Running a Minecraft Server on WHAT???

Got old Android phones? Spare phones? Nothing to do with them? With this, you can run a completely local Minecraft server on the latest version of Minecraft! No root required!
Termux
github.com/termux/termux-app
AnLinux
github.com/EXALAB/AnLinux-App
Commands for Termux
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[@Kecske_Gaming]

The program is called screencopy, not scrapy

[@adrianstech]

thanks for the correction, it made sense in my head to call it that way lol

[@LifelessNerd]

@@adrianstech ive been calling it scrapy for ages tbh

[@Lobsturts]

What i call it scrapy

[@TimeTravelingFetus]

I just call it skurpee

[@HeyImRancover]

@@Lobsturtsi call it scurpy

[@thecomputer]

more successful than when i tried it using a literal pc

[@deivisnx]

Sorry but, litterally the easiest thing ever.

[@b-fenix5789]

​@@deivisnx I think he means in performance

[@Meletion1]

@@b-fenix5789 bros phone is better than a pc???1?1?1

[@b-fenix5789]

@@Meletion1 most people don't host the server on their main pc, at least not permanently. That spare pc can have mixed results. my spare pc had core 2 quad, so you can imagine the performance. not that i even get to use it for more then rosting Jellyfin

[@Hellscaped]

@@b-fenix5789 you use linux on it, right? Right????

[@Meletion1]

I almost was crying when you smashed the phone and then I realized.

[@Sashey]

Same

[@amazingmation97]

😭😭

[@AnisTheLxgend]

that pixel 6 pro is still capable, i love the google ui, i want a pixel for myself but they are rare in my country

[@javario.]

​@@AnisTheLxgend what u country live in I live iñ france

[@AnisTheLxgend]

@@javario. i am from algeria.

[@oimateusaqui]

That's how I run my server to play with my friends: I have an old phone, screen broken, so no use as a normal phone, with Android 10, rooted with Magisk, I use a module to run a Ubuntu chroot distro directly on the system, which I use to run java, and of course, my Minecraft server, it runs really great, as we are only 4 players. To have some extra "boost" I modified it's zram size to 3GB, and I use some commands to disable android hibernation, screen backlight, battery optimizations and so on. Everything that I need is adb to control the device.

[@ehsanapk4739]

Hey bro can you say exactly say what you did I wanna do it

[@santiagogamerchannel]

how did u make ur friends join?

[@Kourz]

​You have to give them the IP to the servers. On console you gotta use a certain app on your phone to make it joinable

[@santiagogamerchannel]

@@Kourz I'm having a problem like making it able to play on t laucher and wen I put the "Phones IP" on the computer I can't join it

[@Kourz]

@@santiagogamerchannel not really sure tbh

[@fervhtht4393]

I mean there's way more advanced things u could do with an old phone, those arm chips are pretty powerful and you can relativley eaisly create a kernel with docker support to even run a basic homelab on it

[@sebastianclifford2869]

Yee Basiclt a raspberry pi but looks different

[@HeyImRancover]

@@sebastianclifford2869you can probably install pi os on the phone

[@Meletion1]

@@sebastianclifford2869 yeah

[@Meletion1]

Yes, awesome idea

[@enderteck3273]

Bro the new 1.20.5 uses Java 21! It was announced in the patch notes. You tried installing all the versions.

[@Meletion1]

I have dual Java now 🥶

[@LauLauHip]

​@@Meletion1 Bruh I literally install a java version for every Java app I need to run because no one uses the same jdk 😭

[@mango19918]

yo this is actually a great video! keep up the good work

[@CoveWolf]

I ran a Minecraft Java server on a Nintendo switch using Ubuntu Linux for ARM. (One that could be port forwarded out to the internet of wished) the performance was ok but not great. Could work as a small smp or a server for a few friends. The phone you ran it on was definitely better than that lol. Love the vid. Nice editing!

[@Meletion1]

Haha that's cool

[@legendaryrank69]

Lol I ran it in kali linux nethunter termux with Java 21 very Ez​@@Meletion1

[@JerrySM64]

Damn, that's a great video. Great to follow along, i really enjoyed it. With Java 8 you could do a 1.12.2 or 1.8 Server. With Java 17 1.19. Thanks for the idea. Wanted to play 1.12.2 with my friends and had no idea how to do Java 8 on a recent Ubuntu install. I will try it on an old phone I have laying around and if it's working, it'll go on my homelab. :) That's definitely a great way of repurposing a phone that wouldn't work for daily use!

