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!

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      3 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·
        3 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·
        3 days ago

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