aidantwoods/minecraft-server-kit

Minecraft-Server-Kit

A dirt-simple kit to update to the latest minecraft server .jar, and run in a Docker container.

Usage

Requirements

• Docker

Installation

git clone https://github.com/aidantwoods/Minecraft-Server-Kit mc-server
docker build -t mc-server mc-server/

Updating

The minecraft server executable is downloaded as part of the image build process. To update simply rebuild the image (ignoring the cache from the previous build).

docker build --no-cache -t mc-server mc-server/

Start the server

Mount your minecraft world folder into /world and map the desired port (minecraft default is 25565).

Assuming you have a minecraft world in ~/minecraft-world, then you would use the following:

docker run --rm -it -v ~/minecraft-world:/world -p 25565:25565 mc-server

If you want to start a new world, you need to include the file eula.txt with contents eula=true in the (empty) world folder to accept the minecraft EULA.

Remember that when mounting folders into a Docker container, the fully qualified path (not relative) must be given. You may need to use $(pwd) in your path to substitute the current working directory when using the docker run command.