John Hall – How to make your own MC Eternal Modded Minecraft Server on Linux!

Hi my name is john hall and in this video i’m going to give you a quick tutorial on how to set up a dedicated mc eternal minecraft server on linux Since this video has no sponsor i wanted to take a quick second to tell you a little bit about a project that i’ve been working on every single video on my youtube channel that has done even remotely well has either been centered around my home lab or around minecraft

And because of that i started thinking what could i do to combine these two subjects and provide something to you the viewer that would actually be valuable the more i thought about it the more i realized that it could potentially be relatively difficult for somebody to run both a dedicated server

And the client side of a mod pack at the exact same time and so i realized already have the hardware thanks to my home lab to be able to run a whole bunch of these servers at the same time so why not set them up and just let you guys

Use them i currently have my main vanilla server and 15 modded minecraft servers up and running right now but by the end of this i plan to have well over 150 total servers running at once the goal of this project is simply to allow friends to be able to play with each

Other on a server without one of them having to take the incredible performance hit of actually having to run that server for themselves again this is totally free so please feel free to share the server information with whoever you think might actually use it okay back to the video all right now

Step one as with any minecraft server is to download java so the easiest way to do that is to open up a terminal and type in this command sudo apt-get install open jdk-8 jdk and that command by itself will install java 8 for you there it is okay

So now it’s installing java 8 for us and ask us if we want to use that space put in a yes and then from here we can go get the server files now the quickest and easy way to get the server files is to just

Open up a web page and go to curse forge go to curseforge we’re going to look at mod packs for minecraft get here we’re going to search for mc eternal we’ll be doing this first one right here you’re going to click on the mod pack itself

And then if you scroll down a little bit it’ll have a server pack here click the download file i will say i always try to keep my stuff organized so i’m going to create a new folder in my home directory called mc eternal to put

All of the uh server files in here and see how we’re doing looking good java is installed all right so now that’s done installing so let’s go move it to our folder and then we’re going to extract it once it has finished extracting we will open

Up and make a few changes inside of there alright so now we’ve got this folder here before we launch the server i do want to go ahead and edit the server properties so let’s open that up real fast a couple things we’re going to change in here we’re going to change the

Now there are a couple things we want to do in here the first thing we’re going to do is check our server port we’re going to change this for my purposes but you don’t necessarily have to all right now mc eternal comes with a launcher script for windows but not one for

For linux so what we’re going to do is adjust this one and make it for linux so let us we’re going to open it with text editor look at what we’ve got here it seems pretty easy uh we’re going to go ahead and copy this real fast then

And then close out of that we’re going to open text editor paste this in here we’re going to create a new one java the max new size we’re going to switch from 4 000 megabytes we’re going to change that to 8 gigs uh we’re that should be all we have to do

That should be the jar i do think it has to be dash no gui uh we’re going to save this and we’re going to save this as run.sh we’re going to save it inside of our server folder then we’re gonna need to make this script executable so click inside your

Server folder click open in terminal we’re gonna do chmod plus x and then run dot sh all right so now we should be able to just stop backslash run.sh and it looks like we’re starting up correctly sweet so that was pretty easy so for this server really all you have to do is

Install java make sure you have the right files and then launch it correctly you do have to create the script but that’s pretty easy considering it already gives you the one for windows all right sweet so once it starts up um the next step that you’re going to

Probably want to do is set up port forwarding for this server the easiest way to do that is inside of your server properties file you have a port in there that you set or that’s automatically two five five six five the easiest thing to

Do is to go into your router and set up for forwarding probably want to google or look up a youtube video for how to do that for your specific router it’s not a very difficult process but it is important to do if you want anybody outside of your

Local home network to be able to join your server so next we need to accept the mojang end user license agreement to do this all we have to do is open up this document it’s going to be false right here we change that to true control save

Close out of it and then we can run the server again now this time it’s actually going to start up completely so once the server starts up it’s up and running and you’re pretty much good to go there uh once you have poor forwarding set up anybody else outside of your network can

Also join so the only thing you’ll need to do in order for them to join is give them your public ip address to do that just google what is my public ip address it’ll be the same ip address for the entire home network that you’re on and

Then you can give that to your friends now if you do switch the port that you’re on you’re gonna need to make sure to give them a different port because minecraft by default will look for two five five six five so there you have it this entire server is set up and ready

To go if you have any questions feel free to leave those in the comments down below or you can hop in my discord we have a lot of people in there that answer questions and try to help you get your server set up if you’re having issues running the server by yourself or

If you just want to join a server with other people there will be an ip for this specific server that we’re setting up right now if you want to join it as well as numerous other servers that i’m in the process of setting up on some of my enterprise grade hardware so feel

Free to join that again completely and totally free if you want to and other than that that should be it i’ll see you guys in the next video