Posts tagged: minecraft Archive

minecraft server memory

2025-12-10T08:46:36Z

I learned to today that setting MEMORY on your minecraft server causes the JVM to egregiously allocate all of that memory. Not setting it causes slow downs and potential crashes, but setting INIT_MEMORY and MAX_MEMORY gives us the best of both worlds. It is allowed to use more, but does not gobble it all up on startup.

In this economy we need to save all the memory we can!

Here is a non-working snippet for a minecraft server deployment in kubernetes.

      containers:
        - name: dungeon
          image: itzg/minecraft-server
          env:
            - name: EULA
              value: "true"
            - name: INIT_MEMORY
              value: "512M"
            - name: MAX_MEMORY
              value: "3G"

and in docker compose

  dungeon:
    image: itzg/minecraft-server
    environment:
      EULA: "true"
      INIT_MEMORY: "512M"
      MAX_MEMORY: "3G"

💭 I refuse to change the way I play… 😂🔥 #comedy #videogames #min...

2025-11-02T16:12:02Z

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Microsoft has been addding features to Minecraft for over 10 years now. Idk if there was momentum from the mojang theme, but we’ve barely paid attention to any updates in the last five years. The ocean update was huge, caves and cliffs were huge then it trailed off to we play each release on release day, use commands to try out new features, then never touch them again either to play minecraft as we always have or to play a modded pack with crazy new features that really make an impact on gameplay.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

Funk Track 1

2025-09-21T15:52:07Z

funk-track-1-1080p.mp4

Progress so far on the Funk server elytra track. It goes through two sea lanturn lit caves so far.

💭 FROGS ep1 The home - YouTube

2025-06-17T13:08:54Z

Wyatt built out this full world to start making a film series about FROGS. The entire set it built on a flat world, but yet feels so immersive.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

wondercraft session one

2025-01-13T15:06:46Z

My son and I are starting a new Minecraft server today called wondercraft.

setup #

We are running a few mods on this server notably FTB Ultimine for less grindy resource gathering, Sodium for shaders, and Universal Shops.

We are runninng on Minecraft 1.20.1, I think this is because it was the latest supported by Universal Shops, its at least one major release old at this point.

I grabbed a few shaders, the ones that you see in this post are rethinking voxels.

spawn #

We initially spawned in a plains biome near an acacia and forest biome. We ended up going straight for the forest, only coming back for some sheep and wheat seeds.

Night one Zombie fight #

On the first night we had the obligitory zombie fight before getting beds and bases set.

Salmon Wrangler #

I was the designated food provider. I setup a small wheat farm with about 64 seeds, then went out to hunt down some salmon for the immediate food need. I ended up with about a stack of salmon at the end of the session.

Setting up Shop #

So as mentioned above we are running a mod for shops called universal shops. This mod is new to me and my son wanted to run it inspired by watching hermitcraft. We both decided that diamonds were the goal currency, but we wanted to set up some shops early so we settled on Oak logs as the currency. My job was to setup food based shops while he set up ore based shops.

My earnings after the first day.

First Death #

I forgot that I turned my sound off for a call, got lost on the chase of the salmon and did not leave myself enough time to get to the top.

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Second Death #

Playing sloppy again I was walking around at night with only three hearts left. My son wanted me to check out his shop that he just built out and I got hit by a skelly on the way up, after the first hit I was sitting at 1 heart with no where to go.

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Third Death #

This one is just plain embarrasing, I was lost in the flow of hunting salmon again, not paying any attention. I came up for air, but didn’t even gie time for more than a couple bubbles to come back before diving back in and died almost instantly.

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Note to self #

Next time run Minecraft in full screen so you don’t dox your start menu.

💭 Teleport to coop partner | Hypixel Forums

2024-12-30T17:19:10Z

Teleport to coop partner

Hello, Is there a command where you can teleport to your coop partner? Or is it just this Follow button in chat? :)

Hypixel Forums · hypixel.net

/p warp will warp your party to your current server in hypixel skyblock

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 lonecraft

2024-03-07T14:20:48Z

This is the best tree I have ever built in minecraft. It took at least 4 stacks of logs and leaves despite what it looks like.

It is placed where Welscraft’s island in the hermitcraft season 10 seed, but on our own server we call lonecraft.

We started this server a few weeks after hermitcraft season 10 started, and play on it a few times per week. It has a pretty successful day one iron farm that took us way more than one day to complete, and the farm behind this is our first ever villager driven farm. Somehow potatoes got cross contaminated and now its pumping out potatoes and some bread, but no carrots or beat roots.

World Seed: 5103687417315433447

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 Formatting codes – Minecraft Wiki

2024-03-07T14:16:23Z

Formatting codes – Minecraft Wiki

Formatting codes (also known as color codes) add color and modifications to text in-game.

