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”
Eric
Hi James, its me again, and I wanted to ask you if it was possible to enable holiday creator features without losing your current world, and if so, how should I go about doing it. Also, is it even safe to do so?
It has been a while since anyone tried to do this but it’s really hard with the marketplace based content. Check out this thread here.
They tried to do this and we found out there are a *lot* of additional restrictions on the marketplace resource packs. Also see this thread which is more recent where I touched on this a little bit.
In the past the best chance to have it work is that you have to apply the patch in single-player (meaning you’d have to move your world back to single-player, apply the pack, and then move it back to your dedicated server). This enables the pack in your server files.
Next every single player has to individually log into the marketplace and download that pack from the marketplace. The server will not distribute the marketplace packs (unless this one is specially marked unrestricted). Everyone has to have it properly installed on their account in the marketplace individually and on their client for it to work. There have been a few people that have done all of those steps and got it to work.
It’s one of the hardest things you can do though. I just wanted to give an overview of what it looks like. If you’d like to try it I can definitely try to assist as you run into problems but it is a tough one. Hopefully that helps!
James,
I just wanted to say a HUGE thank you for doing this. My son has been desperate for a Minecraft server for him and his friends. Some googling led me here. So easy to use I had the server up in 10 minutes! Running in my AWS account on an Ubuntu EC2 image.
Excellent, that’s what I’ve always strived to have the project do (and it took quite a while for it to actually get there). I’m also using AWS to host this site (Lightsail) running Ubuntu Server so that’s not too distant of a cousin configuration!
Any luck running this on the free Oracle arm VM? I spun one up and managed to get this to launch. Sadly I can’t seem to connect to it from outside the Oracle Ubuntu VM, despite following the port opening instructions in the oracle Minecraft server guide. Ubuntu 20.04 server didn’t seem to have a firewall running at all, so I’m not sure what the problem is.
Wow, that’s an interesting idea. So theoretically yes that should work. As far as I know nobody has really tried to run it on ARM outside of Raspberry Pis basically. The Oracle ARM VM could be much more powerful theoretically (and probably is than a Pi, even running on a local VM but I’m guessing this is one of the free cloud instances). ARM emulation is quite slow on the Pi but we’ve had a bunch of reports here in the comments that people got it working to a satisfactory speed for their purposes. I’m hoping the next major Pi version will be powerful/fast enough for “everyone” basically.
The only guides I can see for setting this up though are for Java Minecraft which uses different ports. I’ve never even heard of a Bedrock one before but I’ve said in the past it’s theoretically possible. Which ports are you trying to use? The Bedrock edition of Minecraft (the one from the Windows Store, or on Android/iOS/Xbox/Playstation/Switch/etc.) uses 19132 and 19133 by default. I’m guessing you are using Java ports like 25565 which won’t work with this one.
Can you confirm? If this really is Bedrock then I would try changing the default ports *off* of 19132 and to something customized and make sure those are forwarded/opened to the VM. If you do need the Java version of the server it works almost identically and is available here so you may just be able to swap: Raspberry Pi Minecraft Server Setup Script w/ Startup Service. You can ignore the “Raspberry Pi 4” part as that is how it was marketed but this one runs on Pi too and that one should run as well just as easily. Hopefully that helps!
Thanks for the tutorial. I did not set my ubuntu server with the one-liner, but rather manually. Server is running well and I appreciate your information.
There are couple of things that have me a bit confused about this whole Minecraft Bedrock Server things, perhaps you can suggest or help…. Specifically around plugins / addons etc.
Bedrock Edition is the same a Pocket Edition I assume, and does that mean that addons and plugins are interchangeable?
Are the various plugins floating around the Internet for the Windows Bedrock Server version compatible with this Linux version if installed correctly?
This is all because I need to find away to prevent grief and to enable land claims so I can open up the server to my kids, family and friends. Any suggestions or proven tools for us Linux Bedrock Server admins?
It’s quite difficult to mod the Bedrock dedicated server (with “plugins” like a lot of Java servers have) but you do have some options. I’ve covered it some here on the site and in comments. Here’s probably one of the bigger ones I’ve wrote on it but if you type “mods” in the comment search box (above this post at the top of comments section) I do have some more.
Something like a land claim would be a piece of cake in Java. There would probably be dozens of choices of server plugins for Java that do it. I’m not sure it’s even possible (it’s definitely theoretically possible but whether anyone has packaged an easy way to do it is the question) in Bedrock without using a custom server (i.e. not vanilla / official). This is mostly because Bedrock has the “Marketplace” from Microsoft where you buy stuff. The Bedrock server does actually support these but you need to import them from the single player client into the server and all clients must have them installed.
Now for the good news: the answer to whether the Windows dedicated server mods out there should work the answer is yes. I believe what you are referring to is “behavior packs” and “resource packs”. These are definitely supported. It’s more limited than what you can do with “plugins” like the Java servers have but yes these are absolutely supported. I even have a guide on how to set up the resource packs so that your dedicated server will distribute them here: Minecraft Bedrock Dedicated Server Resource Pack / RTX Guide
These files are basically just .zip files (fun fact: you can rename a .mcpack file to a .zip file and open it with Winzip or any compression tool, it’s literally a renamed zip file) that contain different art/sounds/etc. for the game.
