r/GirlGamers • u/PinkPixie9 • 13h ago
Request Creating my own Java Minecraft server?
sooooo I need some help? I do some *light* gaming and want to set up a java Minecraft server from my PC for my 5-6 friends to play on. But all the "tutorials" I can find are super confusing or demeaning when you ask questing at all. I would love love love some help if anyone has any advice or tips and tricks! I already have my mod pack built through Curseforge. TYIA !! <<33
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u/AlexisHadden 13h ago
It might help to know where you are coming from in terms of tech savvy? Setting up a server yourself, especially when adding mods, is still a pretty technical endeavor. Hosting services do make some of it easier, to a point. Hosting it yourself is cheaper but also harder.
If you are determined to do it yourself, I’m partial to using a docker container like itzg’s (link below to the docs) which has a lot of users and a discord server, and so is better documented than most. It does mean playing with Docker Desktop on your PC to start/stop it. So it can still be a fair bit of work. But the container helps handle a bunch of things such as downloading the mod loader, the mod pack and so on. So it might be worth a try. But there’s also the networking side of how your friends will connect to the server. If you need to expose this to the world, then things get a bit more complicated. And I will warn you that you’d also need to configure an allow list of users to avoid griefing by people running bots looking for unsecured servers.
https://docker-minecraft-server.readthedocs.io/en/latest/