*** COMMON QUESTIONS! *** "How do I update my server to a new version?" Check out this video over on Crafty Controller's RUclips channel: ruclips.net/video/m6Bvtu85ApM/видео.htmlsi=3xGiGqpVFnwzIglP "Can I install mods?" / "How do I install mods?" I don't really care about modded Minecraft all that much, so I don't have a ton of experience here. From what I understand, you'll need to run a forge server, which you should be able to do following this guide: wiki.craftycontrol.com/en/4/docs/Getting%20Started#installing-forge-via-crafty-creation-tool
This video is really helpful. You should honestly do an update video on how to install mods to the server as well as how to import an already made singleplayer world into it.
@ivanmalinovski7807 really depends on your playerbase, two separate occasions either someone would generate all the chunks to fill in maps or players would just explore in a straight line. Most of the time it's the straight line and that just doesn't waste as much storage. I'd compromise at like 5k-10k prerendered and call it done.
How can I install Chunky?, I tried making a forge server and importing the .jar of the chunky mod, but then the server wasn't able to find the executable when trying to turn it on
@@eratosthenes3833 there's some chance someone would ask me how to do one, so instead of teaching them(it's not low budget on my country, so i can't test it) i'm gonna just share this link
For those who are using Debian 12.5 and up, for the terminal commands, I found that if I used sudo, the command wouldn't be 'found' but if I typed in the command as is without sudo, then it would work just fine.
Mine is saying not found. And when i leave out the sudo and just type in the apt update , it says can't open lock file, unable to lock directory and problem unlinking the file permission denied messages
@@kristoffertoyra9809 Not sure if this is too late but type "su -" this will change your user to the root user which is basically admin for linux. You should've have set a password the root account when installing debian. hope this helps!
this might have happened if you unselected "standard system utilities" during the debian installation. You can install sudo after the installation by typing apt install sudo
You could also run into problems if you set a password for the root user during the install. You can log in as root using "su" and start running sudo commands that way. Installing packages without sudo will most likely not work
Nice guide, thanks! Really liked the explanation of even obvious things! I personally would be interested in some video with explanation of all tricky staff related port forwarding and securing your private network when you doing the forwarding.
earlier today i was thinking about starting another mc server for my friends on discord and this just magically pops up in my recommended. this is a life saver so i dont have to port forward. love ya!
My friend and I actually did this same thing with an HP ProDesk 600 G3 Mini about 2 weeks ago. We set it up to run Plex and a Minecraft Bedrock Server. The server has 16GB Ram, 1TB NVMe, and we upgraded the CPU to a i7-7700T. The CPU upgrade really helped. I then wrote a really nice Batch\Powershell script to run once a day that shuts down the Minecraft Server. Creates a ZIP backup of any world that is named with the current date and time it was made. It will then delete any backups older than 7 days. Then finally it restarts the Minecraft Server.
Have you looked at FastBack(up)? It's a git-backed incremental backup mod for servers. Haven't tried it myself yet, but it would seem that it could enable more frequent backups for less space.
If youre actually making a public server, please set up a VLAN or a VxLAN and get an IP to the server through that and make sure its segmented differently than your home network.
could you explain how to do this in steps or perhaps point towards a guide? would like to setup a server using this tutorial for a discord community but not have them directly on my home network...upon segmenting and creating a VLAN - would that IP be what I enter into thr crafty controller?
VLAN's would be usually set up through your router settings meaning you would need something better than most ISP routers such as a custom-built router running PFsence and either you would have to deal with a dynamic DNS service provider or you would want to sign up for the business grade internet plan from whatever ISP is in your area so you could get a static IP, most residential internet plans have a dynamic IP assigned by DHCP meaning the IP address can change whereas business grade accounts and plans have the option to get static IPs which never change
Great video, love that you touched on hardware, setting up the OS and CasaOS, all the way down to connecting and sharing with friends! Awesome and comprehensive
CasaOS works perfectly, been using it since last year as my NAS, thing is super stable and has lots of features to it that just work as intended. I recommend it over TrueNAS but TrueNAS is more in depth and has more security features. EDIT: So far to my knowledge, CasaOS is a Debian docker image, and does not support software raid, meaning you will have to set a hardware raid on your server in order to have any redundancy, and then you use those logical volumes for CasaOS storage which is perfectly fine and works as intended. You can also set a raid volume on your Debian machine on which you intend on running CasaOS container but it is much less work to just set it as a hardware raid if you have the ability to do so.
Quick note. For Debian 12, the initial GUI walked me through installing GRUB. I left the default values and it's working. Also, Debian 12 didn't come with the sudo command so I had to install it to get the command to run from a copy/paste. Overall great video, easy to follow!
Woah, this is gonna make my life so much easier! I've been doing things all through the terminal having to use screen sessions and stuff and it's such a pain. Thank you for showing this off!
Fantastic video!! One more BIOS change people should look for is anything that halts the startup if keyboard or VGA is missing. For a laptop, might even check BIOS for sleep options and disable sleeping when the laptop is closed.
I followed all the steps until I installed Debian. After reading your comment about having a laptop, I realized that I did not change any settings in the BIOS to prevent the laptop from going into sleep mode when it was closed. Is there any way to go back and correct this?
@@AlexAdventureTV you should be able to get into BIOS during any boot. Probably pressing Esc, F1, F10, F12, Del just after you boot... Varies by computer and you might need to Google your laptop model.
Got the same pc. Stuffed in 32GB of RAM, 500GB Nvme, 500GB ssd and two old spinning rust drives for 2.5TB total storage. Proxmox with windows 10 VM for Valhiem/Dayz/Conan server (not all running at the same time). LMDE6 vm with a Radeon pro wx 3100 using pci passthrough for youtube on my tv and a PiHole LXC. Works pretty good!
