Netbook Minecraft Server

Minecraft is certainly a fun game, and you know what is even more fun… having your own server.
I recently decided to repurpose an old 1.6 Ghz Asus EEE Netbook that I had hanging around to function as my new Minecraft server.

Steps

• Installed Lubuntu linux which is nice lightweight linux installation
• Installed Java 8, which seems to provide better performance for running minecraft than Java 7

  # Downloaded the latest JDK 8 for 32-bit Linux
  tar zxf jdk-8u40-linux-i586.tar.gz
  sudo mkdir /opt/jdk
  sudo mv jdk* /opt/jdk
  sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /opt/jdk/jdk1.8.0_05/bin/java 100
  sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /opt/jdk/jdk1.8.0_05/bin/javac 100
  

• Install helpful tools for video playback (when not using as Minecraft server

  sudo apt-get-repository ppa:relan/exfat
  sudo apt-get install rcconf exfat-utils ffmpeg vlc exfat rcconf
  

• Disable GUI to save on memory and CPU sudo mv /etc/init/lightdm.conf /etc/init/lightdm.conf.bak

• Enable remote file transfer sudo apt-get install ftpd

• Enable remote administration sudo apt-get install openssh-server

• Disable sleep mode when closing the netbook lid ```sudo nano /etc/systemd/logind.conf

  Add HandleLidSwitch=ignore```

• Install screen utility so can type screen -r later to get to minecraft console sudo apt-get install screen

• Enable start-up of minecraft server

  mkdir /home/user/spigot
  # Copy your startup script to it (I called mine mc.sh)
  sudo nano /etc/rc.local
  #exit 0
  sudo -u user /home/user/spigot/mc.sh start
  

• Disable wireless if using hard wired connection

  sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
  # Remove to get wireless working
  iface wlan0 inet manual
  sudo service network-manager restart
  

• On another system, grab the [[https://hub.spigotmc.org/jenkins/job/BuildTools/

  BuiltTools.jar]] and build spigot-1.8.3.jar if you are not using the minecraft.jar from Mojang

_{Last modified: 05/16/2020}