Free 24/7 Minecraft Server 1.17.1 Hosted FREE | Google Cloud Minecraft Server Step-By-Step 2021

Hello everyone and welcome back to the channel  my name is brent and in today’s video we’re going   to go into episode 2 of actually setting up our  google cloud platform to host our very own free   minecraft server 24 7. it’ll be completely  free to use for you and your friends and  

It’ll have some pretty good specs to start off  so we’re gonna go step by step standing up for   the google cloud platform creating our project uh  creating our virtual machine instance log it into   our virtual machine and configuring it in order to  begin loading up our minecraft server this whole  

Process takes less than 20 minutes and you get a  completely free 24 7 minecraft server where you   can set it up for your friends to begin playing  on so let’s go ahead and get into the video if you  

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Now right off the bat what you want to do is  head over to google and type in google cloud   or you know google cloud platform any of the  sorts now the very first search here should   be google cloud it should be the cloud computing  services you’re going to go ahead and select that  

Once you’ve selected that you’re going to go  ahead and appear on this page where you can   contact sales or go into the console now up at the  top what i want to go ahead and quickly showcase   is that brand new customers to this service get  three hundred dollars and free credits to spend  

On the google cloud so you get three hundred  dollars to spend as ever you want over the next   time frame in order to set up your minecraft  server pretty beefy right off the bat so they   also do have some free tier as well so we’ll  quickly go over the google cloud free program  

So right off the bat you get 90 days to spend  300 on their google cloud service that means   you could create a minecraft server that has four  cores and 16 gigs and it’ll be completely free for  

The first 90 days chewing away at that 300 of free  credit but they have a free tier here so they have   a free tier here of different products so after  90 days has expired you can lower your instance  

Down into the free tier and begin continuing to  use the google cloud platform completely for free   so here you’re able to have one virtual machine  instance on the west coast in oregon in central   and iowa and the east coast in south carolina  you get 30 gigs of standard disc so that’s  

Plenty of space for you and a few friends to begin  playing minecraft and have just a nice easy going   minecraft server you get five gigs of snapshots so  every weekend you can do a quick snapshot of your  

System and then if you have any issues you can  always revert it back to that previous snapshot   and then that’s just your free tier you get that  indefinitely there’s instance is not by time so  

Your fear your free tier 2 e2 micro instance limit  is by time not by instance so each month you are   eligible to use all of your e2 micro instances  for free until you have used the number of hours  

Equal to the total number of hours in the current  month so every month you get that free instance   completely for free and definitely so long as  you’re staying within these boundaries so right   off the bat we’re going to go ahead and create  our system based off the minecraft requirements  

And we’re gonna have a really nice beefy  machine so mycroft’s recommended requirements   are one cpu and four gigs of ram so our machine  we’re gonna go ahead and have a nice beefy machine   running at least at a minimum four gigs of ram but  we’ll probably have ours running just a little bit  

More because we have so many credits to use to  get our system going and we want to have a nice   beefy system getting it going so jumping back  over here so we can actually click on here to  

Get started completely for free and that’s going  to get us logged into the google cloud platform   so it kind of gives us our account information  so you’re just going to go ahead and describe   your organization i’m just it’s a personal project  disagree you know agree for the platform and hit  

Continue you can see on the side here that you get  three hundred dollars of credits for free that you   can use for your work over the next 90 days so  over the next 90 days you and your friends can  

Actually set up a pretty beefy system for  you guys to use over the next 90 days and   then after the 90 days has expired you guys can  kind of beef it down to a smaller one gig system  

But we’re going to go ahead and set up our  system so here identify your verification and   contact information so i’m going to go ahead and  just punch in my number here and blur it out for  

You guys so this is just the same process that you  would go through while setting up your own account   so i’m not going to be skipping around anywhere  the same process that we’re going to be going   through in the video is the exact same process  that you would be going through our account  

Type just change that to individual and instead  of putting in a credit card or debit card here   i just go down below and there should be an option  to select the arrow and then select paypal and  

