*** COMMON QUESTIONS! *** "How do I update my server to a new version?" Check out this video over on Crafty Controller's KZfaq channel: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o5xyqdemnZuloIE.htmlsi=3xGiGqpVFnwzIglP "Can I install mods?" / "How do I install mods?" I don't really care about modded Minecraft all that much, so I don't have a ton of experience here. From what I understand, you'll need to run a forge server, which you should be able to do following this guide: wiki.craftycontrol.com/en/4/docs/Getting%20Started#installing-forge-via-crafty-creation-tool

Me who doesn't plan to make a Minecraft server: Hmmm yes interesting.

Hey that's us! Glad you're enjoying the software so far! 😊

You could use chunky to pre generate chunks to reduce lag spikes at playtime

Why am i watching this

Nice guide, thanks! Really liked the explanation of even obvious things! I personally would be interested in some video with explanation of all tricky staff related port forwarding and securing your private network when you doing the forwarding.

If youre actually making a public server, please set up a VLAN or a VxLAN and get an IP to the server through that and make sure its segmented differently than your home network.

My friend and I actually did this same thing with an HP ProDesk 600 G3 Mini about 2 weeks ago. We set it up to run Plex and a Minecraft Bedrock Server. The server has 16GB Ram, 1TB NVMe, and we upgraded the CPU to a i7-7700T. The CPU upgrade really helped. I then wrote a really nice Batch\Powershell script to run once a day that shuts down the Minecraft Server. Creates a ZIP backup of any world that is named with the current date and time it was made. It will then delete any backups older than 7 days. Then finally it restarts the Minecraft Server.

Great video, love that you touched on hardware, setting up the OS and CasaOS, all the way down to connecting and sharing with friends! Awesome and comprehensive

I have not seen such great quality tutorial in a long time

My sons (9yo&5yo) will think I’m some networking/Minecraft server genius now! Thank you!

earlier today i was thinking about starting another mc server for my friends on discord and this just magically pops up in my recommended. this is a life saver so i dont have to port forward. love ya!

Fantastic video!! One more BIOS change people should look for is anything that halts the startup if keyboard or VGA is missing. For a laptop, might even check BIOS for sleep options and disable sleeping when the laptop is closed.

For those who are using Debian 12.5 and up, for the terminal commands, I found that if I used sudo, the command wouldn't be 'found' but if I typed in the command as is without sudo, then it would work just fine.

Is Hardware Haven becoming more.... crafty?

Your original Minecraft server video is what got me into home labs, so thank you very much.

Quick note. For Debian 12, the initial GUI walked me through installing GRUB. I left the default values and it's working. Also, Debian 12 didn't come with the sudo command so I had to install it to get the command to run from a copy/paste. Overall great video, easy to follow!

Woah, this is gonna make my life so much easier! I've been doing things all through the terminal having to use screen sessions and stuff and it's such a pain. Thank you for showing this off!

I don’t plan on making minecraft servers but I can’t stop watching these videos because it’s so fascinating to see these little machines work. Something about them is so captivating to me.

Got the same pc. Stuffed in 32GB of RAM, 500GB Nvme, 500GB ssd and two old spinning rust drives for 2.5TB total storage. Proxmox with windows 10 VM for Valhiem/Dayz/Conan server (not all running at the same time). LMDE6 vm with a Radeon pro wx 3100 using pci passthrough for youtube on my tv and a PiHole LXC. Works pretty good!

I use playit with my pterodactyl server. I have loved the service so far, but some thing to consider is that it seems to be solely operated by one person so support for it can be spotty (through forums or discord). There was an issue a while back where their internal databases crashed when the person to fix it was out of town and had no access remotely, so if I'm not mistaken it took a day or two to fix. There's also the issue that as the service grows it might become a target for ddos attacks. Which with one person, it might be harder to anticipate and implement counter measures or mitigations for. I think I'll stick with playit, but if any of the issues mentioned is a big problem for you, ngrok is an alternative. Set up is a little more advanced than playit, but I imagine they are better staffed so support for issues will be quickly addressed.