Hah you only came to brag about what's hidden under the hood of the old elitedesk. Nice setup tho. For this pricepoint you could cluster together 6-8 default elitedesks, and have a stronger machine.
I don’t plan on making minecraft servers but I can’t stop watching these videos because it’s so fascinating to see these little machines work. Something about them is so captivating to me.
honestly dude this video came out at the PERFECT time, Ive been looking to host a mc server with my community sometimes for gamenights and this is exactly what i need!
I use playit with my pterodactyl server. I have loved the service so far, but some thing to consider is that it seems to be solely operated by one person so support for it can be spotty (through forums or discord). There was an issue a while back where their internal databases crashed when the person to fix it was out of town and had no access remotely, so if I'm not mistaken it took a day or two to fix. There's also the issue that as the service grows it might become a target for ddos attacks. Which with one person, it might be harder to anticipate and implement counter measures or mitigations for. I think I'll stick with playit, but if any of the issues mentioned is a big problem for you, ngrok is an alternative. Set up is a little more advanced than playit, but I imagine they are better staffed so support for issues will be quickly addressed.
This is exactly what I was planning on doing!!! Even with an elitedesk hahah, I have been watching a lot of your videos that have been helping me to understand this things of self hosting!! Thank you in advance, I'll be doing this hopefully next month!
Hello, huge fan of your content! Just a quick tip, if people dont want to set static ip to the casaos, and don't want to meddle with the router settings to find the right ip, they can use advanced ip scanner, (portable or not doesnt matter), they can search the ip of the devices and most of the time it will write in the description what that ip is for. Its very easy to use and saves a lot of trouble!
Super impressed with how simple this whole process is, and how polished Casa and Crafty look! Been playing around with it today and I'm really happy with it, thanks man :)
@@HeieiX It does support reverse proxies. Their documentation even has guides for many of the main reverse proxies. I set mine up with Nginx Proxy Manager and it just worked fine.
@@rafing2163 Not unless you have an insane amount of traffic on your server or get DDoSed. If you're not handing out the URL to your server to random people, that shouldn't be a huge issue.
This was awesome. I'm trying to figure out how to do this for a long time. But now it's so much easier. I've never been good at port forwarding and tunnels and all that but now it seems like it's going to be so simple. I've got a bunch of kids that want to play Minecraft with my son so this will be perfect
So very cool! Didn't even know about crafty controller...manually installed into docker...got it running...trying to install forge for my daughter...boy howdy is there ALOT to that install! Thanks so much for this...I have it running on a HP EliteDesk 705 G2 MINI w/ 8GB RAM and AMD PRO A8-8600B R6 4C+6G (4) @ 1.600GHz processor I got online from EBAY a while back for like $100~, and a 128GB SSD..runs Debian 12 like a boss! Keep em coming!!!!
On the subject of game servers, I'd love to see you talk about making an at home game server for game devs! I know there's cloud services like AWS or Linode but having your own personal server that you have complete control over seems like the best option. I've been trying to put together one but always end up getting stuck at making the server available to outside networks. Also helps for just small testing so I don't eat up my free trial of AWS too.
Pterodactyl is great and works (theoretically) with any game. As for making it available to the internet, depending on what you want to expose, youll have more or less luck. ive personally spent a few days reverse proxying my entire pterodactyl setup (panel, wings and game servers), for which there exists really no documentation. even now i still have to deal with individual issues from game servers, like source engine games showing my public ip as the server host instead of the proxy ip.
I personally use ngrok for reverse proxy. It's as simple as 'ngrok tcp 25565' for a public java server and for a web page it's http instead of tcp. When sharing web pages you can even lock it with Google auth by requiring the user to use the same google account in the allowed email list
Pretty in depth yet kinda requires some knowledge for safety reasons and error troubleshooting, I use LXC on my proxmox server which comes with prebuilt turnkey utilities yet I use vanilla base debian 10, 11 or even 12 for my servers and it naturally skips the installation process of debian and network configuring in terminal (etxc/network/interfaces). Like your tutorial and Crafty Controller is THE BEST Minecraft server panel and hosting method. 10/10
Thank you for this video step by step. I saw crafty on your other videos and I installed it for some weeks now. It much easier than manage spigot building server. Thank for the discovery too.
This came at a good time. I've hosted Minecraft servers before just with the basic way of doing it on Windows which is not hard. And recently, I added an Ubuntu virtual machine to my NAS and went through the process of running a Minecraft server in Ubuntu. Well it was going great but then I tried to VNC into my VM a few days later and the whole thing crashed, deleting the server entirely. And I have no idea what I'm doing in Ubuntu so I don't even know if it's recoverable. So yeah I think I'm going to keep my Ubuntu install but use CasaOS and Crafty, since that seems much easier and more my speed. Even following a tutorial, setting up a server via Ubuntu in the terminal was a nightmare.
This channel really blew up since the last time I watched it, I followed the ubuntu server how to back when he had 45k subscribers 😂. Congrats on the 180k🎉
Just got to say, what an amazing video!! I have a old Xeon E5 from aliexpress that i was not using and decided to create my server on it. For now on, I'll try to use it for every game that I play!
Just thought I’d bring this up, but hypixel currently has free smp servers (up to 10 ppl I think) if you have a rank vip+ and above. It’s like 15 bucks and I’ve been using it for a couple weeks now. No need to worry about power costs with it. Also you don’t need a rank to join the smp that someone created. It lowers their costs by shutting off the internal server when no one is on this. So it has to start back up once the first player joins after it’s been off for a bit. Still incredible since anyone can access it at any time.
Can be tidious to set up for those who don't know how to with linux sadly. It's made more for hosting on scale than small basement servers. But works wonderfully if set up well!
