Minecraft Bedrock Edition is the version of Minecraft that powers the iPhone / Android versions (formerly Minecraft Pocket Edition), the Xbox / PlayStation / Nintendo Switch editions and the free Windows 10 Minecraft edition.
Mojang has released a dedicated server which is considered to be in alpha testing. I have found it to be very stable and able to run on a wide variety of hardware.
This script and guide are written to help you get a robust Minecraft Bedrock dedicated server up and running in only a few minutes!
This is the standalone version. The easiest and most problem-free way to run this is using Docker (installed as simply as sudo apt install docker.io): Legendary Minecraft Bedrock Container
Sets up the official Minecraft Bedrock Server (currently in alpha testing)
Fully operational Minecraft Bedrock edition server in a couple of minutes
Ubuntu / Debian distributions supported
Sets up Minecraft as a system service with option to autostart at boot
Automatic backups when server restarts
Supports multiple instances — you can run multiple Bedrock servers on the same system
Updates automatically to the latest or user-defined version when server is started
Easy control of server with start.sh, stop.sh and restart.sh scripts
Adds logging with timestamps to “logs” directory
Optional scheduled daily restart of server using cron
Requirements
A computer with a 64 bit processor (if you are trying to use ARM read my article on the limitations). 32 bit binaries of the official server are not available so it needs to be 64 bit!
1 GB of RAM or higher
The only officially supported platform by Microsoft is Ubuntu 22.04 / 20.04 (current LTS, recommended)
Other Linux flavors supported by this script as well as long as they use systemd (for the service). The script assumes apt is installed but there are minimal dependencies so you could install these on another distro (that doesn’t have apt present) and use the script normally.
Recommended Gear
Game Editions
Minecraft: Bedrock Edition is the “Windows 10” version of Minecraft as well as the version of Minecraft on the Xbox / Playstation / Switch. The versions of Minecraft for Android and iOS are also the Bedrock edition.
All of these versions support cross-platform play with each other (but not with the Java edition).
Minecraft Bedrock Digital Code
This is the PC Minecraft for Windows 10 (Bedrock) edition of Minecraft. It is able to play cross-platform with other players on Android / iOS / Playstation / Xbox / Switch. Available as a code that is instantly activated to give you permanent access to the game!
I strongly recommend a Solid State drive (SSD) for your server. This is because Minecraft is constantly reading/storing chunks to the disk which makes I/O performance very important.
These are much cheaper than they used to be. Here’s a decent 120 GB one (higher capacity options are available) at a very low price:
Kingston A400 2.5″ SATA SSD
The Kingston A400 is reliable, widely available around the world, has low power requirements and performs very well. It’s also very affordable. This drive has been benchmarked over 1000 times at Pi Benchmarks and is the #1 most popular SSD among the community!
If you have a M.2 NVME slot in your motherboard you can go with a high end drive. This will give your server maximum performance even if a large number of players are running around on the server changing blocks and triggering disk writes.
This is the one I have in my machine. These range from 250 GB to 2 TB depending on how big your server might grow:
The Samsung 980 Pro (NVMe) is a professional grade SSD and one of the fastest in the world. The Samsung NVMe drives have been at the top of this category for a long time and are well trusted for both their performance and reliability / long life.
Almost any PC made in the last few years will be a x86_64 bit computer. If you have an older computer around that isn’t being used then it will most likely have the right CPU and amount of memory (as well as fast storage) to run a basic server.
Throwing a SSD in one of these older computers will provide an excellent server experience for small and larger player counts.
The speed of your storage will make the largest difference. Older HDDs are going to have significantly slower performance than any modern SSD even with all other hardware equal. This is because the Minecraft server is constantly reading/writing chunks of your world as well as updates to it to the disk so this tends to be the bottleneck.
Operating System
I highly recommend using Ubuntu Server to run the Minecraft dedicated server. It is available here.