Lets go, thank you ive been waiting for a new updated video like this. For about 3 years/ the last time you made one of these. All goes to you

honestly dude this video came out at the PERFECT time, Ive been looking to host a mc server with my community sometimes for gamenights and this is exactly what i need!

Hello, huge fan of your content! Just a quick tip, if people dont want to set static ip to the casaos, and don't want to meddle with the router settings to find the right ip, they can use advanced ip scanner, (portable or not doesnt matter), they can search the ip of the devices and most of the time it will write in the description what that ip is for. Its very easy to use and saves a lot of trouble!

On the subject of game servers, I'd love to see you talk about making an at home game server for game devs! I know there's cloud services like AWS or Linode but having your own personal server that you have complete control over seems like the best option. I've been trying to put together one but always end up getting stuck at making the server available to outside networks. Also helps for just small testing so I don't eat up my free trial of AWS too.

This is exactly what I was planning on doing!!! Even with an elitedesk hahah, I have been watching a lot of your videos that have been helping me to understand this things of self hosting!! Thank you in advance, I'll be doing this hopefully next month!

I've been using crafty since v3.0 and it's a very good a trusty panel for minecraft hosting

This was awesome. I'm trying to figure out how to do this for a long time. But now it's so much easier. I've never been good at port forwarding and tunnels and all that but now it seems like it's going to be so simple. I've got a bunch of kids that want to play Minecraft with my son so this will be perfect

Amazing. I was thinking of setting up a minecraft home server for my son. Great video, THANKS!!

I do not get a plugins folder when I make a server. When I make a plugins folder and out the playit plugin into that folder I do not see the playit URL.

Super impressed with how simple this whole process is, and how polished Casa and Crafty look! Been playing around with it today and I'm really happy with it, thanks man :)

DHCP Reserve Leases are always a good option. Same with Static IPs and if you static IP it make sure its outside the DHCP scope of your router.

You should use pterodactyl panel,because is also based on docker and is more complete

So very cool! Didn't even know about crafty controller...manually installed into docker...got it running...trying to install forge for my daughter...boy howdy is there ALOT to that install! Thanks so much for this...I have it running on a HP EliteDesk 705 G2 MINI w/ 8GB RAM and AMD PRO A8-8600B R6 4C+6G (4) @ 1.600GHz processor I got online from EBAY a while back for like $100~, and a 128GB SSD..runs Debian 12 like a boss! Keep em coming!!!!

Got this set up and it's working great! I've always wanted to run a server on linux with scheduled backups. Thanks for making this!

this is actually nice, since I already have a spare computer I commonly nickname "the server", gonna see if some of my friends are up to the idea of having a MC server again.

This channel really blew up since the last time I watched it, I followed the ubuntu server how to back when he had 45k subscribers 😂. Congrats on the 180k🎉

This came at a good time. I've hosted Minecraft servers before just with the basic way of doing it on Windows which is not hard. And recently, I added an Ubuntu virtual machine to my NAS and went through the process of running a Minecraft server in Ubuntu. Well it was going great but then I tried to VNC into my VM a few days later and the whole thing crashed, deleting the server entirely. And I have no idea what I'm doing in Ubuntu so I don't even know if it's recoverable. So yeah I think I'm going to keep my Ubuntu install but use CasaOS and Crafty, since that seems much easier and more my speed. Even following a tutorial, setting up a server via Ubuntu in the terminal was a nightmare.

Pretty in depth yet kinda requires some knowledge for safety reasons and error troubleshooting, I use LXC on my proxmox server which comes with prebuilt turnkey utilities yet I use vanilla base debian 10, 11 or even 12 for my servers and it naturally skips the installation process of debian and network configuring in terminal (etxc/network/interfaces). Like your tutorial and Crafty Controller is THE BEST Minecraft server panel and hosting method. 10/10

This is the best way to make a minecraft server. Thank you

I'm having an issue just after installing Debian 12: After the computer reboots and the Linux terminal should open, it instead an empty black screen with a flashing underscore in the top left shows. In the video there is much more information displayed there (11:10). No matter what I type in nothing ever happens. The only thing I've done differently than the tutorial is just before the end of Debian's installation when it prompted me to install GRUB and even after requesting it not to be installed it, installs anyway. Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this? Thanks.