@@domiibunnthere's a unofficial install script that does everything for you but unfortunately you need to own an actual domain to use pterodactyl, other than that it's really easy to set up
I'm having an issue just after installing Debian 12: After the computer reboots and the Linux terminal should open, it instead an empty black screen with a flashing underscore in the top left shows. In the video there is much more information displayed there (11:10). No matter what I type in nothing ever happens. The only thing I've done differently than the tutorial is just before the end of Debian's installation when it prompted me to install GRUB and even after requesting it not to be installed it, installs anyway. Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this? Thanks.
@@smg_collin5146 It is one of the components installed automatically in the installation process. It is not shown in the video however as it is set to install by default. If you disabled GRUB while installing, you will need to start the process over.
Mate your videos are amazing keep it up i followed your video "Building A Minecraft Server With 12 Year Old PC" on a Samsung laptop from 2009 and omg it just worked amazingly!
this is actually nice, since I already have a spare computer I commonly nickname "the server", gonna see if some of my friends are up to the idea of having a MC server again.
My sudo commands aren't working. All I get is "-bash: sudo: command not found." Does anyone know the fix? Edit: I have fixed this issue by first typing in "su" to make myself root. Then "apt install" "apt update" "apt upgrade" and so on. All commands only worked when I removed the word sudo including the casaos link address. Hopefully this helps for people that had the sme problem
Straight up Thank you for this, after spending most of a Saturday trying to cut and paste Linux commands from various articles splattered throughout the internet trying to make a server for my two children to play on your video made all the difference now I have a reliable server that will restart after a power outage itself and also make a backup without any fuss. My only complaint is that home assistant run and docker form cannot do a lot of the add-ons I would like it to because I'd like to make this server multifaceted. you did a phenomenal job explaining and showing what needed to happen. Thanks again
I do not get a plugins folder when I make a server. When I make a plugins folder and out the playit plugin into that folder I do not see the playit URL.
@kyleramsey4627 good chance you guys tried to run a different server like vanilla. To use mods or plugins you'll need to run a server like paper or fabric, etc.
13:39 an alternate option if you don't want or can't access the router to fix the ip is just set to the server a static IP outside the range of DHCP but inside the subnet, usually the router only reservers something between 32 to 100 ips for the DHCP from the 253 availble ips (the 254th is the router, as gateway)
Literally inspired me to run a Minecraft server on my laptop that doesn't get much use anymore. Was trying to figure out how to make the server public because I didn't feel like setting up port forwarding. Now all my friends I totally have can play Minecraft on my server. Thanks Hardware Haven!
You've quickly become one of my favorite RUclipsr's! Keep it up. Your content is interesting, well edited and informative!! I'm gonna look into this and see id something easy exists for setting up Valheim game server s in a similar fashion.
Thank you so much for this guide! I've been searching a long time for a solution for a decent server that I don't need to pay (monthly) for. I also didn't want to bother with the linux coding etc. so this really saved me!! Thanks!
Very awesome and easy to follow tutorial. Thank you!! I like that you ran into this bug even though it's fixed now for one major reason: If you partition /home separate from /, then the workaround you have for the bug is also an easy way to move the server data onto the correct partition. The bug is fixed now btw, but please keep this around even if you do update the video as it's really useful info.
12:03, you could have also just pressed enter and that will do the default (which is y, which is shown be the capital letter Y where it said [Y/n]) EDIT: 13:37 you can also just set a static IP, which would be the same for everyone then.
Ups have to realize that this video is for people that might’ve never heard of a static or dynamic IP. If I explain setting a static IP, I need to also show how to see what the current DHCP range is to prevent conflicts. Sometimes I do things a certain way to make a tutorial simple and concise
@@TomTKK If I explain each and every way that one could configure a sever, the video would be hours long. It's always a trade off and you have to decide what to keep and what to cut.
Is playit gg safe? 34:51 What I understood is that my whole server has to go trough a playit gg server before coming to my server, does that not mean they could just dowbload my world, or stop it by not sending it making nothing save? Does anybody know?
Use paper or similar only AND ONLY if you're a casual player that doesn't make farm or redstone contraptions. Paper breaks vanilla mechanics even with the least amount of settings. Just use a normal fabric performance server modpack to achieve better performance and 100% vanilla mechanics coverage so your contraptions and farms will always 100% work as intended.
Love this. Last year I was running a modded fabric server with 20 people playing on it on POP OS. While I love pop os it eats 3-4GB out of 16 of the memory I need for my minecraft server. Plus I had do backups, edits, restarts and everything else manually. Not to mention I had to get up and go into another room then turn on the TV to re-configure the server every so often. With this I just run it and I can access everything from my main PC! BTW it looks like that issue crafty had with casa os has now been resolved but I still changed the file locations because I thought they made more sense.
After a server restart it seems that casaOS is still running but I can't access the web ui. CasaOS's wiki is useless contains just a few paragraphs of information and no mention or troubleshooting Edit: Did a complete reinstall of casaOS and now I can turn my server off and on without issues. Idk why it messed up before
Oh my! I tweaked withg Casa OS and really loved it, but was just a random test to see how it worked, since i don't have a decent spaer computer for it. Now with your tutorial, it will be much easier to create a server to play with my friends ^ ^
I lucked out and found a 5825u mini pc for $200. Plenty fast to run minecraft. Thank you for this tutorial. I had no idea so many of these solutions existed! Makes deploying the thing a whole lot easier.
Great video. I can't believe I watched this video when I don't need a minecraft Sever, but I ended up watching the whole thing. Great information and facts Givin Def was worth watching
If you’re getting an issue saying “command not found” try using the command without Sudo. Example “apt update” if that doesn’t work and it says could not open lock file, then type “su root” and the password you put in once prompted. You’ll then have full access and type “apt install sudo” and you can resume with the tutorial.