Minecraft Wiki · minecraft.wiki

Minecraft MOTD and server names have formatting codes so that you can get colors, bold, underlined, italics, in your message of the day or server name. See the article for all the cods.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 Minecraft Server on Docker (Java Edition)

2023-12-25T16:45:59Z

Intro - Minecraft Server on Docker (Java Edition)

Documentation for Minecraft Server on Docker

docker-minecraft-server.readthedocs.io

I just learned that if you can exec into the container running minecraft with the itzg/minecraft container you can run rcon-cli to get command access to the server. You need to set the RCON_PASSWORD if you want to access rcon remotely, but if you have not already done this and have access to the server you can just run rcon-cli when you are in.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

Underground Bases with Wyatt

2023-07-09T10:41:29Z

Playing minecraft with Wyatt today he started a server all on his own and had me join. All vanilla, only one rule, underground bases.

I spawned into the server and it was already night time. I gathered up some wood on my way down a tree, and was attacked by zombies before I could get any tools, so I ran up another tree and crafted a crafting table.

Now to follow the rules, it’s time to head underground to build my base.

I made a mistake and died, but look at this view from my respawn point.

Minecraft Doc Day 18

2022-12-22T13:38:54Z

A crows nest added atop the storage silo offers a high lookout.

Minecraft Doc Day 17

2022-12-21T13:38:54Z

Construction of a floating base begins on Day 16.

Minecraft Doc Day 12

2022-12-20T13:38:54Z

Farm animals gathered and penned on Day 12.

Minecraft Doc Day 12

2022-12-19T13:38:54Z

Beet and pumpkin farm plots prepared near the main base.

Minecraft Doc Day 11

2022-12-18T13:38:54Z

Standing on Wyatt’s freshly built dock overlooking the water.

Minecraft Doc Day 11

2022-12-17T13:38:54Z

Wyatt joins to conquer a zombie spawner and build a dock together.

Minecraft Doc Day 10

2022-12-16T13:38:54Z

Secret storage area built as part of a tiny base challenge on Day 9.

Minecraft Doc Day 9

2022-12-15T13:38:54Z

Early storage silo construction begins with terraforming and chest placement.

Minecraft Doc Day 8

2022-12-14T13:38:54Z

After leaving the world paused, a surprise death screen leads to a survival reset.

Minecraft Doc Day 7

2022-12-13T13:38:54Z

A newly constructed animal pen expands the farm.

Minecraft Doc Day 6

2022-12-12T13:38:54Z

End of Day 5 shows the finished perimeter fence and first animal pen.

Minecraft Doc Day 5

2022-12-11T13:38:54Z

Start of Day 5 with work on the perimeter fence and gathering resources.

Minecraft Doc Day 4

2022-12-10T13:38:54Z

Outer perimeter fence under construction around the base during Day 4.

Minecraft Doc Day 3

2022-12-09T13:38:54Z

The roofline of the base is complete and the tree farm is cleared for fresh oak and acacia saplings.

Minecraft Doc Day 2

2022-12-08T13:38:54Z

Sun setting over the fresh house frame as Day 2 brings sand collection for windows.

Minecraft Doc Day 1

2022-12-07T13:38:54Z

The wooden frame of the new house begins to take shape on Day 1.

Minecraft Doc Day 0

2022-12-06T13:38:54Z

Acacia biome spawn with trees and resources in a new hardcore world.

minecraft documentary

2022-12-06T13:38:54Z

This is my first time journaling a Minecraft hardcore world, my son Wyatt is also documenting his journey in a survival world on wyattbubbylee.com.

Day 0 #

init

I logged into a brand new hardcore world. I was welcomed by a great Acacia biome spawn full of resources. I quickly cut my first tree, crafted an axe and set out to find my first sheep. I was able to find enough sheep for a bed, several cows and pigs.

I crafted a set of wooden tools, and farmed out a wheat farm till my wooden hoed died at the shore of a nearby stream. I found a small stone outcropping in the side of a hill and harvested nearly a full stack of cobblestone from my first wooden pick.

I ended the first day by sleeping in my bed safe from mobs.

Achievements #

bed
furnace
stone
wheat farm

Day 1 #

Thoughout the course of day one I collected wood and started the framework for my new house.

Day 2 #

The sun sets over the new frame of my house on Day 1

Day two continued the framework of the house, and a bit of sand collection for windows. I was a bit late to bed and saw four mobs spawn on the journeymap before I made it in.

Day 3 #

end of day 2

On day three I completed the roofline of the base, gathered some wood, and cleared out all the grass in the tree farm. The tree farm has a fresh planting of oak and acacia trees in it.

