Minecraft Server in Docker - How to Setup/Backup/Restore your Minecraft Server

A friend of mine wanted me to create a Minecraft server for his kids to play on so I figured I'd give it a shot. It was honestly easier than I expected and even added a process to backup and restore if needed.

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0:00 Intro
1:20 My Setup
3:20 Let's get started
10:00 Run the container
11:31 Plugins
12:26 Connect to your server
13:39 Access your Minecraft server's cli
14:54 Automatically backup your world
20:02 Restore from a backup
23:43 Conclusion

[neo]

I'm new with docker but your demo was very helpful and easy to understand, thank you very much !

[meatpixel]

Thank you. You are the only place I was able to find out how to access the server command line in docker.

[chumakov]

As someone who si really new in having a home server, I learned a lot with this video. Thank you

[dustind]

Thanks... I'm running this on an Orange pi5. My kids are stoked!

[xfourfive]

if you specify a filepath instead of a volume, will the script fail? I don't currently have a volume setup for the server I am running

[gabezerbe]

Hey this might be a dumb question but when trying to install plugins I'm getting an mc-image-helper error saying "Failed to sync and interpolate /plugins into /data/plugins : plugins/plugin-name.jar"

Is there anything I need to do with folder/file permissions to make sure this works properly?

[everettcass]

I have an issue with my docker minecraft server that has plugins, specifically with EssentialsX, it doesn't save any warps that I setup on a restart, it says it saves in a .tmp file when I create the warp but upon restart or reload, that file seems to get deleted because the warps set disappear

[OschannelDotCom]

Great Content.. Keep up the good work..I'm gonna try this for sure ..

[GrahamMessadieh]

Is there a way to connect to the server off network and on consoles?

[furimushi]

Hi, I want to add voice chat mod where it needs to use port 24454 upd. How do I config that?

[freakshowboy]

when the script backup the server, does it create the backup while the server is live or during reboot? if live, i believe it can create issues with the server map files

[waltergamer]

One question you have do one or two volumes because of plugins

[HecUnderscore]

if you're using plugins, i would recommend NOT using Bukkit, instead use either Paper or Spigot. Spigot is based on Bukkit and provides better plugin support than Bukkit, and Paper is a more optimized version of Spigot.

also, if you set EXEC_DIRECTLY=true as an environment variable and enable tty and stdin_open support, you can instead attach to the server (docker attach {container} or click the attach button in portainer) and get a more useful console.

[gannonbest]

Thank you I'm using pterodactyl and couldn't figure out how to access my minecraft folders to change mod configs appreciate you

[MrAdamseslar]

How do you go about making this multiplayer as in someone outside of your home playing?

[josejoelramostanca]

Me indica error con el servidor pero por no poder verificar el nombre de usuario, como se puede configurar esa parte?

[romeo]

How would the performance be in a windows docker system with 4gb ram capacity? My users connect via their nintendo switch or ios. Is bedrock server system still available today?

[iamabes]

This is great stuff, thank you for this. Clearest explanation I've found yet. Any thoughts on how to extend this to backing up multiple Minecraft server containers, and how to add steps to stop the containers before backing up, and then resuming them once the backups are complete?

[MR.Peanut]

Don’t know if someone else asked but how do we make a modded server?

[couzin]

well, I get errors in the yaml text when I try to start it up... not happy with this.