At the time of writing the current version is Ubuntu Server 20.04. This is a secure and robust operating system and will leave plenty of resources available for the server to run.
The script should run on any Debian based flavor of Linux but since the Minecraft Bedrock server is compiled natively for Ubuntu I recommend sticking with it. If you have a GUI flavor of Ubuntu and a decent PC (>= 2 GB of RAM) the server will work just fine on it.
Note: People have reported in the comments that Ubuntu 16.x is no longer working with the latest official Mojang binaries. Ubuntu 18.04 is the minimum requirement for the latest versions, and 20.04 is recommended!
Installation
Log into your Linux server either using SSH or a mouse and keyboard and paste/type the following command:
The script will setup the Minecraft sever and ask you some questions on how to configure it. I’ll explain here what they mean.
The first question will be the installation path. This is the root installation path for ALL servers you will have. If you add additional servers later you should select the exact same installation path. It should always be left as the default (~).
The only exception is if you have something like a completely dedicated disk for the Minecraft server. In that case you should always use the same root path of /mnt/yourdrive or wherever the path is for every new/additional server you install.
“Start Minecraft server at startup automatically (y/n)?” – This will set the Minecraft service to start automatically when your server boots. This is a great option to set up a Minecraft server that is always available.
“Automatically restart and backup server at 4am daily (y/n)?” – This will add a cron job to the server that reboots the server every day at 4am. This is great because every time the server restarts it backs up the server and updates to the latest version. See the “Scheduled Daily Reboots” section below for information on how to customize the time or remove the reboot.
That is it for the setup script. The server will finish configuring and start!
First Run
The server will start up and start displaying output to the console.
Once you see the “Server started” line you will be able to connect from the client.
To add the server to the client open Minecraft and click “Play”. Then at the top of the screen select the “Servers” tab and click “Add Server”.
This will ask you for a Server Name and Server IP Address. For the name you can put anything and for the server IP address put the address of your Linux server. Leave the port as the default 19132. For more information on how to let people from outside your network on go to the “Port Forwarding” section below.
Now choose the server you just added in the list and connect!
Start, Stop and Restart Server
The server can be started, stopped and restarted two different ways. You can use the provided scripts in the Minecraft folder or you can use systemctl. Here are the commands:
The server backs up each time it starts. This helps you recover easily if something goes wrong. This system works best if you configured the server to restart daily since it means you will have a backup every day.
To access these backups type:
cd ~/minecraftbe/backups ls
When a backup is made the filename will be the date and time the backup was taken. If you need to restore a backup it’s very easy. Substitute the timestamp in my example to the backup you want to roll back to. Type:
cd ~/minecraftbe
./stop.sh
rm -rf worlds
tar -xf backups/2019.02.15.22.06.30.tar.gz
./start.sh
Your world has now been restored! It’s a good idea to download these backups off the server periodically just in case the server’s storage fails.
The daily reboots are scheduled using cron. It’s very easy to customize the time your server restarts.
To change the time that the server restarts type: crontab -e
This will open a window that will ask you to select a text editor (I find nano to be the easiest) and will show the cronjobs scheduled on the server. The Minecraft one will look like the following:
0 4 * * * /home/ubuntu/minecraftbe/restart.sh
Crontab’s syntax layout
There are 5 fields here. The default restart time is set to reboot at 0 minutes of the 4th hour of the day (4 AM). The other 3 fields are left as * to represent every day of every month. Make any desired changes here and press Ctrl+X to exit nano and update the cronjob.
To remove the daily reboot simply delete the line and save.
Reconfigure / Update Scripts
The scripts can always be reconfigured and updated by downloading the latest SetupMinecraft.sh and running the installer again. It will update all of the scripts in the Minecraft directory and reinstall the startup service for you.
Running SetupMinecraft.sh again will also give you a chance to reconfigure options such as the memory dedicated to the server, daily reboots, starting the server on boot, etc.
This will not overwrite your world or any other data so it is safe to run!
