How To Update Your Minecraft Server (Works With Any Version)

What is going on everybody so today I’m gonna be giving you guys a tutorial it’s gonna be showing you guys how to update your minecraft server um before we get into it I just want to say if anything that I’ve done in the past or I’m doing

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Comments down below so let’s just get right into it so a lot of you guys have been asking me in the comments section over the past couple weeks how do I update my server because 1.15 came out I made a video about it and then 1.15

Point one dropped and now we’re on 1.15 point two and I haven’t made a video about that I mean yeah you can go back and you can remake the entire server but what if you want to preserve your world what if you want to preserve your settings and all that stuff it is

Possible to do that so I’m going to show you how to do that today so here we are right now this is tutorial this is the tutorial that we set up a while back you can see that it’s on 1.15 my client that I’m on right now is 1.15 point two and

You can see that the server we can’t join it because it’s on 1.15 it says outdated server I’m still on 1.15 so we got to fix that problem so to do that we’re gonna hop over to our server when you can see that I have it running right

Here so what I’m gonna do is I’m going to type in stop to close the server because that’s the correct way to close the server if you guys don’t know by now make sure you type stop don’t click this X up here because you can corrupt your world file your player data

It’s not very common but I have experienced it and it sucks if you don’t have a backup so pressing a key to continue and yeah the one thing that we’re concerned with is inside of our server working directory we got here we’re worried about this server dot jar this

File right here is what determines what version of minecraft your server will run so even though there’s no numbers on this or anything we have to get a different version of this file right here and replace it so right now this is the 1.15 server jar well we need to go

Online and get and go right to the minecraft website just like we normally do and we got to get the 1.15 point2 jar so go to the website and you can just type download after that’s how I do it there’s many ways to get to this page scroll down where it says download

Minecraft Java Edition server software get it here you click on that and you’ll bring you to this familiar page and you download right here and you click on the server jar and make sure if this pops up it says this type of file could harm your computer do you want to keep the

Server jar anyway make sure you click keep it’s not a virus this is just Chrome saying that hey I don’t know what this file is that you just downloaded and I just trying to make sure that you meant to download it and we did so make

Sure you click keep and I can promise you guys it’s totally safe this is coming straight from Mojang chrome does that with any type of jar file you download or any Exe or anything like that so now that we have it I’m going to take the server jar I’m gonna drag it

Straight to my desktop I did that by moving it all the way down to the bottom right and the bottom right if you drag something it’ll close all your windows and you can drop it straight onto your desktop and what we’re gonna want to do

Is open up our 1.15 server that we got and see how it’s called server jar we want to make sure that we name this one exactly the same as the old one so this is the new one this is the old one if we want to right click click rename and

Make sure this is just server jar not server 3 like we had it so you guys might have different numbers you might not have any numbers after it but just make sure these two are called the exact same thing and then delete the old one it’s as simple as deleting the

Old one you got to make sure your server’s shut down when you’re doing this otherwise it won’t let you delete that file and then you just basically want to replace it so drag the new one in and there you go it’s literally as simple as that and start up your new

Server and once it launches we should see that it’s gonna start a 1.15 point to server instead of a 1.15 see right here starting minecraft server version 1.15 point two and we’re gonna let it load up the spawn area and we’ll hop back on to the Minecraft client and

We’ll get to see that all the settings got retained so now it’s done let’s hop back over to our minecraft client and you can see that it still says 1.15 1.15 test server you can see we have a picture right here and my message of the

Day let’s refresh this and hey now we can join so let’s hop on and here we are so yeah that was pretty much all there is to it guys you just really have to replace that server dot jar and yeah your world will still be the same your

Player data everything will get retained and that’s how you so you update your minecraft server guys so this should work across versions going backwards is honestly the same thing but you can lose some data I’ll make a whole nother video explaining how to go backwards because it’s a little bit more complicated but

Really really just the general same idea but that’s gonna be it for this one guys if this helped you in any way at all make sure you drop a like and subscribe if you want to see anything from me in the future and if you have any questions

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