This is extremely informative, thanks for putting it together! Ive been wanting to explore Linux as sort of a side project and doing it through minecraft is excellent. We've been paying hosting for minecraft servers for years and I'd like to not anymore. I'm a totally newbie to all this so the concise and detailed explanation is extremely appreciated.
Excellent production quality. Fantastic topic and walk-through. Next project ideas! How about something on setting up your own, local ChatGPT instance via ollama?
If you're planning on buying a system to host a Minecraft server, I'd recommend a older gen server. I was able to get my hands on a Dell PowerEdge R620 for just about $135 + free shipping on Ebay. The R620 I got had 32 GB of RAM and 24 cores (it has 2 CPUs so 12 cores per CPU), and it has 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports. It didn't come with any hard drives though, but for 135 I'm not complaining.
I have followed all steps and it works! I can now play with my friends without having to pay for a host! I did buy a mini pc but that's just a one time expense hah.
All these GUI tools are interesting, and I do respect the work put into them by the developers. But on the other hand, isn't it a lot simpler to learn how to navigate your way around the filesystem using a terminal, making the entire process a lot shorter and, in a way, more convenient? Especially for a project that is DIY and self-hosting oriented, it's important to learn a little bit about what you're doing to not expose your computer and network to danger.
This video is done to complete beginners who aren't even good at their main operating system. So throwing them into the pit of "do sudo -rm -rf ./" is not a good thing. Also, learning unix just for starting game servers is kinda meh (I did that back in 2012).
14:04 You don't need to plug a keyboard and monitor back in so long as you just take a note of the MAC address of the network interface. You can then find it via rhe router. Allocating a specific IP for it is better though
Nice. I have an older but still pretty powerful Dell edge tower server with duel 6 core xeons. I'm gonna get this set up with a couple of different servers. Thank you!
You don't actually need to change the boot order in the BIOS. Just hitting (in your case) F10 to get the boot menu, you select the USB and directly boot it. Changing the order is only really necessary when you have multiple drives with different OSes installed that you switch occasionally.
I just did this! And I'm only sort of a geek mom - not a super geek. We bought a used a computer/server from a local computer repair store and set it up ourselves. This will save us so much $ for the minecraft experience. Thanks so much for the video - it turned into a great Sunday family project! I did discover a new thing. There is an issue with the Crafty login password in July. Admin/crafty is no longer the UN and pw to log in the first time... instead - the crafty password is found on the Casa drive - in files, app data, crafty, config, default creds. copy and paste the password in that ... and once into Crafty then update the password.
You don’t need that much storage if you do regular world cleanings, whether it be full world resets or frequent trimming of chunks… but as someone who has played on a server that has existed for some years that hasn’t done any world resets since it first was created and only trims off chunks every long while, that server needs at least a 512GB drive and likely 1TB at some point. Not for a while but likely at some point. Lower options are good early on though, just saying it might be worth while to get a good higher storage option when on sale for stuff like Black Friday if you decide to be more of a “build a history of a world over time” kind of server host.
I did pterodactyl, and I'm somewhat proud and more satisfied than using a NAS-style OS. I like linuxing and it's very scalable. I used a script too, set up a DDNS and SSL over that domain
First of all, Big fan of your videos ❤ This was awesome tutorial how to get CasaOS going on my Elitedesk 800 G2 SFF, before I ran just typical Windows 10 on it to run my Minecraft server with Playit. This tutoral made my life lot easyer, because I ran seperately Pi-Hole on Rasberry pi, now it`s 2in1 on CasaOS. Works all really well, zero fails and easy to manage thru Chrome. Thanks a lot ✨
Nice video, will need to try it out some time, as I've always been launching minecraft servers on linux by just playing around with files and console. Also you can assign the static IP address to the server, it will skip the process of searching for your router setting of reserving the IP address, the only required thing would be to take out this IP from the DHCP range, which is not rly mandatory.
*** COMMON QUESTIONS! ***
"How do I update my server to a new version?"
Check out this video over on Crafty Controller's RUclips channel: ruclips.net/video/m6Bvtu85ApM/видео.htmlsi=3xGiGqpVFnwzIglP
"Can I install mods?" / "How do I install mods?"
I don't really care about modded Minecraft all that much, so I don't have a ton of experience here. From what I understand, you'll need to run a forge server, which you should be able to do following this guide: wiki.craftycontrol.com/en/4/docs/Getting%20Started#installing-forge-via-crafty-creation-tool
Can i use thiis as a cracked server and how
if i can
Can i install the os on ubuntu server?
This video is really helpful. You should honestly do an update video on how to install mods to the server as well as how to import an already made singleplayer world into it.
@@Canerognoso Yea I just this using Ubuntu Server instead of Debian. Has worked so far for me.
@@Canerognoso да можно 👌
Hey that's us! Glad you're enjoying the software so far! 😊
do you know how i would start casaos after rebooting my machine?
@@Lilly_PKwhich one? The machine that hosts the server or the one that you use to access the Server?
@@ypk1580 the machine with casaos on it
The machine in which the server is hosted
How do we upgrade crafty now? ( Version: 4.2.2 to 4.2.3)
You could use chunky to pre generate chunks to reduce lag spikes at playtime
Fair warning if you pregen too much, storage racks up decently fast
@@jocerv43 It's gonna rack up anyway, so you might as well do it in advance.
@ivanmalinovski7807 really depends on your playerbase, two separate occasions either someone would generate all the chunks to fill in maps or players would just explore in a straight line. Most of the time it's the straight line and that just doesn't waste as much storage. I'd compromise at like 5k-10k prerendered and call it done.