Port Forwarding
If everyone on your server is on the same LAN or WiFi network as you then you don’t need to do this. If you want people to connect from outside your local network then you need to set up port forwarding on your router.
The process for this is different for every router so the best thing to do is just look at your router and find the model # and put that in google with port forwarding for easy instructions on how to do it for your specific router.
You want to forward port 19132. The type of connection is both TCP and UDP. On some routers you need to do both a TCP entry and then a second entry as UDP.
Once you do this people will be able to connect to your Minecraft server through your public IP address. This is different than your local IP which is usually a 192.x.x.x or 10.x.x.x. If you don’t know what that is just go to google and type “what’s my ip” and Google will kindly tell you!
Version Override
You can revert to a previous version with the revert.sh script included in your directory like this:
james@jamesgigabyte-linux:~/minecraftbe/james$ ./revert.sh
Set previous version in version_pin.txt: bedrock-server-1.19.10.20.zip
If you have a specific version you would like to run you can also create version_pin.txt yourself like this:
The version hold can be removed by deleting version_pin.txt. This will allow it to update to the latest version again!
Wired vs. Wireless
Going with an ethernet (wired) connection is going to be faster and more reliable. There’s so much wireless traffic and other interference in the air that running your server on WiFi is not recommended.
Even if it is working great 99% of the time it can ruin your experience very quickly if the WiFi drops for a couple of seconds and you get blown up by a creeper!
All that being said, the server works fine on wireless. The script will work fine as is with a wireless connection.
Benchmarking / Testing Storage
If you’re getting poor performance you may want to run my storage benchmark with:
PC results won’t show up on the site yet (it’s meant for Raspberry Pi) but it will run on Linux just fine and give you a score. If you search for the model of your drive on Pi Benchmarks you can compare your score with others and make sure the drive is performing correctly!
Troubleshooting Note – Oracle Virtual Machines
A very common problem people have with the Oracle Virtual Machine tutorials out there that typically show you how to use a free VM is that the VM is much more difficult to configure than just about any other product / offering out there.
It is because there are several steps you need to take to open the ports on the Oracle VM. You need to both:
Set the ingress ports (TCP/UDP) in the Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) security list
*and* set the ingress ports in a Network Security Group assigned to your instance
Both of these settings are typically required before you will be able to connect to your VM instance. This is purely configuration related and has nothing to do with the script or the Minecraft server itself.
I do not recommend this platform due to the configuration difficulty but the people who have gone through the pain of configuring an Oracle VM have had good experiences with it after that point. Just keep in mind it’s going to be a rough ride through the configuration for most people.
Troubleshooting Note – Hyper-V
There is a weird bug in Hyper-V that breaks UDP connections on the Minecraft server. The fix for this is that you have to use a Generation 1 VM with the Legacy LAN network driver.
Conclusion
The Minecraft Bedrock Edition dedicated server runs much better than previous third party servers in the past that were missing critical features. The performance is very good even on low end hardware. It has never been easier to set up a Minecraft Bedrock server.
If you have any feedback or suggestions let me know in the comment section. A lot of the changes and developments in this script and guide are directly from readers.
1,555 thoughts on “Minecraft Bedrock Edition – Ubuntu Dedicated Server Guide”
Aron Gooch
Hi,
Firstly id like to say this is a fantastic write up.
Unfortunately im having an issue I cannot seem to fix and apologise in advance if it has already been covered.
The server is all setup and running great on my Ubuntu laptop. On a Windows machine on the same network I can see the server but when I try to connect it hangs on “locating server”. The server on the laptop shows the user as connecting but then MineCraft times out and the user is disconnected after a small amount of time. Any ideas what might be going on? Thanks
There’s a couple things to check. One thing to watch out for is Bedrock primarily uses UDP but does use TCP for some things (I think it’s primarily UDP but I may have reversed them). This is usually why you ping the server or see how many players are on but then can’t actually connect. One type of traffic is making it through and the other isn’t. Often on firewalls people would select “TCP” and not the “UDP” side and see issues like this and the solution is to change it to “Both” on the port forward entry or add a second entry on firewalls that don’t have a both setting for both the TCP and UDP types.