Then that’s all you really need to do i just fill  in your information there for paypal and start   your free trial so if you have a paypal account  you guys can sign up for the paypal account

I’m just going to go ahead and punch in some  random digits here and start my free trial   because this is a the first time that you’ve  kind of entered in here you’re not going to have  

Any projects and the next thing that we want  to do is create a project so here we go into   our projects i’m going to go ahead and create  a minecraft server and create this project room   okay so now we’re inside of our minecraft  server project that we just created  

I’m going to go ahead and click on the hamburger  here go down to compute engine head up to virtual   machine instance because we want to create  a virtual machine instance inside of the   the compute engine that’s that area here that we  want to set up our server okay here we have the  

Ability to enable the compute engine api so this  process here takes another another minute or so   so while this is um getting enabled we want  to go ahead and just make sure that we have   the minimum here so we want four gigs of  disk space so again the free tier here  

Allows you to have 30 gigs completely  for free so that that aspect is met   dedicated video ram you know the system is going  to have 256 megabytes that’s completely fine   the ram we’re going to go ahead and set up our  server with a minimum of 4 gigs but using the  

Free credits that we receive over the next 90  days we’ll probably set up for the ram to have   16 gigs where we can go ahead and and run our  minecraft server using the minimum of 4 gigs and  

The maximum of eight gigs so let’s go ahead and  check back on this api and it should be finishing   up here shortly so i’m not going to be forwarding  through anything that way you guys can kind of  

See just how long this process takes if you guys  were following along as well this is pretty much   how much time you would spend kind of getting this  going and you know unlike other free minecraft  

Server hosts where you’re going to be hit with ads  or not really being control of your server or have   to pay to get a server and test it out you don’t  have to do anything here there’s no absolutely no  

Payments here you can just set it up and test and  it’s completely all yours so here we’re now inside   of our virtual machine instance down on the bottom  here we have a blue button we want to go ahead and  

Create the instance so now we are going to go  into creating the actual virtual machine now   so we’ve we’re going in the kind of step two we’re  creating our virtual machine instance so the name  

Here i’m going to go ahead and name this minecraft  server same as my project now here in the region   the region is permanent so if you want to stay  within this free tier you should select either u.s  

West one u.s central one or u.s east one that  way in the future when you go to lower your the   the specs the machine configuration into the free  tier at least your region will be within a region  

That you can keep long-term so i’m located over on  the west coast so i’m going to go ahead and locate   and select u.s west one and your zone doesn’t  matter i’m going to go ahead and just select  

Alpha for a there and then that’s going to be my  region so later on after the 90 days when my 300   of credits has expired i can easily stop my  virtual machine edit the machine configuration and  

Lower the machine type down to the the free scope  now here is where we kind of select our engine our   machine configuration so we can select it right  here and we can see that the medium build here  

Comes with two virtual machines and four gigabytes  the e2 micro which is the free virtual machine   is two cpus and one gig of memory i have loaded  up in the very first video here back here  

This instance where i was kind of showcasing what  the google cloud can do i was running a 1.17.1   server it was a bit laggy at the start but it did  work where i was kind of running around i had no  

Issues i was kind of choppy at times but once my  area the the area that i was in and being active   in once that got built out on the server it was no  longer an issue i was able to kind of move around  

Build my little base right there and had no issues  and then here i asked the question if anybody knew   of a minecraft server that i could actually run on  512 megabytes you know anywhere from 256 to 512.   i did have octane here another youtuber  octane he also suggested running 1.12 or 1.8  

So i did try 1.8.9 and that one ran completely  smooth that server i had no issues no hiccups i   was running around exploring the area i found  out that in 1.8.9 they don’t have shields so  

That was a interesting thing so here going back to  our system here i’m going to go ahead and select   the e2 standard 4 and what this is going to allow  me to do is have 4 cpus and 16 gigs of memory we  

Can see that the monthly estimate here is 98.84  cents but we have nearly 300 in credits available   i’ve set up a virtual machine  in the past in that last video   so this is just using a little bit of that tr  credits um that of that 300 and our systems are  

