RaspberryPiMinecraft VS docker-minecraft-server

I’m running a Minecraft server on my opi5 and it works like a charm. I followed this guide. Before I had a raspi4 and it worked okay but on the opi5 it’s tremendously faster!

i agree with everything u/~defron~ has mentioned so far. I'd like to add a bit more to the whole OS thing. Windows is a straight no go, unstable, bloated, memory hog, the list goes on. As for linux, there are plenty of choices, although options like UnRaid/Truenas/OpenMediaVault all are great aesthetically wise, gui for managing your users, permissions, storage, containers you will generally always find yourself limited by them at one point or another, especially with the use case you described. Something like ubuntu with mergerfs and snapraid and a samba share took me around 20 minutes to configure. Vallheilm i've not had experience with but after 2 minutes of googling i found this. Minecraft on the other hand is incredibly easy to set up, if you take a look at this repository you can have a paper minecraft server with one command install that auto updates and sets it up for you within 2 minutes. For power saving I'd recommend you set up a systemd script to set powertop --auto-tune to autostart on boot and use hdparm to set hdd sleep time. With all drives spun down I get around 10W idle on ubuntu and around 18W on TrueNAS. ZFS is great, but i don't see it's use for a personal home build. As for your discord scripts, since you mentioned you use docker profesionally, i don't see why you couldn't just make a dockerfile for each bot and run them as containers.

You can follow this guide to set it up.

Easiest way is to just make an Ubuntu VM and past this script.

I also have a script available that has done this for many years: https://github.com/TheRemote/RaspberryPiMinecraft

What game server are you trying to run using pterodactyl. If it's minecraft, you can use a simple bash script like this https://github.com/TheRemote/RaspberryPiMinecraft .

Paper actually won't work with OpenJDK 18. This is a big headache for my Raspberry Pi Minecraft Paper Minecraft Server Script which has to download a copy of OpenJDK 17 locally to solve this problem.

Looks nice! I have a comprehensive docker compose file with itzg’s image [0] repeated a dozen times.

[0] https://github.com/itzg/docker-minecraft-server

This is just from a quick search: https://github.com/itzg/docker-minecraft-server

I'd like something like this that works with the itzg docker image. I usually have 2-3 servers up and running at any given time for me and my kids to play on. Different modpacks, haven't done anything fancy to manage them except portainer.

I have a nephew who loves minecraft (my fault, I introduced it to him). He plays it on PS4 - which I don't have - and he would like to play it together with me. I live a few thousand kilometers away, so I thought I'd host a server he can join to.I decided to host the server via docker, using itgz's repo. The server is unauthenticated and is exposed to the internet, I can join to it using my java instance.

I think that a better option would be to use https://github.com/itzg/docker-minecraft-server and then use a networking solution like tailscale or equivalent.

using itzg/docker-minecraft-server to host a curseforge modded server that's running all the mods 8 mod pack, though I might look into pterodactyl for future use!

I'm aware of itzg/docker-minecraft-server: Docker image that provides a Minecraft Server that will automatically download selected version at startup (github.com) which makes things pretty easy, but getting any modpack to work still requires quite a bit of fiddling with environment variables (mods to exclude on the server, java version, mc version, enabling command block, etc). Is there something easier, which doesn't require me to search through issues to find working configurations?

Also, as somebody already mentioned, you could run server in a Docker container. I quickly found this: https://hub.docker.com/r/itzg/minecraft-server. You could look into it. For this you will have to setup Docker, but it should be pretty easy (install and add user to group, check Arch wiki). Docker then creates a small "VM" (without kernel) in which Java is installed to run the server itself.

Server is running latest version of PaperMC using the itzg/docker-minecraft-server image on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Ports 8123 and 25565 of the container are exposed. Dynmap with LiveAtlas is installed in the server's /plugins/ directory and can be accessed through [server IP]:8123.