How To Set Up a Minecraft Server on Linux

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How To Set Up a Minecraft Server on Linux

• Minecraft is popular sandbox indie game
  originally created by Swedish programmer Markus
  Notch Persson and later developed and published
  by Mojang.
• It is a game about breaking and placing blocks.
• At first, people built structures to protect
  against nocturnal monsters, but as the game grew
  players worked together to create wonderful,
  imaginative things.
• Setting up minecraft server on your Linux server
  is simple and straight forward task.
• The server hosting Minecraft should have at least
  2GB RAM memory, once we are logged in, we should
  make sure that our repositories are up to date
• sudo apt-get update

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How To Set Up a Minecraft Server on Linux

• Minecraft server requires java installed on the
  server. In order to check if we already have in
  installed, we will execute the following command
• java version
• If Java is installed, we will get message with
  information about current Java version. If we
  dont have Java, we will get error, like Command
  not found or similar. If we need to install
  Java, we need to execute the following command
• sudo apt-get install default-jdk
• We also need to install screen on our server. We
  will be using it later in order to start the
  minecraft server. It will keep the connection up
  and running even after closing the console. To
  install screen, we execute the following command
• sudo apt-get install screen

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How To Set Up a Minecraft Server on Linux

• After we have installed all prerequisites, it is
  time to install Minecraft server. We start with
  creating directory that we are going to use to
  keep the Minecraft files
• mkdir Minecraft cd Minecraft wget -O
  minecraft_server.jar https//s3.amazonaws.com/Min
  ecraft.Download/versions/1.7.4/minecraft_server.1.
  7.4.jar
• Once it is downloaded, we need to run it. We will
  run it inside screen, so it will keep running in
  background all the time. To create the screen and
  then start the Minecraft server we need to
  execute
• screen -S "Minecraft server java -Xmx1024M
  -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui
• We will get some output and status progress as
  well as message that it is done. We can easily
  exit the screen and re-attach to it any time.
• To exit the screen, hit CTRLA at the same time
  and then click on your d key afterwards.

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How To Set Up a Minecraft Server on Linux

• To re-attach to the screen, we list all screens
  first and then re-attach to the one with the
  specific ID
• screen ls screen r ltscreen_idgt
• You can edit the main configuration file which
  will be located in /minecraft/server.properties a
  nd change all the settings from there. Youre now
  all set and the Minecraft server is installed.
  Invite all your friend to play and have fun!