In your case I think something else is going on. Since you’re on the same network internally it shouldn’t have anything to do with the port forwarding. I think it’s probably a still a firewall setting though even though you are on the local network. It’s likely a software firewall setting on the computer itself because of an experience we had in the comments here a while back.
The last person this happened to came back and left me a comment that the problem was actually the Windows firewall settings. You have to allow traffic on “Public” and “Private” networks (every single type) for the Minecraft client because of the way UDP traffic works. UDP traffic is stateless and is always “public” in that sense so Windows Firewall was blocking it for this person. It was causing the identical behavior of being able to see the server in the list but not actually able to establish a full session. I would check for this first.
Log File: ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libarmmem-${PLATFORM}.so' from /etc/ld.so.preload cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
WAD: NO LOG FILE! - setting up server logging...
[2021-03-15 11:31:51 INFO] Starting Server
[2021-03-15 11:31:51 INFO] Version 1.16.210.06
[2021-03-15 11:31:51 INFO] Session ID [was here and valid]
[2021-03-15 11:31:51 INFO] Level Name: Bedrock level
Console: chown: missing operand
Try 'chown --help' for more information.
Checking for the latest version of Minecraft Bedrock server ...
--2021-03-15 11:34:58-- https://minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/bedrock/
Resolving minecraft.net (minecraft.net)... 13.35.139.42, 13.35.139.53, 13.35.139.51, ...
Connecting to minecraft.net (minecraft.net)|13.35.139.42|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/bedrock/ [following]
--2021-03-15 11:34:58-- https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/bedrock/
Resolving www.minecraft.net... 23.211.116.138, 23.211.116.88
Connecting to www.minecraft.net|23.211.116.138|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: ‘downloads/version.html’
downloads/version.html [ ] 301.96K 922KB/s in 0.3s
Minecraft Bedrock server is up to date...
Starting Minecraft server. To view window type screen -r BedrockServer
To minimize the window and let the server run in the background, press Ctrl+A then Ctrl+D-
(crash)
Debian on a Raspberry Pi w/ 4GB RAM, any reason this happens?
The server is built for x86_64 so running it on the Raspberry Pi is done via emulation. It’s very slow and laggy unfortunately since a ARM version of the server has never been released.
Some people have thought it was fast enough and were able to get it working for their purposes on the Pi but for me and most others it’s way too laggy but definitely check out the article and see if you want to move forward. Hopefully that helps!
Hi James!
Thank you SO MUCH for your expertise and help. I have been using your scripts for a long time, they seem to always work. However, this new client update from Microsoft to 1.16.210.0050 (minecraft for windows, bedrock) and the server update to 1.16.210.06 seems to have introduced problems. The client will not connect to the server.
Have you tried this?
Thi happens when I setup the minecraft help me please. ./SetupMinecraft.sh: line 159: sudo: command not found
./SetupMinecraft.sh: line 164: screen: command not found
$ ./SetupMinecraft.sh: line 159: sudo: command not found
It looks like you’re missing sudo and screen on the system.
You should be able to install this with your package manager with something like apt install screen or the like depending on the package manager. The script tries to get these for you when it sets it up using apt (and even tries to get them for a few other OS’s I’ve used with it before) but I’m guessing that you are using something different than Raspberry Pi OS or Ubuntu. Which OS are you using?
Just getting the “sudo” application installed will probably do it. That may be why it’s not installing any dependencies for you!
Thankyou for this. I have almost no experience with any if this stuff and following these instructions, I was able to get up and running easily.
How do I change the dificulty setting for the world?….my children would prefer to play in normal.
And
Is it possible to change the ‘seed’ for the world?
Thanks again.
