Minecraft Server Docker Image

A fully-featured, containerized Minecraft server environment built with Docker. This project provides an easy-to-deploy Minecraft server with SSH access, tmux session management, and built-in system monitoring tools. Perfect for hosting multiplayer Minecraft servers with minimal setup and maximum flexibility.

Most Updated Version

The most updated version currently is for Minecraft 1.21.11.

Prerequisites

Before using the Minecraft Server Docker Image, ensure that you have the following:

1. Docker: The program requires Docker to be installed on your system.
2. Git (for cloning the repository).

Setup the Server

All instructions should be executed on the client/host machine

• Build the docker image using docker compose build
• Start a docker container using the image docker compose up

Starting and Stopping the Server

All instructions should be executed inside the directory /home/mcadmin/minecraft_server

• To start the server run ./start_minecraft_server which will create a tmux session containing the server console and an htop interface to monitor the system performance
• To stop the server run ./stop_minecraft_server which will gracefully stop the minecraft server and kill the tmux session

Configuring the Server

All instructions should be executed inside the directory /home/mcadmin/minecraft_server

• You can configure settings in the server.properties file
  • Make sure to change the rcon password to something more secure, by default it's mcadmin

Credits & Licenses

This project uses the following third-party tools:

• rcon-cli - Created by itzg, licensed under the Apache License 2.0.