Day 4 #

Thoughout day 4 I kept farming trees and creating my first outter perimeter fence made of oak.

end of day 3

Day 5 #

start of of day 5

On day 5 I completed the perimeter fence and worked on my first animal pen.

End of Day 5

Day 6 #

I completed another animal pen.

a new animal pen from day 6

Day 7 #

On day 7 I left the game paused and went to some meetings, I came back to a death screen 😥. I am not going out this way, I opened to lan with cheats and reset my gamemode to survival.

Day 8 #

I started a storage silo by doing some terraforming and placing down the first chests.

Day 9 #

On Day 9 I started a challenge from Wyatt to create a tiny base. I chose to make a secret storage area in the storage silo.

Day 10 #

On day 10 Wyatt joined me, he built a dock and I found a zombie spawner.

We conquered the Zombie Spawner

Standing on Wyatt’s new dock

Day 11 #

Wyatt planted some beets, and made space for pumpkins.

Day 12 #

On day 12 we gathered up some farm animals.

Day 13-15 #

Wyatt and I went spelunking in the caves for iron.

Day 16 #

Wyatt started his floating base

Day 17 #

On Day 18 I created the crows nest on top of the storage silo.

Modded Minecraft in Docker

2022-02-16T14:44:38Z

In my adventure to put more homelab in docker, I moved our modded minecraft setup to docker.

Getting Mods #

So far I have found all of our mods from curse forge. modpacks make getting multiple mods working together much easier, someone else has already vetted a pack of often times 100+ mods that all play well together. I have yet to get these working in docker, I will, but for not I just have individual mods.

download file #

under the hood docker is using wget to get the mod. The link you click on from curseforge will block wget. What I do is pop open the devtools (f12 in chrome), click on the network tab, click the download link on the web page, and watch the real link show up.

Docker-compose #

I am using docker compose, it makes the command much easier to start, and all the things needed stored in a file. I am not using compose to run multiple things, just for the simple start command.

Create a directory for your server and add the following to a docker-compose.yml file.

version: "3.8"

services:
  mc:
    container_name: walkercraft
    image: itzg/minecraft-server
    ports:
      - 25565:25565
    environment:
      EULA: "TRUE"
      TYPE: "FORGE"
      VERSION: 1.16.5
      MODS_FILE: /extras/mods.txt
      REMOVE_OLD_MODS: "true"
    tty: true
    stdin_open: true
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 25565:25565
    volumes:
      - ./minecraft-data:/data
      - ./mods.txt:/extras/mods.txt:ro

volumes:
  data:

mods.txt #

Once you have your mod file link from the network tab add them to a mods.txt file next to your docker-compose file.

https://media.forgecdn.net/files/3620/189/engineersdecor-1.16.5-1.1.16.jar

start your server #

Once you have made it this far starting the server is pretty simple.

docker compose up -d

kill your server #

If your still in the same directory, taking down the server should be pretty easy as well.

docker compose down

# if that does not work you can kill it
docker ps
# copy the id of your container
docker kill <id>

Running a Minecraft Server in Docker

2022-02-07T02:35:21Z

I’ve ran a Minecraft server at home since December 2017 for me and my son to play on. We start a brand new one somewhere between every day and every week. The older he gets the longer the server lasts.

In all these years, I’ve been popping open the command line and running the server manually, and even inside of Digital Ocean occasionally to play a more public server with a friend.

My buddy Nic has been sharing me some of his homelab setup, and it’s really got me to thinking about what I can run at home, and Dockerizing all the things. Today I found a really sweet github repo that had a minecraft server running in docker with a pretty incredible setup.

I ended up running the first thing in the Readme that included a volume mount. If you are going to run this container, I HIGHLY reccomend that you make sure that you have your world volume mounted, otherwise it will die with your docker container.

Docker Compose #

With the following stored as my docker-compose.yml in a brand new and otherwise empty directory I was ready to start the server for the night.

version: "3"

services:
  mc:
    container_name: walkercraft
    image: itzg/minecraft-server
    ports:
      - 25565:25565
    environment:
      EULA: "TRUE"
    tty: true
    stdin_open: true
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      # attach a directory relative to the directory containing this compose file
      - ./minecraft-data:/data

To start the server we open up the terminal in this directory and run the follwing command.

docker compose up -d

Once its up and running we can run commands on the server simply by attaching to it.

docker attach walkercraft

A few common commands we run in the server #

We play very casually most of the time so we will set keepInventory to true so that we do not loose our inventory when we die. Sometimes we also op ourselve so that we can toggle gamemode into creative.

# set the game to keep your inventory when you die.
/gamrule keepInventory true

# give everyone operater priveledges to they can run commands
/op @a

# give playername op
/op playername