Thanks for the kind words, I’m glad it was helpful!
Both the difficulty and the seed can be set in the server.properties file. You can edit this file by going into the your server’s folder. It’s located at ~/minecraftbe/yourservername. You can just open the file with a text editor if you are using the desktop version of Raspbian (you can do this in a file window) or you can do it in the terminal by typing:
cd ~/minecraftbe/yourservername
nano server.properties
You’ll see the difficulty in there and you can just change it to difficulty=2 for “Normal” mode. There’s a list of all the options and what they do here at this document (scroll down to the “Bedrock” section as the top one will be for the “Java” version). This will tell you what all of the other options to do and what values you can put in to adjust them. It’s pretty easy!
Changing the seed will also be in here. The seed will either be nothing (blank) or a randomly generated one. You can replace the part after ‘seed=’ with the seed you’d like to use. Once you replace the seed you may need to remove the “world” folder as the initial chunks will have generated with the old seed (at least around the spawn or where anyone has logged in and gone to) but this is optional (just make sure you close the server first if you try to remove the world folder). All new chunks will generate with the seed in server.properties after a restart!
Once you’ve finished making changes press Ctrl+X to save and then answer “y” to the prompt to save your changes (if you used nano, if you used the GUI just choose save from the menus). Hopefully that helps and have fun!
Hi James, Thanks for the script. I had this running on Ubuntu 18.04 for ages and it worked perfectly. Upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 and I can no longer start the service. Re-running the original script doesn’t work either. Thoughts? Here is the error:
Mar 06 08:52:41 srv01 bash[310009]: 250K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 72.1M
Mar 06 08:52:41 srv01 bash[310009]: 300K .. 5556G=0.04s
Mar 06 08:52:41 srv01 bash[310009]: 2021-03-06 08:52:41 (8.33 MB/s) - ‘downloads/version.html’ saved [310183]
Mar 06 08:52:41 srv01 bash[309988]: Minecraft Bedrock server is up to date...
Mar 06 08:52:41 srv01 bash[309988]: Starting Minecraft server. To view window type screen -r BedrockServer
Mar 06 08:52:41 srv01 bash[309988]: To minimize the window and let the server run in the background, press Ctrl+A then Ctrl+D
Mar 06 08:52:41 srv01 systemd[1]: Started BedrockServer Minecraft Bedrock Server.
Mar 06 08:52:46 srv01 bash[310066]: Server is not currently running!
Mar 06 08:52:46 srv01 systemd[1]: BedrockServer.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 06 08:52:46 srv01 systemd[1]: BedrockServer.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
You can also try running the service yourself and see what happens with:
sudo systemctl start BedrockServer
This may yield an error message that may be helpful. It may also be possible that after your upgrade you just need to reload the daemons with the command:
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
Can you give those three things a try? This should help us narrow down what is going wrong here!
Hi, just wanted to jump in and mention that I had the exact same error a week or so after my initial setup and deleting the .service file and rerunning the script fixed the issue.
Hi,
Firstly id like to say this is a fantastic write up.
Unfortunately im having an issue I cannot seem to fix and apologise in advance if it has already been covered.
The server is all setup and running great on my Ubuntu laptop. On a Windows machine on the same network I can see the server but when I try to connect it hangs on “locating server”. The server on the laptop shows the user as connecting but then MineCraft times out and the user is disconnected after a small amount of time. Any ideas what might be going on? Thanks
Hey Aron,
There’s a couple things to check. One thing to watch out for is Bedrock primarily uses UDP but does use TCP for some things (I think it’s primarily UDP but I may have reversed them). This is usually why you ping the server or see how many players are on but then can’t actually connect. One type of traffic is making it through and the other isn’t. Often on firewalls people would select “TCP” and not the “UDP” side and see issues like this and the solution is to change it to “Both” on the port forward entry or add a second entry on firewalls that don’t have a both setting for both the TCP and UDP types.