[@Meletion1]

yay

[@arandomguythatdoesntpost]

Actually amazing content, Subbed.

[@Meletion1]

same

[@liticane]

On any Linux distribution the capital letter in a choice is the default answer. You can just press enter to select the default answer instead of typing Y and then entering. Also the software you were using for using the phone's screen (scrcpy) is actually (scr)een (c)o(py).

[@NT_Company]

*no way we even got a mc server on mobile Before GTA 6*

[@TOXICBOY11223]

damn

[@Woodman3]

I already did this a year ago lol. It's hella more complicated now than it was.

[@Meletion1]

Gta6 is a lot more complicated than this haha

[@RuriYoshinova]

did it years ago, it's not new.

[@Galaxy-hf7ms]

​@@Woodman3hella hard my Dumass bought an Android tablet for a car and did a server

[@aboveaphid]

Woah! That was so cool! Idk you could actually host servers on phones I thought people just booted phones into Linux if they’re in cybersecurity.

[@ezekielverbo5541]

bro is underrated keep up the good content bro

[@AMV12S]

I remember when I did this in 2011 with a Jailbroken iPhone 4... Barely runned, but was so cool to do this 😂

[@eHyp]

really good video, i subbed

[@snakrrmvp]

he got good quality videos, he is too underrated tbh

[@williamthecoolboy]

It's actually really easy to host your world on Bedrock by enabling multiplayer (it's enabled by default), but it's really nice to see this working with Java!

[@Meletion1]

Servers can be 24/7 and on separate hardware without graphics rendering, and geyser, Java is also... Java, so you get mods, plug-ins, datapacks etc.

[@Spiderfffun]

So true, bugrock has nothing on us.

[@soyilai]

@@Meletion1 PocketMine and BDS (Bedrock Dedicated Server), both can run on Termux!

[@alejandroalzatesanchez]

2:15 I relate so much with this bit that is unreal, mine was a S9 with the same screen & touch issues and i did EXACTLY the same.

[@N4S7G]

Amazing video! This is very good knowledge to have.

[@Quixotik]

Yo I've done this before, it was actually a pretty fun project to do when you have free time. Sadly the phone I used sucked so bad that random chunks in the world get corrupted randomly.

[@GGPlayyZ6705]

Underrated content 🔥

[@RaisinBarXZ550]

Wait this is fucking genius. My S10's screen touch is dead. If i get it to run an MC server through ill finally have a use for my favourite phone that doesnt involve destroying the poor thing.

[@Meletion1]

Keyboard and mouse will help with a adapter

[@RaisinBarXZ550]

@@Meletion1 yeah that's what I plan on using, but I might also use a screen copy tool I've got

[@crafymc]

This video is so good you deserve a sub

[@ionutpff]

Awesome video! Is there any way to like control the server data via a website, like have a dashboard with start/stop/restart file manager and things like that?

[@mr_faze7188]

You got a new subscriber me keep up the good work

[@Nikilite]

NOOOOO THE PIXEL

[@xeoxing1404]

For real.

[@Meletion1]

It was stripped naked though

[@Anxyis]

Pretty cool stuff!

[@alte87altex45]

This video is really underrated! Amazing!

[@ayyerr]

I ran a minecraft server on my old phone (samsung a70, snapdragon 675 6GB ram), it ran really nicely and could handle 5-6 players at 12 chunks 7 sim distance. I do not recommend giving the server more than half of your total ram. I gave mine 3GB (3072MB) and it ran fine but the moment I went a tiny bit over androids OOM killer just annihilated the whole termux process lol. You could try disabling the OOM with various tweaks but I didn't feel like doing that since I'd need to root

[@Unknown-64209]

Can I do it in my a70s? It has like 8gigs of ram and sd 6 series.

[@lawrenz9306]

great video! I wonder if it will run much better when using a relatively new iphone?

[@coolkosmos]

that tnt test is fire

[@MutasimosDoesProgramming]

pun intended?