Going to be running really nicely 24 7 here okay  so all we’ve done here is e2 standard the next   option here that we want to check is go into the  boot disk hit change select the operating system  

Go down to umbuto select that this one is very low  as far as storage so it takes a very minimal it’s   really quick and easy and lightweight we’re going  to go ahead and select umbutu 20.04 lts and then  

Here we want to go ahead and select the standard  persistent disk and set the disk there to 30 gigs   because again going back and looking at the free  30 gigs is completely free they’re not going to  

Charge us here so the only thing that we’re really  getting charged here for is the machine type we   just have a really nice beefy machine but the boot  but the boot disc that’s going to be in the free  

Tier and the region’s going to be in the free tier  we’re not going to be charged at all for that area   so the only other area here that we’re gonna go  and enable is the firewall we’re wanting to allow  

Http traffic in https so we’re just allowing  traffic in and out from our virtual machine   and then here inside of the networking area  select networking and networking tags we’re   going to go ahead and add minecraft tag in here  hit enter slide on down to create and select it  

So now we’ve created our minecraft server we  set up our minecraft server with four cpus we’ve   um so four cpus 16 gigs of ram 30 gigs  of storage in a linux operating system so   now our virtual machine is getting started  here you can kind of see that it’s cycling  

Here in just a few minutes this will go green the  status will be up and on the right hand side will   be given an external ip and the ability to ssh so  here we go we can see that the instance is running  

We’re less than 15 minutes into the video about 10  minutes of setting this up and now we can go ahead   and click on ssh here to begin logging into our  minecraft server so while this is going over here  

On the page before we get any further click down  here on setup firewall rules we want to go ahead   and set up our firewall rules for minecraft  so up at the top click on create firewall rule  

Here we’re gonna go ahead and name this minecraft  rule and slide on down to your tags so target tags   remember that we set up our virtual machine with  the target tag the network tag minecraft we’re  

Going to go ahead and also create the minecraft  tag in here that way uh this rule applies to   that uh virtual machine instance and then here as  the source ip range now this is basically asking   what networks are able to be allowed to connect  to this server through what ip and what ports  

So in this case we want to set this to 0.0.0.0  so all ips with a cider of zero and that allows   all ip ranges to connect to our minecraft server  down here we want to go ahead and select tcp and  

This should already have my connection there the  default minecraft java connection port is two five   five six five and then in the next video i’m gonna  go ahead and show you guys how to uh s ftp secure   ftp to your minecraft server and load plugins  into your minecraft world and set up geyser  

So we’re going to go ahead and select udp and  udp’s default port here is one nine one three two   so for java we have two five five six five and  four bedrock we have one nine one three two so  

In the next video we’re gonna go ahead and sftp to  our minecraft server uh install the geyser plugin   and set up our minecraft server to allow java  and bedrock so that’s we’re going to be doing  

On our next video once we have this going and then  here we’re just going to go ahead and click create   so now we’ve created the rule that’s creating  the rule down there we can go ahead and click   on the hamburger menu head down to compute  engine and back up to our virtual machine  

Instances and here we are on this page now we  already selected the ssh tab so you can go ahead   and bring that up that tab should be available  and here we are we’re logged into the system  

We’re using about five percent of our 30 gigs of  space our memory usage is very low at one percent   for this system and all we need to do here before  we do anything we want to update and upgrade our  

System so that’s always the thing you should do  with any operating system as soon as you get onto   the operating system update it and upgrade it to  the latest security versions and settings and the   the system itself the operating system itself so  command number one that we’re going to be running  

Will be down in the description below all of these  commands will be down in the description below   the first command is just to update our  operating system to the latest and greatest   operating system settings and security settings  so it’s just a combination of two commands and  

One so we’ll have a little um you know a lot  of the times a lot of individuals don’t know   what commands are running on their virtual machine  so i’m trying to explain it in a way that if you  

Are watching this and you’re wondering what are  the commands that we’re running what do they do   i’m going to go ahead and talk a little bit  about each command that we’re running here   in order to kind of understand what we’re doing  here so the very first command we just did sudo  