How can I install Chunky?, I tried making a forge server and importing the .jar of the chunky mod, but then the server wasn't able to find the executable when trying to turn it on
@nombrebacan6289 if you only need a vanilla world might be easier to use bukkit/paper jar and use the plugin version of chunky to pregen your world
Me who doesn't plan to make a Minecraft server:
Hmmm yes interesting.
Exactly. Haha
@eratosthenes3833 This is exactly why I never do anything other than absorb information. I may start on it, but I'll never finish what I started.
@@eratosthenes3833 there's some chance someone would ask me how to do one, so instead of teaching them(it's not low budget on my country, so i can't test it) i'm gonna just share this link
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maybe i might make my own Minecraft server one day
My sons (9yo&5yo) will think I’m some networking/Minecraft server genius now! Thank you!
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Dream dad.
Can you adopt me (i have 4 computers)
For those who are using Debian 12.5 and up, for the terminal commands, I found that if I used sudo, the command wouldn't be 'found' but if I typed in the command as is without sudo, then it would work just fine.
Mine is saying not found. And when i leave out the sudo and just type in the apt update , it says can't open lock file, unable to lock directory and problem unlinking the file permission denied messages
@@LadyTGamingStreamz i have the same issue, any solution?
@@kristoffertoyra9809 Not sure if this is too late but type "su -" this will change your user to the root user which is basically admin for linux. You should've have set a password the root account when installing debian. hope this helps!
this might have happened if you unselected "standard system utilities" during the debian installation. You can install sudo after the installation by typing apt install sudo
You could also run into problems if you set a password for the root user during the install. You can log in as root using "su" and start running sudo commands that way. Installing packages without sudo will most likely not work
Nice guide, thanks! Really liked the explanation of even obvious things! I personally would be interested in some video with explanation of all tricky staff related port forwarding and securing your private network when you doing the forwarding.
Jeah this is some important information. However he explains which button you need to press to get to UEFI 😂
earlier today i was thinking about starting another mc server for my friends on discord and this just magically pops up in my recommended. this is a life saver so i dont have to port forward. love ya!
How does everyone have a extra computer they can use that’s some bs
@@Shadow-oi6kjSome people have really old laptops or a home pc and a laptop for not being home
@@Shadow-oi6kjidk man ive got shitty 50$ pcs from like 2010
@Shadow-oi6kj dude I have commercial servers rotting in my storage shed. They were free.
@@CodyRPierce yeah but it depends by how much ram they give you.
My friend and I actually did this same thing with an HP ProDesk 600 G3 Mini about 2 weeks ago. We set it up to run Plex and a Minecraft Bedrock Server. The server has 16GB Ram, 1TB NVMe, and we upgraded the CPU to a i7-7700T. The CPU upgrade really helped. I then wrote a really nice Batch\Powershell script to run once a day that shuts down the Minecraft Server. Creates a ZIP backup of any world that is named with the current date and time it was made. It will then delete any backups older than 7 days. Then finally it restarts the Minecraft Server.
Have you looked at FastBack(up)? It's a git-backed incremental backup mod for servers. Haven't tried it myself yet, but it would seem that it could enable more frequent backups for less space.
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I'd love some advice on this since I'm going to be using this exact pc!
If youre actually making a public server, please set up a VLAN or a VxLAN and get an IP to the server through that and make sure its segmented differently than your home network.
how
I think by port forwarding
could you explain how to do this in steps or perhaps point towards a guide? would like to setup a server using this tutorial for a discord community but not have them directly on my home network...upon segmenting and creating a VLAN - would that IP be what I enter into thr crafty controller?
VLAN's would be usually set up through your router settings meaning you would need something better than most ISP routers such as a custom-built router running PFsence and either you would have to deal with a dynamic DNS service provider or you would want to sign up for the business grade internet plan from whatever ISP is in your area so you could get a static IP, most residential internet plans have a dynamic IP assigned by DHCP meaning the IP address can change whereas business grade accounts and plans have the option to get static IPs which never change
YESSSS this!!!!
Great video, love that you touched on hardware, setting up the OS and CasaOS, all the way down to connecting and sharing with friends! Awesome and comprehensive
CasaOS works perfectly, been using it since last year as my NAS, thing is super stable and has lots of features to it that just work as intended.
I recommend it over TrueNAS but TrueNAS is more in depth and has more security features.
EDIT:
So far to my knowledge, CasaOS is a Debian docker image, and does not support software raid, meaning you will have to set a hardware raid on your server in order to have any redundancy, and then you use those logical volumes for CasaOS storage which is perfectly fine and works as intended.
You can also set a raid volume on your Debian machine on which you intend on running CasaOS container but it is much less work to just set it as a hardware raid if you have the ability to do so.
Quick note. For Debian 12, the initial GUI walked me through installing GRUB. I left the default values and it's working. Also, Debian 12 didn't come with the sudo command so I had to install it to get the command to run from a copy/paste.
Overall great video, easy to follow!
How did you do that?
@@Cruzzzador sudo sudo
sudo is a unix command (linux is a unix like/based operating system)
Woah, this is gonna make my life so much easier! I've been doing things all through the terminal having to use screen sessions and stuff and it's such a pain. Thank you for showing this off!
Fantastic video!! One more BIOS change people should look for is anything that halts the startup if keyboard or VGA is missing. For a laptop, might even check BIOS for sleep options and disable sleeping when the laptop is closed.
I followed all the steps until I installed Debian. After reading your comment about having a laptop, I realized that I did not change any settings in the BIOS to prevent the laptop from going into sleep mode when it was closed. Is there any way to go back and correct this?
@@AlexAdventureTV you should be able to get into BIOS during any boot. Probably pressing Esc, F1, F10, F12, Del just after you boot... Varies by computer and you might need to Google your laptop model.
Your original Minecraft server video is what got me into home labs, so thank you very much.
