How We Run & Host Hermitcraft

Many of you know me as the leader of hermitcraft or the admin making the Minecraft server run behind the scenes but neither of these are entirely true many moons ago in the second half of season two I stepped up to our leaderless group and asked to take a

Role in organizing and directing our shared future together since I never created hermitcraft I considered it a stewardship of the throne running hermitcraft in the absence of another it came with the responsibility of handling the world and physical server it resided on and with this I learned a lot about

Running a Minecraft server not just from a technical perspective but a communal one too and things have changed since then a lot I no longer have this stewardship role having chosen to step down let others take the lead and focus on serving my fellow Hermits through the

Technical side of the game I keep the server running maintain the world regularly and organize the creation of data packs and mods all with the help of some wonderful people who contribute their time to help hermitcraft shine right so what are these videos all about then a brief answer I simply wish to

Share my insights and knowledge with all of you but that is not so straightforward because the common question I am asked which is how do you run the hermitcraft server can mean a couple of things depending on who’s asking is it a technical question about the connectivity and Hardware a gameplay

Inquiry related to mods and data packs or a social question about organizing groups and keeping players motivated the latter being another common question I received too So eventually I decided to cover these Topics in depth alongside the server’s origin story this will be the first of three videos about

Hermitcraft and in this one we will cover the mechanics of our server and how the world is set up for us to play on a common question about running the hermitcraft server is who hosts it and the answer we host it ourselves which is unhelpful and leads to more questions of

Which a YouTube video is probably not a great place to learn about setting up Debian distros with Docker hosting a pterodactyl control panel for ah you get the point what you need to know is that we have a dedicated server one single piece of Hardware doing one job running

Hermitcraft the hardware we picked was based on the cpu’s single threaded performance this lone metric is a huge determining factor for the performance of a Minecraft server under pressure and should be used to estimate performance RAM on the other hand assigning more is actually counterproductive but only in a

Minor way it has been suggested that around 10 or 12 gigabytes is more than sufficient of course all components of server Hardware play a role and connectivity is another Factor altogether so the key detail is that we run a dedicated server which may be overkill for some players but if you’re

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Get 20 off so click the link in the description box and get 20 off your first purchase so we have touched on hosting the hermitcraft server is up up and running but what’s next well there is mods data packs and World maintenance now if you have ever played on a server

Built a farm and found out it doesn’t work like in single player this might be because of Spiga spigger is a modded server that changes how the game behaves which may very well result in your Contraptions not working correctly but it’s not to say that it’s always a bad

Thing as it allows for faster performance at the expense of preserving vanilla features not to mention on the Mini-Game servers the vanilla experience doesn’t matter anyway we’re here on hermitcraft we want to preserve the vanilla experience and therefore we use fabric on top of fabric and its API we

Run a handful of mods to optimize performance without compromise and it was at this point that I had a moment of deja vu but recently I made a video listing out the very same mods I use in my hermitcraft series for a deep dive you should head over to that video after

This one for the quick rundown we use phosphor to improve the lighting engine lithium for General optimize stations view distance fix for Hermits to control the view distance client side status mod to passively communicate current activities in the tab menu like streaming or recording simple voice chat

Enables us to talk in-game when in proximity of one another and audio player mod allows us to upload audio and attach Custom Sounds to record disks and goat horns you ready for it I’ve we also recently added quartz finder which allows players to bookmark locations in the world and look them up

Through the chat interface now not all enhancements are brought to the server through mods we also make use of data packs and the one you’re probably most interested in will be the armor statues data pack this one gives you that magical book that allows you to manipulate and interact with arm stands

And of course this has led to tons of amazing Creations on the hermitcraft server now there are a lot so I’m going to give you a brief rundown we have the AFK display to change a player’s name to gray when they haven’t moved for more than five minutes anti-enderman griefing

Puts a block in enderman’s hands that they can’t actually place in the world so this stops Enderman from picking up blocks which over time tends to ruin the Minecraft landscape coordinates HUD is an alternative to pressing F3 to see your coordinates in the world instead it

Will simply display it in the bar of text that appears above your Hotbar durability ping is a warning system for the player if their tool or weapon is dangerously close to Breaking then they can get an alert either through sound or through text on screen and all of this