Uh sotu which is main um you’re running  it as the super user su means super user   and then we’re just running it as a super user  update and super user upgrade okay so this is done   so we’ve updated our systems to the latest  and greatest now depending on the version  

Of minecraft that you want to run this is where  you need to install the specific version of java   for your minecraft server now these systems can  load a number of of javas so we can type in java  

Version and we can see here that java is not  currently found on the system but it can be   installed with one of these commands so if  you’re wanting to start a minecraft 1.17.1   yeah 1.17 or higher you’ll use java 16. if you  want to run a java 1.16.5 to i believe the 1.13  

Series you would want java 11 and if you use  something older like 1.13 1.12 and prior you   may want to use the java 8. so in this case  we are using we’re going to be installing  

Minecraft 1.17.1 so here i’m going to go ahead  and do sudo which is just the super user and then   paste the open jdk command right there and this  is basically just asking us that this is going to  

Be loading and using 214 megabytes do we want to  agree to that we’re going to go ahead and hit yes   to agree and it’s going to install java on  our machine so i set up a previous server  

On 1.8.9 and i had ran the command to install  java 8. so now if we hit java version we can see   what version of java we are currently using we can  see right here we’re using java 16.0.1 okay now we  

Have our system up to date we have it upgraded to  the latest and greatest and we have java installed   the next thing we want to do is begin to create  our directory for our minecraft information so in  

This case we’re going to go ahead and type make mk  directory space and i’m going to go ahead and type   in minecraft dash 1.17.1 all we’re doing here is  running the command to make a directory which is  

A folder that folder name will be minecraft dash  1.17.1 and now i created it i can type ls which   is just list and i will say that that folder is  listed there as minecraft and the name so now i  

Can type in cd to change directory hit m and tab  and it’ll fill out that folder that i created   if you created a different folder name just  hit the first letter of the folder and hit  

Tab and it’ll finish out for you and hit enter so  now we are inside of that folder name i’m going   to go ahead and see if i can blow up the text any  larger no i can’t hopefully you guys can see this  

On the mobile i know sometimes it can be difficult  to see on the mobile mobile devices but all these   commands will be down in the description below  okay now we are inside of the minecraft folder at  

This point we want to decide what version or what  type of minecraft we want to load so we have some   options out there we can go to mcversion.net and  we can install the vanilla versions of minecraft   so here we have all the options of the stable  versions of minecraft going from 1.17.1  

All the way back to 1.0 so we’re actually  able to install the vanilla versions using   this website i will have this link down in the  description below as well but in my case i want   to in my next video go over installing the geyser  plug-in so instead i want to load paper minecraft  

So i went over to the paper mc.io website clicked  up with the downloads and here i can download   paper 1.17.1 now you can download previous  versions of minecraft by clicking on legacy   here you can see that you can download  1.15.2 all the way down to 1.8.8 of paper  

So these are all the paper versions so depending  on again what version you want to load just know   that it’s available there we’re going to install  the latest in greyish which is the update 277 so  

In this case if i were to click this it would  be a direct download where i could download   the the file the jar file right there  so knowing that you want to right click   and copy the link address once you’ve copied the  link address head over back to your ssh console  

Type w get so we’re basically doing a a world wide  web get space and then go ahead and paste that url   and now we have downloaded the paper file we  can type in ls to list our files once again  

And we can now see that this document this um  this jar file is now located in this folder   so now we’re to the step right now where we want  to actually start up our server and go through the  

Ula so i’m going to go ahead and type screen which  is going to allow me to go to a separate screen   from my server and the reason i do this is that  way i can toggle between my server page and my my  

Instance my my server my minecraft server  instance so i can kind of toggle between them   and kind of leave it up 24 7 without  closing out of the session and crashing   out my server so all i did was screen hit  enter and i’m in a separate screen then my  

My server itself we can actually see the screen  that we’re currently in by typing screen dash   ls to list our current screen so this is the  separate screen that we’re attached to right now   we can go ahead and type in our list to list  that file that we downloaded the paper dash