Got the same pc. Stuffed in 32GB of RAM, 500GB Nvme, 500GB ssd and two old spinning rust drives for 2.5TB total storage. Proxmox with windows 10 VM for Valhiem/Dayz/Conan server (not all running at the same time). LMDE6 vm with a Radeon pro wx 3100 using pci passthrough for youtube on my tv and a PiHole LXC. Works pretty good!
Hah you only came to brag about what's hidden under the hood of the old elitedesk. Nice setup tho. For this pricepoint you could cluster together 6-8 default elitedesks, and have a stronger machine.
I don’t plan on making minecraft servers but I can’t stop watching these videos because it’s so fascinating to see these little machines work. Something about them is so captivating to me.
I have not seen such great quality tutorial in a long time
I agree without shred of doubts
honestly dude this video came out at the PERFECT time, Ive been looking to host a mc server with my community sometimes for gamenights and this is exactly what i need!
Lets go, thank you ive been waiting for a new updated video like this. For about 3 years/ the last time you made one of these. All goes to you
I use playit with my pterodactyl server. I have loved the service so far, but some thing to consider is that it seems to be solely operated by one person so support for it can be spotty (through forums or discord). There was an issue a while back where their internal databases crashed when the person to fix it was out of town and had no access remotely, so if I'm not mistaken it took a day or two to fix.
There's also the issue that as the service grows it might become a target for ddos attacks. Which with one person, it might be harder to anticipate and implement counter measures or mitigations for.
I think I'll stick with playit, but if any of the issues mentioned is a big problem for you, ngrok is an alternative. Set up is a little more advanced than playit, but I imagine they are better staffed so support for issues will be quickly addressed.
commenting just to come back to this
This is exactly what I was planning on doing!!! Even with an elitedesk hahah, I have been watching a lot of your videos that have been helping me to understand this things of self hosting!!
Thank you in advance, I'll be doing this hopefully next month!
Hello, huge fan of your content! Just a quick tip, if people dont want to set static ip to the casaos, and don't want to meddle with the router settings to find the right ip, they can use advanced ip scanner, (portable or not doesnt matter), they can search the ip of the devices and most of the time it will write in the description what that ip is for. Its very easy to use and saves a lot of trouble!
Is Hardware Haven becoming more.... crafty?
Eyo! You should write my titles for me!
@@HardwareHaven I should! Why do you think Asustor pays me? I do their English work in addition to brand management. Lmao
🤔
giving mining rig a whole new meaning
Easyware
Super impressed with how simple this whole process is, and how polished Casa and Crafty look! Been playing around with it today and I'm really happy with it, thanks man :)
I've been using crafty since v3.0 and it's a very good a trusty panel for minecraft hosting
Good to hear! I haven’t been using it quite that long but it’s been really solid
It doesn’t have support for reverse proxy?
@@HeieiX It does support reverse proxies. Their documentation even has guides for many of the main reverse proxies. I set mine up with Nginx Proxy Manager and it just worked fine.
Bro will this server cause internet issues i mean can it affect my wifi ?
@@rafing2163 Not unless you have an insane amount of traffic on your server or get DDoSed. If you're not handing out the URL to your server to random people, that shouldn't be a huge issue.
Thanks!
W
Amazing. I was thinking of setting up a minecraft home server for my son. Great video, THANKS!!
Amazing tutorial. Not just setting up a server but just as a tutorial in general. Thank you!
This was awesome. I'm trying to figure out how to do this for a long time. But now it's so much easier. I've never been good at port forwarding and tunnels and all that but now it seems like it's going to be so simple. I've got a bunch of kids that want to play Minecraft with my son so this will be perfect
So very cool! Didn't even know about crafty controller...manually installed into docker...got it running...trying to install forge for my daughter...boy howdy is there ALOT to that install!
Thanks so much for this...I have it running on a HP EliteDesk 705 G2 MINI w/ 8GB RAM and AMD PRO A8-8600B R6 4C+6G (4) @ 1.600GHz processor I got online from EBAY a while back for like $100~, and a 128GB SSD..runs Debian 12 like a boss!
Keep em coming!!!!
wow you got fucking stealed
On the subject of game servers, I'd love to see you talk about making an at home game server for game devs! I know there's cloud services like AWS or Linode but having your own personal server that you have complete control over seems like the best option. I've been trying to put together one but always end up getting stuck at making the server available to outside networks. Also helps for just small testing so I don't eat up my free trial of AWS too.
Pterodactyl is great and works (theoretically) with any game. As for making it available to the internet, depending on what you want to expose, youll have more or less luck. ive personally spent a few days reverse proxying my entire pterodactyl setup (panel, wings and game servers), for which there exists really no documentation. even now i still have to deal with individual issues from game servers, like source engine games showing my public ip as the server host instead of the proxy ip.
@@doopiewop3834 I'll take a look into that, thanks!
I personally use ngrok for reverse proxy. It's as simple as 'ngrok tcp 25565' for a public java server and for a web page it's http instead of tcp. When sharing web pages you can even lock it with Google auth by requiring the user to use the same google account in the allowed email list
I created minecraft server using termux on my local network
@@Anime_weeb06 same. I made a 1.20.1 forge server
Pretty in depth yet kinda requires some knowledge for safety reasons and error troubleshooting, I use LXC on my proxmox server which comes with prebuilt turnkey utilities yet I use vanilla base debian 10, 11 or even 12 for my servers and it naturally skips the installation process of debian and network configuring in terminal (etxc/network/interfaces).
Like your tutorial and Crafty Controller is THE BEST Minecraft server panel and hosting method.
10/10
DHCP Reserve Leases are always a good option. Same with Static IPs and if you static IP it make sure its outside the DHCP scope of your router.
How can I do this if I reserved my IP already?
@@Acrobia reserve is usually handled in the router.
