The HendGrow Minecraft Experiment

The HendGrow Minecraft Experiment This is a quick tutorial on how to connect and play on our open Minecraft server. Keep in mind this is open Anarchy / Survival server. This means that anything goes in regards to playing on this server.

The Minecraft server will be available for the foreseeable future dependant on demand.

Minecraft: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/store/minecraft-java-edition

Build & run your own Minecraft server

We walk-through how to build your own Minecraft server & run it for under €10 a month. This video was inspired by one of our kids that required a Minecraft server to play on with friends.

We have hosted the following open Minecraft server should you want to test before building.

Note: The aim is to show you how to build a minecraft server. What we don’t cover in this setup is how to secure the server. Highly recommend that you always follow industry security & hardening standards.

Steps. PDF or follow below.

We walk-through how to build your own Minecraft server & run it for under €10 a month. This video was inspired by one of our kids that required a Minecraft server to play on with friends.

We have hosted the following open Minecraft server should you want to test before building. https://hendcraft.com/hcaws/

Note: The aim is to show you how to build a minecraft server. What we don’t cover in this setup is how to secure the server. Highly recommend that you always follow industry security & hardening standards.


–Start–


URL’s used

Hetzner Cloud – https://accounts.hetzner.com/login

Minecraft Server Download – https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/


–Steps–

  1. Navigate to https://accounts.hetzner.com/login and commision your selected ubuntu server.
  2. Open your ssh client and ssh to the server you just commissioned.

ssh root@your-server-ip

  1. Enter the password that was provided to you in the mail from Hetzner. It will prompt you to select a new password. input your password and again to confirm it.
  2. update your server instances software

apt-get update

apt-get upgrade

  1. Next install Java as Minecraft version we installing requires it. When prompted if you want to continue select yes.

apt-get install openjdk-14-jdk

  1. Validate the JDK install

java –version

  1. Create a directory for the Minecraft server to run.

cd /opt

mkdir minecraft

cd /opt/minecraft

  1. Download the “server.jar” from the minecraft.net site.

wget https://launcher.mojang.com/v1/objects/a412fd69db1f81db3f511c1463fd304675244077/server.jar

  1. Install screen. Screen provides the ability to run multiple shell sessions from a single ssh session. This will allow us to launch the minecraft server and detach from the session allowing the Minecraft server to continue to run.

apt-get install screen

  1. Launch the Minecraft server for the first time.

cd /opt/minecraft

java -Xmx2GB -Xms1G -jar server.jar -nogui

  1. You will be prompted to agree to the eula. Open the eula file with a file editor like vi or nano.

vi eula.txt. (Update the line “eula=false to eula=true“)

  1. Once the eula has been accepted. Launch the Minecraft server again. Once running you can disconnect from the screen session with Ctrl+a+d

cd /opt/minecraft

java -Xmx2GB -Xms1G -jar server.jar -nogui

  1. Launch your minecraft client. Select Play.
  2. Select Multiplayer
  3. Select Add Server
  4. Input the details of your server. Provide a name and enter your server public IP. The select done.
  5. Select the server entry you just added and click on “Join Server”

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