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Literally inspired me to run a Minecraft server on my laptop that doesn't get much use anymore. Was trying to figure out how to make the server public because I didn't feel like setting up port forwarding. Now all my friends I totally have can play Minecraft on my server. Thanks Hardware Haven!

THANK YOU! Your old tutorial was fantastic and this one looks even better!

I have always liked mineos but this seems a lot more user friendly

i keep getting manifest unknown when trying to download crafty

Fyi. Your old TrueNAS videos really helped me stand up a new NAS. Thank you for your work.

Just got to say, what an amazing video!! I have a old Xeon E5 from aliexpress that i was not using and decided to create my server on it. For now on, I'll try to use it for every game that I play!

you look like you about to cry bruh

Pulled out an old dell xps after seeing this video. Halfway to setting up a mincraft server for my son and his friends!

Thank you for this video step by step. I saw crafty on your other videos and I installed it for some weeks now. It much easier than manage spigot building server. Thank for the discovery too.

You've quickly become one of my favorite KZfaqr's! Keep it up. Your content is interesting, well edited and informative!! I'm gonna look into this and see id something easy exists for setting up Valheim game server s in a similar fashion.

Straight up Thank you for this, after spending most of a Saturday trying to cut and paste Linux commands from various articles splattered throughout the internet trying to make a server for my two children to play on your video made all the difference now I have a reliable server that will restart after a power outage itself and also make a backup without any fuss. My only complaint is that home assistant run and docker form cannot do a lot of the add-ons I would like it to because I'd like to make this server multifaceted. you did a phenomenal job explaining and showing what needed to happen. Thanks again

WOW this video explains every thing so well i went from someone not knowing any thing about Minecraft servers to learning so much about them keep up the good work

Thank you so much for making an easier tutorial than your other one with the Compaq PC 🤝

just spent 5hrs making a vanilla server in ubuntu with just a terminal and permanently running in issues. youre a heaven sent angel

13:39 an alternate option if you don't want or can't access the router to fix the ip is just set to the server a static IP outside the range of DHCP but inside the subnet, usually the router only reservers something between 32 to 100 ips for the DHCP from the 253 availble ips (the 254th is the router, as gateway)

Whenn you play modded mc you can’t use plugins how can I play with my Friends then?

I come from AMP which is often called the easiest game panel but this one is for sure easier and straight forward! Nice video.

Excellent production quality. Fantastic topic and walk-through. Next project ideas! How about something on setting up your own, local ChatGPT instance via ollama?

You can just press enter rather than typing y to install packages because the y is uppercase

All these GUI tools are interesting, and I do respect the work put into them by the developers. But on the other hand, isn't it a lot simpler to learn how to navigate your way around the filesystem using a terminal, making the entire process a lot shorter and, in a way, more convenient? Especially for a project that is DIY and self-hosting oriented, it's important to learn a little bit about what you're doing to not expose your computer and network to danger.

Very awesome and easy to follow tutorial. Thank you!! I like that you ran into this bug even though it's fixed now for one major reason: If you partition /home separate from /, then the workaround you have for the bug is also an easy way to move the server data onto the correct partition. The bug is fixed now btw, but please keep this around even if you do update the video as it's really useful info.

thanks to this i made my own on fabric and on windows, u are a beast

Congratulations on the amazing tutorial! I didn't know about the CasaOS and Crafity projects. What amazing projects! Thanks a lot!

Really great presentation. You should create a 'sleepy' playlist. Your voice is so ASMR. I need MAWR!