@@GhostieXV Oh! Do you mean like installing? Isc-dhcp-server?
@@Acrobia no on the DHCP settings of your router you can reserve your IP leases there.
Depending on what kind of router your home network has. They will vary by brand
Thank you for this video step by step.
I saw crafty on your other videos and I installed it for some weeks now. It much easier than manage spigot building server.
Thank for the discovery too.
Got this set up and it's working great! I've always wanted to run a server on linux with scheduled backups. Thanks for making this!
This came at a good time. I've hosted Minecraft servers before just with the basic way of doing it on Windows which is not hard. And recently, I added an Ubuntu virtual machine to my NAS and went through the process of running a Minecraft server in Ubuntu. Well it was going great but then I tried to VNC into my VM a few days later and the whole thing crashed, deleting the server entirely. And I have no idea what I'm doing in Ubuntu so I don't even know if it's recoverable. So yeah I think I'm going to keep my Ubuntu install but use CasaOS and Crafty, since that seems much easier and more my speed. Even following a tutorial, setting up a server via Ubuntu in the terminal was a nightmare.
just spent 5hrs making a vanilla server in ubuntu with just a terminal and permanently running in issues. youre a heaven sent angel
This channel really blew up since the last time I watched it, I followed the ubuntu server how to back when he had 45k subscribers 😂. Congrats on the 180k🎉
Just got to say, what an amazing video!! I have a old Xeon E5 from aliexpress that i was not using and decided to create my server on it. For now on, I'll try to use it for every game that I play!
Why am i watching this
Same 😂
When silk song ?!
@@maitreaco never
RUclips algorithm got us
You probably clicked on the video
Just thought I’d bring this up, but hypixel currently has free smp servers (up to 10 ppl I think) if you have a rank vip+ and above. It’s like 15 bucks and I’ve been using it for a couple weeks now. No need to worry about power costs with it. Also you don’t need a rank to join the smp that someone created. It lowers their costs by shutting off the internal server when no one is on this. So it has to start back up once the first player joins after it’s been off for a bit. Still incredible since anyone can access it at any time.
This is cool! But not for those that want to operate a real server
You should use pterodactyl panel,because is also based on docker and is more complete
Can be tidious to set up for those who don't know how to with linux sadly.
It's made more for hosting on scale than small basement servers. But works wonderfully if set up well!
@@domiibunnthere's a unofficial install script that does everything for you but unfortunately you need to own an actual domain to use pterodactyl, other than that it's really easy to set up
THANK YOU!
Your old tutorial was fantastic and this one looks even better!
I'm having an issue just after installing Debian 12:
After the computer reboots and the Linux terminal should open, it instead an empty black screen with a flashing underscore in the top left shows. In the video there is much more information displayed there (11:10). No matter what I type in nothing ever happens. The only thing I've done differently than the tutorial is just before the end of Debian's installation when it prompted me to install GRUB and even after requesting it not to be installed it, installs anyway.
Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this?
Thanks.
You’ll need to do the install again, but you do need to install GRUB. I thought that was the default option but maybe it’s not
@@HardwareHaven Thanks for the speedy reply, yes that was the fix. Not sure why I thought installing GRUB would mess with the install.
@@ProjectBuddle Hey maybe you can help me, how do you install "Grub". there's literally nothing online about how to install it with debian.
@@smg_collin5146 It is one of the components installed automatically in the installation process. It is not shown in the video however as it is set to install by default. If you disabled GRUB while installing, you will need to start the process over.
Mate your videos are amazing keep it up i followed your video "Building A Minecraft Server With 12 Year Old PC" on a Samsung laptop from 2009 and omg it just worked amazingly!
can you use the playit on a modded version of Minecraft since plugins aren't supported on the forge or fabric loader
this is actually nice, since I already have a spare computer I commonly nickname "the server", gonna see if some of my friends are up to the idea of having a MC server again.
My sudo commands aren't working. All I get is "-bash: sudo: command not found." Does anyone know the fix?
Edit: I have fixed this issue by first typing in "su" to make myself root. Then "apt install" "apt update" "apt upgrade" and so on. All commands only worked when I removed the word sudo including the casaos link address. Hopefully this helps for people that had the sme problem
Go into su then run apt-get install sudo
Straight up Thank you for this, after spending most of a Saturday trying to cut and paste Linux commands from various articles splattered throughout the internet trying to make a server for my two children to play on your video made all the difference now I have a reliable server that will restart after a power outage itself and also make a backup without any fuss.
My only complaint is that home assistant run and docker form cannot do a lot of the add-ons I would like it to because I'd like to make this server multifaceted. you did a phenomenal job explaining and showing what needed to happen.
Thanks again
I do not get a plugins folder when I make a server. When I make a plugins folder and out the playit plugin into that folder I do not see the playit URL.
me neither
@kyleramsey4627 good chance you guys tried to run a different server like vanilla. To use mods or plugins you'll need to run a server like paper or fabric, etc.
@@robertpluijmert138 I made a fabric server type since I want to run a resource pack on the whole server but I still dont have a pugins folder
13:39 an alternate option if you don't want or can't access the router to fix the ip is just set to the server a static IP outside the range of DHCP but inside the subnet, usually the router only reservers something between 32 to 100 ips for the DHCP from the 253 availble ips (the 254th is the router, as gateway)
never gave us the links
Just type them. It’s on the screen and he says most of them out loud
I come from AMP which is often called the easiest game panel but this one is for sure easier and straight forward! Nice video.
i keep getting manifest unknown when trying to download crafty
Literally inspired me to run a Minecraft server on my laptop that doesn't get much use anymore. Was trying to figure out how to make the server public because I didn't feel like setting up port forwarding. Now all my friends I totally have can play Minecraft on my server. Thanks Hardware Haven!
How can they play on your server, you share with them your public IP?
