Which means nobody comes running into frame on my zoom meeting with an urgent problem.īut … the story didn’t end there. -restart always: If the server process crashes, it’ll restart itself.-e EULA=TRUE: Set an environment variable called EULA to TRUE, which means yep, Microsoft, I accept your license agreement.-name mc: name the container mc so it can be managed, like docker restart mc.-v /home/jbarratt/data/minecraft:/data: attach a directory called minecraft in my home directory into /data on the container.-p 25565:25565: patch through the normal minecraft port on the host into the minecraft port on the container.

-d: run the command in the background (detached).

Let’s unpack the docker command a bit more to see what it actually does: So, it’s really easy to be up and running! I just had to forward a port through our gateway, and my son and his friends were happily both mining AND crafting, with literally one command line entered. A massive thanks to him and the contributors to that family of open source projects, it’s been a lifesaver. Geoff also has created some other tooling I’m using, like docker-mc-backup, that we’ll get into as well. It supports not just vanilla Minecraft, but a dizzying array of other ways you can run it, with different server implementations, mod types, and more. I’d found itzg/minecraft-server, a really complete and excellent wrapper for Minecraft by Geoff Bourne. … it worked! Minecraft server was up and running on our home machine, a silent and bulletproof Intel NUC which has been my utility server for years. I just ran this docker command in the terminal and … $ docker run -d -p 25565:25565 -v /home/jbarratt/data/minecraft:/data -name mc -e EULA=TRUE -restart always itzg/minecraft-server Getting StartedĮldest Child: Hey Dad, can you set me up a vanilla Minecraft server for my friends and I? In this post I’ll break down how I’m running them with docker, which has made it incredibly easy to roll with their ongoing requests. Especially with a pandemic going on – and in our case, moving away from friends during 2020 – they have really loved being able to use Minecraft servers as shared playgrounds.

My kids, like so many others their age, have been fans of Minecraft for years. Minecraft Server in Docker: Adulting Made Easy

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