1.17.1.277.jar file so now we’re going  to go ahead and kick our server up   uh using the java command so  we’re going to type in java   space big x ms four gigs for using minimum of four  gigs and then our maximum that we’re going to be  

Using is eight gigs and we’re going to be running  the jar and then we have this new version here and then at the very end type in no gui and there  we go so what we’re doing is we’re running our  

Server starting up using four gigs but we have  the maximum that it can use of as eight gigs   and as this is going it should cancel out here in  just a few seconds because we need to accept the  

Eula okay right there it failed to load because  we need to accept the eula next we’re going to   go ahead and type in nano and then type in the  eula.txt which is the file that we want to edit  

And go into the file head to the very  end where we need to set this to true   now hold ctrl hit x hit y to yes you want to  save your modified issue and then hit enter  

To complete it and now we’re back out you  can see here we’re down there at the bottom   ready to once again hit up two times to go  back to that previous command that we ran   and actually really quickly i can go ahead  and type in ls we can see here that we have  

A few other files within that folder because  we started off our for our server initially   so what i want to do here prior to starting up  our server once again is go ahead and type in nano  

Server dot properties and here before i start up  my server once again i’m going to go ahead and give this a message of the  day equals hello youtubers free google 1.17.1 server so we’re just going  to say hello youtubers and then that’ll be  

Our message of the day pvp is true we can set  difficulty to hard we can set our players to say   15 we can set our view distance to four we can  set our there’s one other thing here i want to  

Set which is the spawn protection to zero and  that is it so now i can hit again control and x   together hit y to accept hit enter and we’re back  at our our command prompt where i can hit up up  

Up just a few times up until i get that that java  command again hit enter and now we are starting up   our minecraft server officially so we should  see all the files begin to populate now here  

While this is going i’ll actually show you guys  here in just a minute uh so while this is kind of   going i’m going to go ahead and put this on the  left hand side and i have my minecraft instance  

Up on the right hand side so really quickly  before i log in it’s going to display my public   ip but i’m going through a vpn so all the comments  saying that i’m showing my public ip just really  

Quickly i’m using a a vpn so it doesn’t actually  show my actual vpn my public ip but thank you   guys for commenting in the past that’s you know  always appreciated uh so really quickly let’s  

Go back here to our virtual machine which is here  we’re going to go ahead and copy the external ip   to our clipboard and bring minecraft up bring our  session up and go ahead and click on add server  

Server ip address and i’m going to go ahead  and give this google cloud server hit done   and right here if i sold that correctly it doesn’t  matter on the spelling of the server it should   now say hello youtubers this is a free google  1.17.1 server and i can hit enjoy in the server  

And boom we are now inside of our  minecraft server just like that easy peasy   and i can run over here and begin doing a few you  know the basic stuff hitting wood chop down a tree   look at this i completed my very first quest  up there my achievement i’ve gathered some wood

And now if you are your own um you know you’re  basically the operator of your minecraft server   and you want to opt yourself you can go ahead  and opt yourself you can see that the wood um  

The tree there at the bottom turned brown because  it lost the attachment to the root of the tree   so as i break this one let’s go ahead and break  this remaining one up here we’ll see if the leaves  

Turn brown oh yeah you see that the leaves they  turn brown indicating that the roots of the tree   have been chopped down so i’m going  to go ahead and make this bigger   uh really quickly just kind of playing around here  in in the server for a bit and it just showcasing  

We’ll we’ll run around here just a second uh  what we can see here our time in the video   we’re at 33 minutes five minutes of that was  basically the intro and getting our server or  

Getting signed up for google so this whole server  process you were with me step by step no gaps we   set this up in 25 minutes or less you know if  you guys weren’t talking such as i was then  

It can completely be done super easy peasy no  issues i’m gonna go ahead and just grab a couple   of those throw down our crafting table craft  up a pickaxe go ahead and grab some stone here

And yeah we could have we can we can give our  friends the external ip right now and all of   our friends would be able to connect onto  our minecraft server and begin playing in   the survival world it’s set up on hard if you guys  are interested i’ll leave this instance running so  

