docker-minecraft-server VS factorio-docker

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.

I got the new DS224+ which comes with an Intel processor so it seems like the perfect server setup. I just started looking into this but this docker image seems perfect. Now DSM has changed it's docker app name to "Container Manager" which was the first hurdle I had to get over. Now I need to figure out how to setup the config for the docker image and setup a secure server that's exposed to the outside. (I got a unifi network running.) Anyone done this yet? Any pointers?

In the end my Factorio server ended up running bare metal just because it was easier, so I might not be the right person to answer that. :) I just did https://github.com/factoriotools/factorio-docker before I tore it down, basically.

I am running a factorio server via the docker image from https://github.com/factoriotools/factorio-docker. Running the server, setting up mods and running a custom save all work fine.

There already exist Docker images for factorio servers, enabling one-click download, installation and running of a server. https://hub.docker.com/r/factoriotools/factorio

Update... I used the container found here and modified the docker-compose file to set QEMU_EXECVE=1 in the environment variables. Assuming you have the qemu-user-static package installed, this will utilize QEMU user space emulation for the container. Works fine so far, no checksum issues. No idea how fast it is though compared to box64. I'm also on the oracle cloud ARM box you have.

How long until Steam auto-updates generally? There's already a new image on factoriotools and I updated my server but haven't gotten the update on steam yet, so now they're out of sync.

And here's where the image is (with instructions and all): https://github.com/factoriotools/factorio-docker.

Almost just plug-and-play.