Setting up a MineCraft Bedrock Server on Synology!! - Using Docker

[@peterderousse9597]

Among the best informative tech videos I've seen. You have excellent youtube etiquette and pacing. Helped me solve a very specific problem that was way above my abilities, I learned a bit about docker and got a tour of how Bedrock actually works. Thanks!

[@olivers.9229]

THANK YOU... I spent 2 or 3 (?) hours... And then i found your video. 10 minutes later the server works... My sons will enjoy it... thank you....

[@Dmstrify]

I don't get why the other video without vocal explanations has 8k views and this one just ± 300. I love you man!!

[@galapagos1969]

Thanks heaps. I followed Marc's but the young bloke wanted Creative. I saw your back and forth with Marc and I wasn't sure what's going on. I then saw your vid and knew you would clear things up and it did. Thanks Will (and Marc)

[@nickbouton]

This was super helpful Will, thanks!

[@MarcTVde]

Glad I could help.

[@tracebrentley8029]

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[@roryfletcher1124]

@Trace Brentley I would suggest flixzone. You can find it by googling =)

[@romanmark8403]

@Trace Brentley i would suggest flixzone. You can find it by googling :)

[@mikeloose9270]

Awesome video! Thank you very much. Followed it and it worked great. Learned about game rules too thanks to your tip at the end. Really great, thanks for taking the time to make this :)

[@richardhopwood2912]

Hi Will. Thanks for this video. Was tearing my hair out trying to get this working :). Cheers!

[@mihauOne87]

TOP! Working perfect ! Big THX for your Video

[@Richthofen80]

Thank you very much! Allowed me to set up a server that my son and I can play on with something already sitting around :)

[@b0rt1980]

Great video. I had some hiccups which were weird, but got it working in the end. Now for me and the kids to start building :)

[@Loughlan]

Thanks heaps. I got stuck on the server.properties To be clear, the server.properties from bedrock and java are significantly different. I ended up having to copy one from the minecraft wiki site. I've also converted over a lovely Java map using MCCToolChest PE and loaded it into my nas. Once again, thank you for your video, I appreciate it :)

[@ronkwok5273]

Hi Will, thanks for the awesome video! I got to point 9:17 where I am supposed to copy files from another world to paste into your server ... but I don't have any worlds to copy from. Can you advise how I can get worlds so that I can do the step in your video at 9:17?

[@mindcontrolbsm9046]

Mate! Thx very much for the cool video

[@dk_medic]

Thank you for a nice tuturial. I manage to setup a server for my daughter

[@Bugabushi]

How do we update the server version? (E.g 1.16.2 to 1.16.100) Our server stopped working after the latest mc update.

[@Rickles]

Great guide. Thank you. I feel like I understand docker/networking a bit better.

[@Sweber1983]

Thanks for the tutorial, Where would I get the server properties and JSON file if I don't have a copy of them? I don't see anything in the server folder.

[@zipmic]

Great explaination

[@ecchimo]

If I haven’t set one up before then where do I get the whitelist and serversettings files from?

[@willcta1]

Easiest way is to download the server package from minecraft themselves, extract and simply copy and paste - download the bedrock edition www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/bedrock/

[@elbrodark956]

nice video, on which synology does this run? i dont know if my DS1819+ can handle that, while streaming some videos in the background.

[@willcta1]

Thanks, glad you like the vid, mine is only a 916+ and it runs perfect, I would well imagine yours will run it even better, minecraft doesn't take up much resources.

[@flugel1]

@@willcta1 Depends on how many players @ chunks loaded etcetra. But the 916+ / 918+ specially the DS1819+ will do it perfectly they are the monsters of home NAS :)

[@galapagos1969]

Hi Will, Is it possible to upgrade the version running in Docker. The kid my boy plays with updated his client and now cannot connect to the server. I did one rebuild but I don't want to build a new container everytime there's an update.

[@tonytone23]

I have the same question, how do I update the server?

[@ima_bread]

I used to have a server like this but when my game updated the server became out dated, how do I fix this?

[@Julifet]

Thanks a lot for this video

[@richardrain]

Hi thank you fornuour video. I am trying to setup the server, port wouldnt change is that bad? When we tried to find the world in minecraft it said no world. Any help would be great. Kids are super excited hoping to figure it out.

[@richardrain]

Where do you get server properties file if we don’t have previous server?

[@richardrain]

Hi will thank you for your video. I am having trouble changing the port so i used default but it said world not there when we tried access it from minefraft

[@matthewkretman2125]

I am getting an error message "Could not connect: Outdated Server!". Have you had this issue yet and if yes what did you do to resolve it? Is there a way to automate it to update on its own at scheduled days/times?

