Hi! I want to selfhost a minecraft server for my kid and hjs friends. I havent played minecraft in quite a few years …

Where do I start to self host one?

I am already seflhosting lost of stuff from 'Arrs to Jellyfin and Immich and more, so I am not asking on how to do it technically, but where to look for and what to host for a proper Minecraft server!

Edit: choosed to setup this https://github.com/itzg/docker-minecraft-bedrock-server and so far, super smooth and easy peasy!

      • lka1988English
        66·
        2 days ago

        Maybe 5 years ago. Vanilla runs fine these days.

        • Dagamant@lemmy.worldEnglish
          111·
          2 days ago

          Not when compared to the third party servers. Not only do they run better but they give the option of using plugins or mods to further improve performance and enhance gameplay.

          • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            51·
            2 days ago

            It has been a long time since I ran MC servers, you could do all of that with self hosting though. I still remember around 2011 running a server at school with a PC we found in a skip. Glorious 750MB of RAM! It ran alright though for a room full of people.

            • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              Amazing scavenge! I’ve got a server for my partner and I, vanilla+. One mod we have pauses the entire server if nobody is online, it works fantastically and only RAM is held, minimal CPU usage. Vanilla server runs perfectly fine for my case.

      • lka1988English
        51·
        2 days ago

        I’ve had zero issues running vanilla in a basic VM.

      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        2 days ago

        With the current Minecraft monthly updates, paper is always behind on the latest features. There are also minor problems that paper introduces with its performance improvements.

        Years ago paper was critical for a good Minecraft experience, but a newer PC (newer than 6 years old) runs great on vanilla.

        • non_burglar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          2 days ago

          OK, I respect your opinion.

          I’m coming from a place of administering a server and I attest to this:

          • Minecraft players want their particular mods on their particular seed, they don’t see value in armadillos and whatever other nonsense MS is “releasing”.
          • most of my player base has moved on to Vintage Story because Minecraft itself is stagnating like counterstrike did. And now we have the same situation CS had, where there’s a huge base of mc players who are stuck on old versions because, let’s be honest, Minecraft is stale AF under microsoft.
          • just because modern hardware is better at running vanilla doesn’t mean paper won’t run even better.
        • josefo@leminal.spaceEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          I ran a server on a raspberry pi 3, paper was the only real option on that kind of hardware.

        • lka1988English
          5·
          2 days ago

          I run 7th gen Intel hardware for my server cluster. Minecraft VMs run totally fine.