Basically I think you won’t have any problem installing any of the available mods on there. They are just zip files sent to the client. Resource packs even get loaded by the Android version when you set it up that way. I think you will have a much more difficult time with the land claim part because that is more of the server-side scripting area which is where the Bedrock server’s capabilities are very poor.
If you are seeing one that they somehow figured out how to make this work with Bedrock (it’s theoretically possible but it wouldn’t be easy to make, games like Valheim though have been greatly enhanced by client mods that extend the server’s capabilities beyond anything the developers ever coded) it will definitely work fine. The server does not load resource pack files or care about them (it does load behavior packs as those contain monster instructions). Most of that data though the server does not care about at all and it is just passed on to the clients.
Since behavior and resource packs are an officially supported feature they work on all platforms independently as far as I’ve seen. The only exception I’ve seen is that RTX lighting enabled resource packs won’t have RTX features on Android or consoles or anything other than PC but that is to be expected as a RTX capable GPU is required for those. You should be good to go if you’re finding mods packaged and distributed as these packs.
Hopefully that helps, definitely let me know if I can clarify anything further!
I updated my server, and when I do a: sudo ./start.sh it goes through its worlds/Bedrock level files and then stops and hangs at: Checking for the latest version of Minecraft bedrock server …
Only thing I can do is a ctr-c to break out of it. What maybe wrong?
I would try running SetupMinecraft.sh again (unless this is right after doing it). If this is right after doing it can you try running the fixpermissions.sh script in your server folder? You can run it by going to your server folder and doing:
./fixpermissions.sh
I might be misremembering the exact name of the permissions fix script but you should definitely see it in there. If that still isn’t working we probably need to take a look at the log files in your Minecraft folder. Let me know what you find and I can definitely help further!
Hey, when I try to connect to the server Minecraft is stuck on locating server but in the logs it says my account has connected, Minecraft can get the ping and sees the server is active. I’m not sure what is happening. thanks
It could be crashing. You may want to check the minecraft logs folder and see if anything is in there. It can also be from extreme lag. Are you running it on a Pi? If so then it’s pretty laggy and slow and that’s normal. Hopefully that helps!
Hi James, its me again, and I wanted to ask you if it was possible to enable holiday creator features without losing your current world, and if so, how should I go about doing it. Also, is it even safe to do so?
Hey Eric,
It has been a while since anyone tried to do this but it’s really hard with the marketplace based content. Check out this thread here.
They tried to do this and we found out there are a *lot* of additional restrictions on the marketplace resource packs. Also see this thread which is more recent where I touched on this a little bit.
In the past the best chance to have it work is that you have to apply the patch in single-player (meaning you’d have to move your world back to single-player, apply the pack, and then move it back to your dedicated server). This enables the pack in your server files.
Next every single player has to individually log into the marketplace and download that pack from the marketplace. The server will not distribute the marketplace packs (unless this one is specially marked unrestricted). Everyone has to have it properly installed on their account in the marketplace individually and on their client for it to work. There have been a few people that have done all of those steps and got it to work.
It’s one of the hardest things you can do though. I just wanted to give an overview of what it looks like. If you’d like to try it I can definitely try to assist as you run into problems but it is a tough one. Hopefully that helps!
James,
I just wanted to say a HUGE thank you for doing this. My son has been desperate for a Minecraft server for him and his friends. Some googling led me here. So easy to use I had the server up in 10 minutes! Running in my AWS account on an Ubuntu EC2 image.
Thanks!
Jason
Hey Jason,
Excellent, that’s what I’ve always strived to have the project do (and it took quite a while for it to actually get there). I’m also using AWS to host this site (Lightsail) running Ubuntu Server so that’s not too distant of a cousin configuration!
Thanks for the kind words, enjoy and have fun!
Any luck running this on the free Oracle arm VM? I spun one up and managed to get this to launch. Sadly I can’t seem to connect to it from outside the Oracle Ubuntu VM, despite following the port opening instructions in the oracle Minecraft server guide. Ubuntu 20.04 server didn’t seem to have a firewall running at all, so I’m not sure what the problem is.
Hey Sean,
Wow, that’s an interesting idea. So theoretically yes that should work. As far as I know nobody has really tried to run it on ARM outside of Raspberry Pis basically. The Oracle ARM VM could be much more powerful theoretically (and probably is than a Pi, even running on a local VM but I’m guessing this is one of the free cloud instances). ARM emulation is quite slow on the Pi but we’ve had a bunch of reports here in the comments that people got it working to a satisfactory speed for their purposes. I’m hoping the next major Pi version will be powerful/fast enough for “everyone” basically.
The only guides I can see for setting this up though are for Java Minecraft which uses different ports. I’ve never even heard of a Bedrock one before but I’ve said in the past it’s theoretically possible. Which ports are you trying to use? The Bedrock edition of Minecraft (the one from the Windows Store, or on Android/iOS/Xbox/Playstation/Switch/etc.) uses 19132 and 19133 by default. I’m guessing you are using Java ports like 25565 which won’t work with this one.