[@Clyde6790pYoutube]

@@MutasimosDoesProgramming probably

[@Meletion1]

@@Clyde6790pKZbin it's explosive hahjahaha I'm so funny (this is being ironic btw)

[@Justinsan]

you have to switch verison manualy using sudo update-alternatives --config java [ its a issue on Ubuntu sometimes ]

[@adrianstech]

Didn't know this, thanks for mentioning it

[@Meletion1]

This should be in description

[@frixnipe]

Man has such a stash of broken phones, I wish I had that too...

[@NexusXP]

This is amazing.

[@DavidJake]

7 years ago, I did run my first Minecraft Server on Andrioid Kitkat...

[@Paparazzombie]

you deserve more subs

[@KIN65UPER]

Frankly, I'm not surprised anymore. On my Samsung Galaxy A54 5G phone, I can download all modpacks via java connected to curseforge: RLCraft modpack, SkyFactory all packages; SkyFactory 2/3/4/FTB/One etc. or dawncraft modpack. On top of that, I'm not surprised at all after learning that I can play optifine mod, JEI mod or all the modpacks and mods you can install on the computer. Even opening a server on the phone seems simple :D In the past, I was tired of looking for addons on MCPE and dealing with .mcpack to play Skyfactory on the phone. Now I bought a USB PD supported hub for the phone, I connect the keyboard, mouse and charging adapter to it and log in to the RLCraft servers with the phone.

[@Iamkaden]

This was SICK. Got it running on my Galaxy S7, how can you edit the files to make it render more chunks?

[@Oxydeologist]

that "god fricken damnit" was so real when using linux

[@TheMurderBirdsSMP]

i ran my server off a Kindle Fire 8 (10th gen) Tablet I do NOT recomend as it was both a pain int compatibility (had to move it to linux mint for some aspects such as undervolting) it was a great learning experience but don't do it, I use Apex hosting now (mobile devices are not meant to run heavy tasks and programs 24/7 and cant dissipate the heat correctly 99% of the time, needing to be modified which for me included cutting a massive hole in the back case of the tablet and placing an 80mm 12v fan powered by a janky power supply)

[@Sanatani21341]

Man i really shock when i saw his subscribers 😢

[@wuhlheide]

The Java version for 1.20.4 is openjdk-19. I did setup a raspberry pi minecraft server just recently and still remember that mojang tested 1.20.4 in java 19

[@max1mde]

Its JDK 17+

[@jeterang8232]

worked great for my z fold 3 with enhanced processing enabled as well i blew up so much tnt.

[@Meletion1]

boom

[@donotdew]

I would be curious to see how well Paper or Folia ran on such a device.

[@lelkasa361]

well i did think of this, thanks!

[@PeytonWX]

thanks for filling me up with this content!

[@Meletion1]

🤨

[@astaxu]

Nobody's gonna talk about his legendary mc name ?

[@ImSuchAZero]

OMG why are you so underated???

[@RedGMD]

I remember doing this like 2 years ago, it didn't work that bad :)

[@pashalecqua]

cool video this was a fun watch!

[@Meletion1]

certified comment by.. me?

[@the-moon161]

10:38 That phone did not deserve that.

[@Benangelo-ng9ov]

Bro trust me ur gonna be famous

[@greekman7877]

Can you make a video tutorial on: 1)How to install a fabric server on the phone 2) How to make it so your friends can join please? Vanilla is alright but i like fabric because of tbe mods.

[@teomon]

Subscribed❤

[@lukamitrovic6253]

we have mc server on android before gta 6

[@linuxization4205]

i thought you were gonna compile the minecraft java executable into a dalvik executable (the format Android executes Java code from)

[@scoutg001]

now idk how anlinux works but after spinning up the ubuntu VM you should have been able to ssh in from windows and make your life a little easier in the regard of using the terminal

[@wuhlheide]

"change of plans" got me so hard. dunno why

[@Meletion1]

wdym-

[@iwillsubbacktoeveryone]

such a high production video for a small channel. kudos to you adrian!!

