Minecraft Java Edition and Bedrock Dedicated Server (BDS for short) systemd units and bash scripts for backups, automatic updates, installation, and shutdown warnings
Compatible with Ubuntu, Ubuntu on Windows 10 does not support systemd (Ubuntu Server 18.04 Setup). You can run the scripts without enabling the systemd units, except for MCBEautoUpdate.sh. No automatic update scripts for Java Edition.
How to attach to the systemd service's tmux session (server console):
sudo su mc -s /bin/bash
# Example: systemctl status mc@$instance
tmux -S "/tmp/tmux-mc/$instance" aPress Ctrl-B then D to detach from a tmux session. exit to switch back to previous user.
Backups are in ~mc by default. systemctl status mc-backup@MC mcbe-backup@MCBE says the last backup's location. Outdated bedrock-server ZIPs in ~mc will be removed by MCBEgetZIP.sh. MCBEupdate.sh only keeps packs, worlds, whitelist, permissions, and properties. Other files will be removed. You cannot enable instances of Java Edition and Bedrock Edition with the same name (mc@example and mcbe@example).
Xbox One can only connect on LAN, Nintendo Switch cannot connect at all. Try jhead/phantom to work around this on Xbox One. Try ProfessorValko's Bedrock Dedicated Server Tutorial.
Open Terminal:
sudo apt install git tmux wget zip
git clone https://github.com/TapeWerm/MCscripts.git
cd MCscripts
sudo adduser --home /opt/MC --system mc
# I recommend replacing the 1st argument to ln with an external drive to dump backups on
# Example: sudo ln -s $ext_drive ~mc/backup_dir
sudo ln -s ~mc ~mc/backup_dirCopy and paste this block:
echo set -g default-shell /bin/bash | sudo tee ~mc/.tmux.conf
for file in $(ls *.sh); do sudo cp "$file" ~mc/; done
sudo chown -h mc:nogroup ~mc/*
for file in $(ls systemd); do sudo cp "systemd/$file" /etc/systemd/system/; doneStop the Minecraft server.
# Move server directory
sudo mv "$server_dir" ~mc/MC
# Open server.jar with no GUI and 1024-2048 MB of RAM
echo java -Xms1024M -Xmx2048M -jar server.jar nogui | sudo tee ~mc/MC/start.batCopy and paste this block:
sudo chmod 700 ~mc/MC/start.bat
sudo chown -R mc:nogroup ~mc/MC
sudo systemctl enable [email protected] --now
sudo systemctl enable [email protected] --nowIf you want to automatically remove backups more than 2-weeks-old to save storage:
sudo systemctl enable [email protected] --nowStop the Minecraft server.
# Move server directory or
sudo mv "$server_dir" ~mc/MCBE
# Make new server directory
sudo su mc -s /bin/bash
~/MCBEgetZIP.sh
exit
sudo ~mc/MCBEautoUpdate.sh ~mc/MCBECopy and paste this block:
sudo chown -R mc:nogroup ~mc/MCBE
sudo systemctl enable [email protected] --now
sudo systemctl enable [email protected] --now
sudo systemctl enable mcbe-getzip.timer --now
sudo systemctl enable [email protected] --nowIf you want to automatically remove backups more than 2-weeks-old to save storage:
sudo systemctl enable [email protected] --now