Can you confirm? If this really is Bedrock then I would try changing the default ports *off* of 19132 and to something customized and make sure those are forwarded/opened to the VM. If you do need the Java version of the server it works almost identically and is available here so you may just be able to swap: Raspberry Pi Minecraft Server Setup Script w/ Startup Service. You can ignore the “Raspberry Pi 4” part as that is how it was marketed but this one runs on Pi too and that one should run as well just as easily. Hopefully that helps!
oh, I did just that with my server. You just need to configure VM’s security net.
You need TCP and UDP connections.
Hey James,
Thanks for the tutorial. I did not set my ubuntu server with the one-liner, but rather manually. Server is running well and I appreciate your information.
There are couple of things that have me a bit confused about this whole Minecraft Bedrock Server things, perhaps you can suggest or help…. Specifically around plugins / addons etc.
Bedrock Edition is the same a Pocket Edition I assume, and does that mean that addons and plugins are interchangeable?
Are the various plugins floating around the Internet for the Windows Bedrock Server version compatible with this Linux version if installed correctly?
This is all because I need to find away to prevent grief and to enable land claims so I can open up the server to my kids, family and friends. Any suggestions or proven tools for us Linux Bedrock Server admins?
Appreciate your time.
Hey Jayson,
It’s quite difficult to mod the Bedrock dedicated server (with “plugins” like a lot of Java servers have) but you do have some options. I’ve covered it some here on the site and in comments. Here’s probably one of the bigger ones I’ve wrote on it but if you type “mods” in the comment search box (above this post at the top of comments section) I do have some more.
Something like a land claim would be a piece of cake in Java. There would probably be dozens of choices of server plugins for Java that do it. I’m not sure it’s even possible (it’s definitely theoretically possible but whether anyone has packaged an easy way to do it is the question) in Bedrock without using a custom server (i.e. not vanilla / official). This is mostly because Bedrock has the “Marketplace” from Microsoft where you buy stuff. The Bedrock server does actually support these but you need to import them from the single player client into the server and all clients must have them installed.
Now for the good news: the answer to whether the Windows dedicated server mods out there should work the answer is yes. I believe what you are referring to is “behavior packs” and “resource packs”. These are definitely supported. It’s more limited than what you can do with “plugins” like the Java servers have but yes these are absolutely supported. I even have a guide on how to set up the resource packs so that your dedicated server will distribute them here: Minecraft Bedrock Dedicated Server Resource Pack / RTX Guide
These files are basically just .zip files (fun fact: you can rename a .mcpack file to a .zip file and open it with Winzip or any compression tool, it’s literally a renamed zip file) that contain different art/sounds/etc. for the game.
Basically I think you won’t have any problem installing any of the available mods on there. They are just zip files sent to the client. Resource packs even get loaded by the Android version when you set it up that way. I think you will have a much more difficult time with the land claim part because that is more of the server-side scripting area which is where the Bedrock server’s capabilities are very poor.
If you are seeing one that they somehow figured out how to make this work with Bedrock (it’s theoretically possible but it wouldn’t be easy to make, games like Valheim though have been greatly enhanced by client mods that extend the server’s capabilities beyond anything the developers ever coded) it will definitely work fine. The server does not load resource pack files or care about them (it does load behavior packs as those contain monster instructions). Most of that data though the server does not care about at all and it is just passed on to the clients.
Since behavior and resource packs are an officially supported feature they work on all platforms independently as far as I’ve seen. The only exception I’ve seen is that RTX lighting enabled resource packs won’t have RTX features on Android or consoles or anything other than PC but that is to be expected as a RTX capable GPU is required for those. You should be good to go if you’re finding mods packaged and distributed as these packs.
Hopefully that helps, definitely let me know if I can clarify anything further!
how do you do minecraft commands?
Edit: nvm, the command was screen -r (folder). this thing is so good man. Thank you!!! Everything works great and now I can control cmds on a diff pc
Hey Airijko,
Congratulations, I’m glad you were able to get it going, enjoy and have fun!
I updated my server, and when I do a: sudo ./start.sh it goes through its worlds/Bedrock level files and then stops and hangs at: Checking for the latest version of Minecraft bedrock server …
Only thing I can do is a ctr-c to break out of it. What maybe wrong?
Hey RugbyBall,
I would try running SetupMinecraft.sh again (unless this is right after doing it). If this is right after doing it can you try running the fixpermissions.sh script in your server folder? You can run it by going to your server folder and doing:
./fixpermissions.shI might be misremembering the exact name of the permissions fix script but you should definitely see it in there. If that still isn’t working we probably need to take a look at the log files in your Minecraft folder. Let me know what you find and I can definitely help further!
Hey, when I try to connect to the server Minecraft is stuck on locating server but in the logs it says my account has connected, Minecraft can get the ping and sees the server is active. I’m not sure what is happening. thanks
Hey Alex,
It could be crashing. You may want to check the minecraft logs folder and see if anything is in there. It can also be from extreme lag. Are you running it on a Pi? If so then it’s pretty laggy and slow and that’s normal. Hopefully that helps!