[@RyanBarnes]

I was banging my head on the desk trying to figure out why it wasn't reading the server.properties file. MarcTV should really update the site to tell us we need to do that. Thanks for this info for sure. Could you also cover how to load mods?

[@willcta1]

Glad it helped! - My 8 year old lad is the one for the mods haha - I haven't had time to play in a while

[@RyanBarnes]

@@willcta1 The only trouble I have now is with the new update (Wild Update w/ Warden) I can't seem to get MarcTV working like it should. Did all the same steps and it just loads a basic new world rather than updating with our current world. I wound up deleting it all to try another day. My son goes through phases of wanting to play MC or not. Will probably try again another day.

[@indridcold2872]

Still waiting for an answer on how to run 2 dockers that contain each a world. I'm only able to publish one in the LAN list of the PS4. Any idea's?

[@TomTom-rs6jy]

Thanks for the video. It works, but when my friend tries to connect it doesn't work. And in the settings the "multiplayer" is gray and not activated. Both with Windows 10.

[@jonathanmiller4010]

Thanks for the video, very helpful. However, how do I get the server.properties and whitelist.json files? You copied them from a previously setup server, but I am doing it from scratch. Need to set up OP access to change settings within Minecraft for my kids. Thanks!

[@indridcold2872]

the server.properties are already there after installation. The whitelist.json is easy to create yourself in Notepad: www.beastnode.com/portal/knowledgebase/6/Setting-Up-a-Whitelist-or-Make-Your-Server-Private.html / don't forget to load the whitelist.json in docker > container > volume. You need to add the file there so it gets loaded and also put 'white-list=true' in the server properties.

[@davidpreiss464]

Thanks for this! It's worked great. Except today I update Minecraft (stupid, I know) and now the server is outdated. Do you have a good step by step to update the server?

[@lootinchunk]

Hey there, thanks for the video, helped me immensely! One question, I haven't been able to find how to turn Coordinates On.! Suggestions? Also running synology

[@xanadudk]

Hello first : it's a great video. I'll got my first minecraft server to go, but whiteout the server rules, and the whitelist. I can't get it to work. I wonder it I'll make a world call ( funworld) and put it to the server.? Is that something that you can make a video how to eksport a world, and the import it to the server. Sorry my English is not good. I'm from Denmark 🇩🇰

[@matthewkretman2125]

this video was a huge help. server works great! I want to get it setup to access external to my home network. Do you have any information on setting on Synology needed to do this and what you did for your port forwarding on your router?

[@willcta1]

Hi Matthew, apologies only just seen this, yes its pretty simple, just go into your router settings and find port forwarding, make sure you point the port that you chose when setting up the game to your synology, so for example if your synology internal IP was 192.168.1.2 then point 19132 or 20132 to that ip address

[@richardrain]

Hi again got pssed that but am stuck on how to get admin rights? Was there a step i missed, becuase i see you are copying files and I don’t know where to get them from

[@mariomazzella1110]

Where did you get your bedrock-worlds directory from? Yours was already there when you started the video. It keeps telling me that it can't find the world when I try to connect.

[@piyawat121]

How ur friends connect with out portforward?

[@willcta1]

I do cover this in the video explaining that you will have to setup port forwarding

[@robbydemeulenaere7374]

hi your video was a real help to setup my own mc server but when i tried to connect to it on my ps4 i have some problems i cant add any server! when i go to the Servers Tab, it just shows me "popular Servers" and nothing more. these popular servers are just 5, Lifeboat, Mineplex, The Hive, and two others i just forgot their Name because they are really crap what can do to get the add server button i even dont have the add LAN game button is that normal??

[@vmsanta]

I opped the player but I keep having to do it every now and again. Is there a way of making opped permanently?

[@andyvb3115]

thanks for you help on this, much appreciated. Don't suppose you know how to enable maps on start up or at least co-ordinates. Also are we able to get the latest version of minecraft from this?

[@salumbidesfamily]

To show coordinates. Go into server terminal and enter: gamerule show coordinates true

[@mihauOne87]

show coordinates true

[@kmineard2012]

Hi Will. I definitely can use a hand. My server properties isn't working. Also I am getting Syntex error trying to make self op

[@PrestonPoolerPhotography]

I have port forwarded my server in my router settings but when I try to join the server while not being on my network it still won't connect to the server. If I connect to the server while being on the network. I don't know if I am port forwarding correctly.

[@OlafRolnik]

Great video :) I wish more guys will use it. I have 2 questions - if I have now VOLUME NOT mapped anywhere, all DB is located in /volume1/@docker/volumes/xxxxxxx. If I will now add in properties of server FILE/FOLDER and MOUNT PATH for WOLRDS, will this generate new one and old will be removed? Second question, how to add CUSTOM MAP? I was searching net, but nothing valuable for docker on syno.... :(

[@willcta1]

Am really not sure, give it a try!

