Build a Minecraft Server with Docker Compose

Taking a base Ubuntu server and installing docker, docker compose, and starting a minecraft server all from scratch.
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[@gavinearls2935]

I really like how you go through things simply and easy to understand, would love a short follow up with opening up this server to make it accessible for e.g your discord friends

[@reillyodonnell4276]

Your router is given a public IP address by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) to connect you to the internet. By default your router is secure and doesn't let random things connect to your devices. So even if someone gets your router's IP address they can't access your devices. Obvi in MC we need to allow your friends to connect to your computer running the server. To allow outside connections computers have these things called ports (there are 65535 of these for every computer) & by default they are closed! So we need to do 2 things: 1. Decide which port we want our friends to use when accessing our public IP on our router (let's use the default MC port 25565) and 2. The port we want to open up on your computer running the Docker container/ MC server. To make it easy let's also use 25565. (note you will also need to specify which computer you want to this port to be open on. Be sure it's the one running the Docker container.) This is the basic idea of Port Forwarding. Now in plain English we are telling our router - when you get a connection to Port 25565 forward it to the computer running the MC server at the same port. Now your friends can connect!

[@McDinoh]

If I have been running Java Edition/LAN from my desktop, do I just copy the ./minecraft folder to the volume or is there another way to get our current game to the docker server?

[@ezalb9893]

nice tutorial! Just one question, how can i acces the minecraft console thath is running in docker?

[@JaredMcDonald-CS]

You can run "docker exec -it {container_name} /bin/bash" and from there I believe you would run `rcon-cli "command"`

[@sanvi4236]

would the process vary at all if i wanted to host multiple servers using this same image on the same box? (aside from different external port mappings)

[@jankjetil6455]

Hi Jared great video wish i found this one before i alredy run a minecraft server in docker without docker-compose is it posible to add compose.yml on a running container best regards Jan

[@fuzzycognition]

Amazing guide! Got it working. One last thing, can someone point me to commands like setting OP? I can’t figure it out.

[@fuzzycognition]

Answering my own question, I had to edit the ops.json file 😅

[@Stardust_Hero]

Hey, i just finish to set up everything for the server but even if i set up the ONLINE_MODE=FALSE it still doesn't work because it says: " Failed to verify username". Have any recommendation?

[@hispanicsanic5584]

great video! thank you :)

[@therealblujuice]

Unfortunately was a bit overwhelming for me for a simple machine to just run a minecraft server. Decided to use pufferpanel and worked straight away.

[@JaredMcDonald-CS]

Noted and appreciate the feedback. My content is usually heavily technical but I may need to adjust when making similar content. Glad you found a good solution for your usage!

[@zacurcordovamesina5056]

¿Cómo cambio a un jugar de modo supervivencia a modo creativo en la consola de linux? ¿Cuál sería la línea de código a escribir?

[@JaredMcDonald-CS]

Mi Espanol es no bueno. En minecraft tu usa RCON para configuracion "/gamemode creative" o tu usa docker-compose yaml "environment: MODE: creative"

[@Bardum22]

does anyone know how to change settings in this like the tics max players and all fun stuff

[@reillyodonnell4276]

2 steps: 1. docker ps (to find out the name of the container. In the vid his is user_mc_1) 2. docker exec -i mc rcon-cli (replace mc with the name of the container from step 1) Now you can do all the fun commands like "whitelist on" etc.

[@FL_Cordis]

Just need to know how to my friends can connect.

[@samhernandez2359]

If you want to allow others to join outside of your local network, you’ll either need to port forward which I wouldn’t suggest if you don’t know what you’re doing, or opt in to a VPS like DigitalOcean or Linode

[@pegaggio]

is this free

[@trufflepig2578]

Can I borrow some money?

[@notkirb_]

it depends on how you host it... if you are localhosting then it will be included in your electricity bill. if cloud hosting, it depends on what cloud host you use. i personally use oci's always free plan and it is plenty for my server.

[@McDinoh]

@@notkirb_ OCI - ???

[@notkirb_]

@@McDinoh oracle cloud infrastructure