[@iplayfortnite8302]

yeah i expect this from a much bigger channel

[@marekmarej]

true

[@Dispnser]

i have a modded minecraft server running on my old phone since 2021 its ez af to setup

[@Concrete-wy4tx]

best vid on youtube

[@jayrony69]

6 gigabytes is 6144 megabytes not 6192

[@matigamesplus4850]

You can play and host server on your phone

[@bohhobohho3457]

now i know why his phones are broken💀💀

[@gabbieblue]

i love that the hardest part about this was getting the right java version lmfao

[@grape-wtf]

If you wanna port forward and your to lazy or dont know how, install a fabric server and install the PortForwarded mod from modrinth!

[@Flameboi900]

Fyi since android is Java based you can literally run a Minecraft server entirely native on android without a Linux vm

[@bloodmanipulator]

can you show how to do this for a bedrock official server? maybe just a few edits or something to the code

[@spaffx]

yo can you do a tutorial on how to port forward it using ngrok

[@PetrosTotskas]

you're pointing out the fact that you're not faking this so much that I'm starting to get skeptical 😂

[@Xeotiz]

My phone will be destroyed before the 2nd tnt explodes

[@snakej2f532]

Me and my friends always make a server on our phone we use aternos but it's laggy and we use pojavlauncher a java edition launcher for Android

[@commandcracker42]

Alreda did this a few years ago :P

[@9blurpee]

Pixel 6 pro is my dream phone🗿

[@MessierOtaku]

I don't know u can do this :D, actually i am after this video smarter +10IQ up Btw don't stop, u have good and interesting content. U CAN'T STOP!

[@EmilianOverli]

Can you make another tutorial on how to make this server crossplay Java/Bedrock

[@Mohamadcrafts]

LOL i actually created a minecraft on my old phone using termux without a pc and its running really fine

[@n2wh]

I would have love to have that phone :(

[@Keyyq]

Thank you now I`m hosting a server on my phone, but i have a Question. Can i connect to the phone files so i can edit all server? Not with usb i want with network because usb is not working.

[@Anas-1220]

Is it possible to get a panel running on that phone? Like Puffer or Pterodactyl? I'm more comfortable with those.

[@IASTG]

U are proffessional! Did u had a successful youtube channel in the past?

[@adrianstech]

This is my first channel

[@rlZeroTwo]

Lol I just made that a couple of weeks ago just for fun using ADB haha.

[@muhtasimalahsan6996]

Great video❤❤ A question I wanted to ask if its possible to port forward for anyone to join?

[@adrianstech]

It is, you can port forward using your router's page and doing it how you would with any other self hosted Minecraft server. I tested running it through ngrok and that also worked

[@Woodman3]

​@@adrianstechThe mirror for the ubuntu package is down making it impossible to setup the server

[@Meletion1]

@@Woodman3 theirs probably a archive but I'm not 100

[@supercachewave]

literally ran a minecraft server on an android tv box like 2 months ago. its Not good.

[@Meletion1]

Wow

[@wuhlheide]

10:48 was that necessary? Edit: Thank god it was already broken. My heart!

[@cosmicstallion1]

🤔 can put plugins too? or add-ons? or mods?

[@Pantupino]

I bet that if you use a paperclip server it will run much better

[@adrianstech]

Yeah, Paper would run significantly better. I ended up trying Paper and it worked fine, so that option is always there

[@replikvltyoutube3727]

Should have installed headless openjdk, it doesn't include all the graphics, which makes it ~256MB instead of ~512MB

[@Meletion1]

🤓, I would also do the same though I can't be saying anything lmao

[@single1136]

can you also make a video for fabric server with mods active?

[@Meletion1]

It's the same deal

[@fireofnothing]

that creazy

[@VPlays56]

My friend litterly do exactly this

[@XenonXBR]

The OP7P is funny

[@UditplayzWHAT]

ayo same keyboard nice

[@CoverXbox]

You got the same mouse as me

[@marcosmerlosanchez5294]

Ótimo vídeo

[@lollol673]

Been doin this for a WHILE

[@aqua-bery]

If there's JVM there's a Minecraft server

[@TvManMc]

uses paper not the default server jar

[@adrianstech]

I ended up switching to paper for one of my own personal servers after I made the video, def an option though

[@Xerobius]

is it smarter to do it on my old Samsung j3 or my own current Samsung galaxy a53 ?