In your case I think something else is going on. Since you’re on the same network internally it shouldn’t have anything to do with the port forwarding. I think it’s probably a still a firewall setting though even though you are on the local network. It’s likely a software firewall setting on the computer itself because of an experience we had in the comments here a while back.
The last person this happened to came back and left me a comment that the problem was actually the Windows firewall settings. You have to allow traffic on “Public” and “Private” networks (every single type) for the Minecraft client because of the way UDP traffic works. UDP traffic is stateless and is always “public” in that sense so Windows Firewall was blocking it for this person. It was causing the identical behavior of being able to see the server in the list but not actually able to establish a full session. I would check for this first.
Hopefully that helps!
Log File:
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libarmmem-${PLATFORM}.so' from /etc/ld.so.preload cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.WAD:
NO LOG FILE! - setting up server logging...[2021-03-15 11:31:51 INFO] Starting Server
[2021-03-15 11:31:51 INFO] Version 1.16.210.06
[2021-03-15 11:31:51 INFO] Session ID [was here and valid]
[2021-03-15 11:31:51 INFO] Level Name: Bedrock level
Console:
chown: missing operandTry 'chown --help' for more information.
Checking for the latest version of Minecraft Bedrock server ...
--2021-03-15 11:34:58-- https://minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/bedrock/
Resolving minecraft.net (minecraft.net)... 13.35.139.42, 13.35.139.53, 13.35.139.51, ...
Connecting to minecraft.net (minecraft.net)|13.35.139.42|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/bedrock/ [following]
--2021-03-15 11:34:58-- https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/bedrock/
Resolving www.minecraft.net... 23.211.116.138, 23.211.116.88
Connecting to www.minecraft.net|23.211.116.138|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: ‘downloads/version.html’
downloads/version.html [ ] 301.96K 922KB/s in 0.3s
2021-03-15 11:35:00 (922 KB/s) - ‘downloads/version.html’ saved [309204]
Minecraft Bedrock server is up to date...
Starting Minecraft server. To view window type screen -r BedrockServer
To minimize the window and let the server run in the background, press Ctrl+A then Ctrl+D-
(crash)
Debian on a Raspberry Pi w/ 4GB RAM, any reason this happens?
Hey Steven,
The server is built for x86_64 so running it on the Raspberry Pi is done via emulation. It’s very slow and laggy unfortunately since a ARM version of the server has never been released.
I have a special guide for the Pi on this here with some more information: Official Minecraft Bedrock Dedicated Server on Raspberry Pi*
Some people have thought it was fast enough and were able to get it working for their purposes on the Pi but for me and most others it’s way too laggy but definitely check out the article and see if you want to move forward. Hopefully that helps!
Hi James!
Thank you SO MUCH for your expertise and help. I have been using your scripts for a long time, they seem to always work. However, this new client update from Microsoft to 1.16.210.0050 (minecraft for windows, bedrock) and the server update to 1.16.210.06 seems to have introduced problems. The client will not connect to the server.
Have you tried this?
Thi happens when I setup the minecraft help me please.
./SetupMinecraft.sh: line 159: sudo: command not found./SetupMinecraft.sh: line 164: screen: command not found
$ ./SetupMinecraft.sh: line 159: sudo: command not found
Hey Rudassy,
It looks like you’re missing sudo and screen on the system.
You should be able to install this with your package manager with something like
apt install screenor the like depending on the package manager. The script tries to get these for you when it sets it up using apt (and even tries to get them for a few other OS’s I’ve used with it before) but I’m guessing that you are using something different than Raspberry Pi OS or Ubuntu. Which OS are you using?Just getting the “sudo” application installed will probably do it. That may be why it’s not installing any dependencies for you!
Thankyou for this. I have almost no experience with any if this stuff and following these instructions, I was able to get up and running easily.
How do I change the dificulty setting for the world?….my children would prefer to play in normal.
And
Is it possible to change the ‘seed’ for the world?