Is highly configurable on her let me craft you might have noticed that all mobs in the world passive or hostile they will drop their own head which the player can then use this is thanks to the more mob heads data pack and another one that’s relevant is the player heads

Drop so if a player kills another player their head will also drop nether portal coordinates is a fantastic tool that you can activate in chat and then it will give you the equivalent of the coordinates in the other dimension you can use this both in the Overworld and

In the never Dimension and it’s great for hooking up Nether Portals then we have silence mobs which enables you to rename a name tag and then if you use that name tag on a mob it will become silent which is great for keeping a mob inside of your base and it not annoying

You or for maybe pranking another hermit unlock recipes trigger is a simple command that will just unlock all of the recipes that you have in the crafting bench for you from the get-go so you don’t get all of those pop-ups throughout the season the next packs are

For The Spectator account or the camera account which many of us have on this server TP tools is a bunch of commands that enables you to teleport your camera account around the world or into a different dimension then there is spectator conduit power and spectator night vision and as you might have

Guessed these toggle on and offs if you want to record underwater at night but have some good visibility then you’ve got these options and last of all we have some data packs that tweak crafting recipes mainly Universal dyeing and concrete dyeing which enable you to re-die colored wall or colored concrete for example

So this season and last season of hermitcraft you have seen custom textures and 3D models brought into the game this is done through a resource pack but more importantly there’s a data pack that enables it to happen inside the vanilla game and this is important because it means when the World download

Is shared at the end of a season you’ll be able to experience this the same way that we have now this is called the custom role play a data pack and it enables you to bring in those custom textures and custom models into the game for a resource pack unfortunately this

Video is not the place to teach you about the complexities of creating 3D models attaching textures to them and then getting that to work inside a resource pack that is a whole separate set of skills you’ll have to learn somewhere else now you might have come here wanting to recreate this experience

For yourself well I have good news we have set up a curse Forge mod pack that you can run in single player or as a server as you might guess the server configuration is the same as hermitcraft with all of the mods and data packs included if you use the mob pack in

Single player it will be identical to my personal set of mods for playing on hermitcraft a link to the pack can be found in the description box down below Now we move on to World maintenance an administrative job the task of keeping the world in good health and this is one

Of the biggest jobs that I do and it’s called World pruning now over the course of a season players will explore the world which creates a lot of chunks and this in turn takes up a lot of hard disk space now most of what’s generated is not actually land that the player

Settles on through building a base or creating a farm and so a large portion of the world is actually unused and over a season this can really add up to a large World size so on a monthly basis what I do is take the server offline and

Then I prune the world this is the act of identifying chunks that have not been loaded for more than two minutes and in most cases then deleting them from the world you’ve got to be careful though but most of the time if a player has been in an area for more than two

Minutes it’s because they were doing something of value there and then this area is spared from being called by the world pruning and to do this I use an app called MCA selector it’s what you’ve just seen on the screen right now and like many of the other things talked

About in this video there’ll be a link to it in the description box below so over the course of a season this world pruning keeps the world size small and this means that we can keep more backups of the world and also when it comes to

You downloading it it’s going to be a reasonable size at the end of a season now another aspect of world maintenance that actually any player can undertake on the hermitcraft server is cleaning out caves we have a special data pack that enables the player to go exploring with their spectator cam it can

Highlight mobs that have picked up items and are just sitting around in caves and of course these mobs are using their path finding and their Ai and they’re taxing the server so with this data pack you can go in and clear out some of those mobs that are just taking up resources

Hopefully this gave you some ideas for what to do within your own Community what I’d like to do next is highlight a common theme these tools are solutions to existing problems seems obvious to say right but in the history of hermitcraft a purest approach to running a vanilla server held us back from

Optimizing performance gameplay interactivity and creativity at a point in time it became clear that each time a problem is discussed customizing the game to some extent could be a solution I think this mindset is important within a community when you see an obstacle or hurdle it’s easy to put up with it and

Just go around however some problems do have unseen Solutions it’s something to keep in mind as we move into our next discussion as this example relates to the technical but also to social problems too and that will be in the next chapter of this Trilogy a deep dive

On a social aspect of hermitcraft this mini-series is a part of my Minecraft discussions playlist which you should check out for any interesting videos you’re yet to see but also also in case Parts two and three are out when you’re watching this one it’s linked down below

And on that note thanks for watching leave a like to support the channel and I’ll see you in the next one