It’s finally here! Minecraft 1.17 – Caves & Cliffs Part 1 released on June 8, 2021. As mentioned in my previous post, we’ve quickly rerolled the server to a new…Continue readingMinecraft 1.17 Server Up!
Minecraft 1.17 – Caves and Cliffs Part 1 was released on June 8, 2021. Our world on 1.16 had largely been explored in the Overworld, Nether and The End. We…Continue readingMinecraft 1.16 – That’s a Wrap!
Since setting up the original Minecraft server on Google Cloud Platform, I’ve been constantly trying to find ways to lower the monthly cost. A 10 user Minecraft Realms server can…Continue readingNew LinuxTek Minecraft Hosted Servers
For the last few years, I’ve been running many of my on-premise services in VMWare ESXi virtual machines. Since around 2013, I’ve been using an AMD FX-8350 processor, 16-24GB RAM…Continue readingNew On-Premise Server
Yesterday I added the Dynmap-3.1-beta4 plugin to the server. This is the first version of Dynmap to support Minecraft and PaperMC 1.16.3. This plugin allows you to generate a map…Continue readingDynmap Plugin Added
September is the first full month we’ve been running the Minecraft server on Google Cloud, and the first chance to see what it would cost in total. It was a…Continue readingGoogle Cloud Bill – September 2020
After reviewing multiple documents about setting up Minecraft, including the Google Cloud guide, and the A Cloud Guru series I previously mentioned, I tweaked my system to start Minecraft as…Continue readingDaemonizing and World Backups
I’ve made quite a few changes to the server over the past few days. The main change is that I’ve switched from using the Minecraft Vanilla binary to Paper MC.…Continue readingServer Updates
On this Minecraft Admin page, I intend to journal some of the tools and utilities I use or develop to manage a Minecraft server. Currently we are running Minecraft Java…Continue readingWelcome!