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title: Minecraft Server on Docker ⛏ 🐳 date: 2022-05-24T09:33:35+01:00 author: "ahmza" draft: true weight:
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Introduction
Minecraft is a great game and when it comes to multiplayer a dedicated server is the way to go. To name a few features you can customise the server properties, make use of the whitelist as well as include a curated set of mods. Myself and a few others recently decided to start playing this wonderful game again and I took the opportunity to deploy a server in my lab. As of writing this we have began the hunt for ender pearls !!
A Minecraft server does not require a ton of resources to run However from my experience the more resources you can throw at it the better especially when you start to introduce mods and more than 10 players.
I run our server on my main PC within WSL and Docker. This allows me to leverage the system resources in my PC 🦾 leaving the Pi Cluster to handle the rest of the stuff in my lab. The only reason I opted to go this route is because I don't want our server to be limited by hardware resources as well as the Minecraft server effecting the overall performance of the Pis