/
At the time of writing, i downloaded
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wget https://launcher.mojang.com/v1/objects/3dc3d84a581f14691199cf6831b71ed1296a9fdf/server.jar |
Don’t use above link as it can get older, always go to minecraft site and get new link, so you get latest minecraft server jar file.
You can start minecraft server with command
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java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar server.jar nogui |
First time when you run, it exit with some error related to EULA.
You need to edit file
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vi eula.txt |
Set
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eula=true |
Now minecraft will run. You can create a run.sh file with following command for starting minecrat easily.
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vi ~/start.sh |
Paste following content
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#!/bin/bash java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar server.jar nogui |
To make the file executable, chmod it 755
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chmod 755 ~/start.sh |
When you start minecraft from terminal/ssh, it get closed when you disconnect. To keep minecraft server running after you disconnect, use tmux or screen.