When you guys are watching this tomorrow and  you guys are looking at it um actually you   know what i’m going to go ahead and just save it  i know i’ll leave it i’ll leave it running and  

I will be ending i will eventually be shutting it  down to load plugins during the next video process   but um it’ll be active up until then so it’ll just  be a public server if you guys watching this video  

Are looking to join a public server this  one will be active i have my own public free   minecraft server uh located here you go ahead  and disconnect right here so this is go dungeon   smp it’s a dungeon server it is just play dot go  dungeon smp.ga completely free to play on there  

It’s pve survival where they have claims world  dungeons scattered throughout the world where you   can just run in and do like a rogue style dungeon  or uh roguelike or doom there’s a ton of different   dungeons scattered throughout the world with caves  and cliffs dungeon biomes all sorts of different  

New biomes so definitely check out that server if  you guys haven’t checked it out uh but see here   there we go and then if you guys want to opt  yourself in here all you need to do here is  

Type in op and type in your username and you have  operated yourself okay now if you want to leave   your server running as it is right now but you  want to work on your server itself hold ctrl and  

Hit a and hit d so control a and control d and  this will actually take you back to the prior   screen right here and here we can see uh i can  type in here screen dash ls to list off my screens  

So here this screen right here is running  the server it’s currently detached   uh but our server is up and running and if i want  to remote onto that screen i could type in screen  

Dash r to remote and then type in the integer here  which is 16482 and then i would remote onto that   integer that instance of the server so i could do  slash help right here and get a list of all the   uh the commands for our minecraft  server so i could locate the

Let’s go ahead and locate the stronghold let’s  go ahead and set myself gamemode creative tp   to negative 248. will go 100 negative 2136  and now we’re teleporting ourselves to the   stronghold right here or if i were to just dig  straight down i would eventually go into the  

Stronghold but the easiest way here is go  game mode spectator and there we are we’re   inside of the stronghold right here and see  if we can find oh there it is right there uh game mode creative oops not that i want pies

We’re just kind of checking out the um the  server itself like there’s no issues you can   see how fast it’s running i haven’t had  any sort of issues over here on the left   hand side everything is running nice and  smooth uh we’ve reached the end right here

And we’re kind of just zooming  and the ender dragon see if we   can see him here go ahead and make the screen big boy that is a um very dark and glitter yeah but the ender dragon  oh okay yeah yeah he should be up there somewhere  

He’s just not very visible okay uh but  that is basically it i’m gonna go ahead and   stop our server actually i’ll leave  it running but uh we’re gonna go ahead   hit control a control d to go to the previous  window and then here i can go ahead and hit ls  

And if you want to edit any of your your files  within here so if you want to go and optimize your   your paper server we do need to stop our server  first so i’m going to go ahead and hit stop our  

Server closed and now i can hit alt alt t to go  back over here and i can go nano and go into each   file that i want to adjust such as the paper  dot yml and i can go through here and make  

My adjustments to optimize my minecraft server  hit control x and exit out of there and why if   you made any changes uh but that is basically  it our server is completely up its active is  

24 7 so long as we don’t stop it and that is  basically it let me know down in the comment   section below what you thought of this quick  video we had essentially a free 24 7 minecraft  

Server set up on 1.17.1 uh set up all within 25  minutes you know it would actually take you longer   to go through the process of buying a minecraft  server on an on a host and get it all configured  

It would take almost the same time or a little bit  longer to go through the whole process and here we   got it all done for free and we’re able to log in  play on our minecraft server begin giving out our  

Ip to our friends where they can connect onto  our minecraft server as well so that is it for   this video um yeah that’s it so thank you all for  tuning if you guys have any comments or questions  

Let me know down in the comment section below all  the commands will be down in the description below   as well as timestamps and in the next video we’re  going to go ahead and cover how to secure ftp  

To your minecraft server here to begin loading  plugins we’re going to be setting up geyser in   the next plugin which will allow you to have both  java and bedrock players join your google cloud   platform so that is it thank you all for tuning in  if you guys haven’t yet subscribed go down below  

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