Takes me back to when I made a server as a kid, we all bought mc for like £9 and played for weeks over the summer together with mods on

this is such a great informative guide which is really fun to do :) thank you

Thanks for the links btw

Use paper or similar only AND ONLY if you're a casual player that doesn't make farm or redstone contraptions. Paper breaks vanilla mechanics even with the least amount of settings. Just use a normal fabric performance server modpack to achieve better performance and 100% vanilla mechanics coverage so your contraptions and farms will always 100% work as intended.

Neat, I've been planning to host my own server all this time with my hardware and finally found this

your creativity is out of this world!

I love your channel. It's the cheap computers showcased in a way that I just like

Brilliant tutorial, just what i have been after. Thank you!

Great video! Used information to deploy to a Mac mini (Late 2014) and an older HP desktop Pavilion. Worked perfectly Thank you!

I followed this and it just worked, I am amazed. Thank you

literally just finished to make the setup from your older video... this one looks a lot better. Btw can i do it on ubuntu?

Great guide! Have you ever looked at Pterodactyl as a counterpart?

Love this. Last year I was running a modded fabric server with 20 people playing on it on POP OS. While I love pop os it eats 3-4GB out of 16 of the memory I need for my minecraft server. Plus I had do backups, edits, restarts and everything else manually. Not to mention I had to get up and go into another room then turn on the TV to re-configure the server every so often. With this I just run it and I can access everything from my main PC! BTW it looks like that issue crafty had with casa os has now been resolved but I still changed the file locations because I thought they made more sense.

Thank you so much for this guide! I've been searching a long time for a solution for a decent server that I don't need to pay (monthly) for. I also didn't want to bother with the linux coding etc. so this really saved me!! Thanks!

Bro that's literally what I'm trying right now, even on the same PC!

Mate your videos are amazing keep it up i followed your video "Building A Minecraft Server With 12 Year Old PC" on a Samsung laptop from 2009 and omg it just worked amazingly!

Hand-down the BEST minecraft server guide out there! An absolute deus ex machina for my own server setup. THANK YOU!

Can you make an video how to use mods with crafty controller, like Mincraft create mode

Thank you for this! It was easy to understand and this way is good for beginners

I've been thinking about doing this for my son. This will help. Thank you!

Man im so happy with how your channel has grown great work

I'd be interested in a video about the playitgg docker container & how to plug that into crafty-4 to get java & bedrock servers working

12:03, you could have also just pressed enter and that will do the default (which is y, which is shown be the capital letter Y where it said [Y/n]) EDIT: 13:37 you can also just set a static IP, which would be the same for everyone then.

I installed the Crafty Controller on a Debian container on Proxmox.

Nice. I have an older but still pretty powerful Dell edge tower server with duel 6 core xeons. I'm gonna get this set up with a couple of different servers. Thank you!

crafty is great, my friends asked me last summer to put up a minecraft server so i have a docker container on my vps with crafty installed.

I lucked out and found a 5825u mini pc for $200. Plenty fast to run minecraft. Thank you for this tutorial. I had no idea so many of these solutions existed! Makes deploying the thing a whole lot easier.

I literally just set up that exact same Prodesk with CasaOS on it yesterday! This video is like a tutorial of my afternoon 👍

Nice video, will need to try it out some time, as I've always been launching minecraft servers on linux by just playing around with files and console. Also you can assign the static IP address to the server, it will skip the process of searching for your router setting of reserving the IP address, the only required thing would be to take out this IP from the DHCP range, which is not rly mandatory.

I have done it on a Linux Virtualbox and it was very easy and free!

Oh my! I tweaked withg Casa OS and really loved it, but was just a random test to see how it worked, since i don't have a decent spaer computer for it. Now with your tutorial, it will be much easier to create a server to play with my friends ^ ^

I was looking for something like this! Thanks... I was trying to do something with Cloudflare but this is much more convenient for Minecraft ^^

I have followed all steps and it works! I can now play with my friends without having to pay for a host! I did buy a mini pc but that's just a one time expense hah.

Quick tip, if you don’t want to lookup your computer model, just flip your keyboard around and push it down until am menu pops up