[@L3oRC]

Hi! i set the server just like marctv's tutorial and works, but i can't import my own map and i can't see how to modify that, can you help me?

[@PhysNAstro]

Have set it up following all instructions, but cannot even connect to it on the local network any ideas why this might be the case? I have tried default and custom ports to avoid any conflicts, I have restarted everything several times, made completely new containers. I can access the NAS and see it is running but Minecraft cannot locate the server at all. Even went to extra steps of adding whitelist and port forwarding and still nothing.

[@GeertWognum]

I have the same issue, Can't really work out why this happens, Did you resolve it? I can see files being created on the NAS folder and can talk to Minecraft through terminal. so the server seems to be running.

[@PhysNAstro]

@@GeertWognum No, I haven't had much luck. I tried some of the other images and they also have the same issue. Lots of googling and port testing later it seems to be an issue with docker generally not actually exposing ports to the network and only letting the host machine access the container... people suggest all sorts of network wizardry to achieve correct routing, some of which I tried and didn't see any good result, and some of which is beyond me and so I remain stuck...My current status is I have removed docker and am considering just setting up the server on another computer using the proper server ... I'd love to get it running on the NAS, but although I know a little bit about networking this just seems way too impossible with Docker

[@renozill]

@@PhysNAstro I can get the Minecraft server setup on my Synology NAS and and can access it locally but no matter what I try I can' t access it externally. So stumped just like you are unfortunately :(

[@indridcold2872]

@@GeertWognum Be sure you have done portforwarding in your Synology and also on your router

[@indridcold2872]

@@renozill I can access my Minecraft externally by typing my DDNS hostname instead of the IP address. Be sure your ports are configured in Synology and your router.

[@jordanm2745]

im getting a netty error i cannot login to the server at all im on lan so i shouldnt have to mess with the fire wall at all should i?

[@Neumahn]

I am trying to install plugins in my bedrock server on Synology. Do you know how? There is no plugins folder.

[@tombetts9773]

How do I set up a white list? My attempts just seem to say 'Not implemented' when typing whitelist on into the console

[@tonytone23]

Hi Will, can I bother you for more detailed guidance on the port forwarding settings? I know how to setup on my Apple router, but need some guidance . Let me know best way to contact you.

[@tonytone23]

Port forwarding solved by following instructions on MarcTV's youtube: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJPcpoqhe5WFhLM. Set everything to 19132 and port forward 19132 to Synology's first IP address. Will provided more detailed instructions for how to setup operator mode.

[@stuartcolburn6437]

Hi Will, great guide. Will this server setup work for Xbox and other consoles?

[@indridcold2872]

Yes, works for PS4 and Nintendo Switch for me. Look into my channel on how to connect to this server with the Nintendo Switch.

[@erikaasberg3057]

Yes yes yes, finally a guide that worked for me. But then I have a little prayer, is it possible to insert a custom world instead of the standard world and can you add mods ???

[@seanc4877]

Thanks for the video... Had a little challenge getting Docker going on my new Synology but after a restart I was able to launch the container. Unfortunately, I've had to select different ports as Docker Refuses to forget the ones I had originally tried and I deleted that image/container to restart the setup. No idea where the conflict is coming from but moving on... So now my container is running and I'm trying to connect from my iPad which is running Minecraft v.1.16.10. I have no idea if this version will connect to a Bedrock server or if I'm doing something else wrong. This is all on my home LAN so it should find the server but I just get an error "Unable to connect to world"? Any guidance? Thanks

[@seanc4877]

ok - I read through some of the source material Will used. Specifically - marc.tv/anleitung-minecraft-bedrock-server-auf-einem-synology-nas/ I uploaded the server.properties & json.whitelist, then added both gamertags my kids use using the minecraft console from within the container. And viola, I was able to connect. Not sure why it shows up as a "Friend" vs Server but that's for another day.

[@glennjacobs2004]

I cant even connect to my own server, NOT on LAN ip adres & public ip adres. ports are open

[@nigelslack47]

Hi ya How does we add mods to it.

[@iub.9893]

How do I install mods?

[@willcta1]

NOt tried that one yet :)

[@Od4n]

Oh, and if the Microsoft privacy settings get in your way ...just make sure the birthdate is set to anything adult (just lie if it's actually a child), then you can access the xbox privacy settings and allow the stuff needed to add a server. You may have to delete all browser cookies to have success. I HATE Microsoft and ALL related. That includes Minecraft.