Thanks again.
Hey Mat,
Thanks for the kind words, I’m glad it was helpful!
Both the difficulty and the seed can be set in the server.properties file. You can edit this file by going into the your server’s folder. It’s located at ~/minecraftbe/yourservername. You can just open the file with a text editor if you are using the desktop version of Raspbian (you can do this in a file window) or you can do it in the terminal by typing:
cd ~/minecraftbe/yourservernamenano server.properties
You’ll see the difficulty in there and you can just change it to difficulty=2 for “Normal” mode. There’s a list of all the options and what they do here at this document (scroll down to the “Bedrock” section as the top one will be for the “Java” version). This will tell you what all of the other options to do and what values you can put in to adjust them. It’s pretty easy!
Changing the seed will also be in here. The seed will either be nothing (blank) or a randomly generated one. You can replace the part after ‘seed=’ with the seed you’d like to use. Once you replace the seed you may need to remove the “world” folder as the initial chunks will have generated with the old seed (at least around the spawn or where anyone has logged in and gone to) but this is optional (just make sure you close the server first if you try to remove the world folder). All new chunks will generate with the seed in server.properties after a restart!
Once you’ve finished making changes press Ctrl+X to save and then answer “y” to the prompt to save your changes (if you used nano, if you used the GUI just choose save from the menus). Hopefully that helps and have fun!
Perfect, Thankyou
Well done James – thanks so much for doing this.
Hi James, Thanks for the script. I had this running on Ubuntu 18.04 for ages and it worked perfectly. Upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 and I can no longer start the service. Re-running the original script doesn’t work either. Thoughts? Here is the error:
● BedrockServer.service - BedrockServer Minecraft Bedrock ServerLoaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/BedrockServer.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2021-03-06 08:52:46 NZDT; 10s ago
Process: 309975 ExecStartPre=/bin/chown -R admin /home/admin/minecraftbe/BedrockServer (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 309988 ExecStart=/bin/bash /home/admin/minecraftbe/BedrockServer/start.sh (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 310066 ExecStop=/bin/bash /home/admin/minecraftbe/BedrockServer/stop.sh (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Mar 06 08:52:41 srv01 bash[310009]: 250K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 72.1M
Mar 06 08:52:41 srv01 bash[310009]: 300K .. 5556G=0.04s
Mar 06 08:52:41 srv01 bash[310009]: 2021-03-06 08:52:41 (8.33 MB/s) - ‘downloads/version.html’ saved [310183]
Mar 06 08:52:41 srv01 bash[309988]: Minecraft Bedrock server is up to date...
Mar 06 08:52:41 srv01 bash[309988]: Starting Minecraft server. To view window type screen -r BedrockServer
Mar 06 08:52:41 srv01 bash[309988]: To minimize the window and let the server run in the background, press Ctrl+A then Ctrl+D
Mar 06 08:52:41 srv01 systemd[1]: Started BedrockServer Minecraft Bedrock Server.
Mar 06 08:52:46 srv01 bash[310066]: Server is not currently running!
Mar 06 08:52:46 srv01 systemd[1]: BedrockServer.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 06 08:52:46 srv01 systemd[1]: BedrockServer.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Hey Pete,
I would try removing the service and rerunning the script completely. This can be done with:
sudo rm -rf /etc/systemd/system/BedrockServer.servicesudo systemctl daemon-reload
You can also try running the service yourself and see what happens with:
sudo systemctl start BedrockServerThis may yield an error message that may be helpful. It may also be possible that after your upgrade you just need to reload the daemons with the command:
sudo systemctl daemon-reloadCan you give those three things a try? This should help us narrow down what is going wrong here!
Hi, just wanted to jump in and mention that I had the exact same error a week or so after my initial setup and deleting the .service file and rerunning the script fixed the issue.
thank you!
Yves
Hey Yves,
Glad it helped! Thanks for letting us know and take care!