@@Psithuris_- Did you watch the video? lol
you look like you about to cry bruh
You've quickly become one of my favorite RUclipsr's! Keep it up. Your content is interesting, well edited and informative!! I'm gonna look into this and see id something easy exists for setting up Valheim game server s in a similar fashion.
Great video! Used information to deploy to a Mac mini (Late 2014) and an older HP desktop Pavilion. Worked perfectly Thank you!
Thank you so much for this guide! I've been searching a long time for a solution for a decent server that I don't need to pay (monthly) for. I also didn't want to bother with the linux coding etc. so this really saved me!!
Thanks!
Very awesome and easy to follow tutorial. Thank you!! I like that you ran into this bug even though it's fixed now for one major reason: If you partition /home separate from /, then the workaround you have for the bug is also an easy way to move the server data onto the correct partition. The bug is fixed now btw, but please keep this around even if you do update the video as it's really useful info.
Congratulations on the amazing tutorial! I didn't know about the CasaOS and Crafity projects. What amazing projects! Thanks a lot!
I have to say Crafty is one of the easiest to setup and use. I have it running on my UNRAID server thru Docker. Great video!!
Thank you so much for making an easier tutorial than your other one with the Compaq PC 🤝
12:03, you could have also just pressed enter and that will do the default (which is y, which is shown be the capital letter Y where it said [Y/n])
EDIT: 13:37 you can also just set a static IP, which would be the same for everyone then.
Ups have to realize that this video is for people that might’ve never heard of a static or dynamic IP. If I explain setting a static IP, I need to also show how to see what the current DHCP range is to prevent conflicts. Sometimes I do things a certain way to make a tutorial simple and concise
@@HardwareHaven I didn’t really think any further about it, good point then.
@@HardwareHaven DDNS is pretty simple to install once you create one via noIP website
@@TomTKK If I explain each and every way that one could configure a sever, the video would be hours long. It's always a trade off and you have to decide what to keep and what to cut.
Brilliant tutorial, just what i have been after. Thank you!
Is playit gg safe? 34:51
What I understood is that my whole server has to go trough a playit gg server before coming to my server, does that not mean they could just dowbload my world, or stop it by not sending it making nothing save? Does anybody know?
Use paper or similar only AND ONLY if you're a casual player that doesn't make farm or redstone contraptions. Paper breaks vanilla mechanics even with the least amount of settings. Just use a normal fabric performance server modpack to achieve better performance and 100% vanilla mechanics coverage so your contraptions and farms will always 100% work as intended.
Love this. Last year I was running a modded fabric server with 20 people playing on it on POP OS. While I love pop os it eats 3-4GB out of 16 of the memory I need for my minecraft server. Plus I had do backups, edits, restarts and everything else manually. Not to mention I had to get up and go into another room then turn on the TV to re-configure the server every so often. With this I just run it and I can access everything from my main PC! BTW it looks like that issue crafty had with casa os has now been resolved but I still changed the file locations because I thought they made more sense.
After a server restart it seems that casaOS is still running but I can't access the web ui. CasaOS's wiki is useless contains just a few paragraphs of information and no mention or troubleshooting Edit: Did a complete reinstall of casaOS and now I can turn my server off and on without issues. Idk why it messed up before
I love your channel. It's the cheap computers showcased in a way that I just like
Neat, I've been planning to host my own server all this time with my hardware and finally found this
Oh my! I tweaked withg Casa OS and really loved it, but was just a random test to see how it worked, since i don't have a decent spaer computer for it. Now with your tutorial, it will be much easier to create a server to play with my friends ^ ^
Hand-down the BEST minecraft server guide out there! An absolute deus ex machina for my own server setup. THANK YOU!
I lucked out and found a 5825u mini pc for $200. Plenty fast to run minecraft. Thank you for this tutorial. I had no idea so many of these solutions existed! Makes deploying the thing a whole lot easier.
Really great presentation. You should create a 'sleepy' playlist. Your voice is so ASMR. I need MAWR!
Great video. I can't believe I watched this video when I don't need a minecraft Sever, but I ended up watching the whole thing. Great information and facts Givin Def was worth watching
Thank you for this! It was easy to understand and this way is good for beginners
Man im so happy with how your channel has grown great work
thank u for making me learn how to make a mc server this video really helped!
If you’re getting an issue saying “command not found” try using the command without Sudo.
Example “apt update” if that doesn’t work and it says could not open lock file, then type “su root” and the password you put in once prompted. You’ll then have full access and type “apt install sudo” and you can resume with the tutorial.
This is extremely informative, thanks for putting it together! Ive been wanting to explore Linux as sort of a side project and doing it through minecraft is excellent. We've been paying hosting for minecraft servers for years and I'd like to not anymore. I'm a totally newbie to all this so the concise and detailed explanation is extremely appreciated.
Excellent production quality. Fantastic topic and walk-through.
Next project ideas! How about something on setting up your own, local ChatGPT instance via ollama?
If you're planning on buying a system to host a Minecraft server, I'd recommend a older gen server. I was able to get my hands on a Dell PowerEdge R620 for just about $135 + free shipping on Ebay. The R620 I got had 32 GB of RAM and 24 cores (it has 2 CPUs so 12 cores per CPU), and it has 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports. It didn't come with any hard drives though, but for 135 I'm not complaining.
I was looking for something like this! Thanks... I was trying to do something with Cloudflare but this is much more convenient for Minecraft ^^
I have followed all steps and it works! I can now play with my friends without having to pay for a host! I did buy a mini pc but that's just a one time expense hah.
crafty is great, my friends asked me last summer to put up a minecraft server so i have a docker container on my vps with crafty installed.
All these GUI tools are interesting, and I do respect the work put into them by the developers. But on the other hand, isn't it a lot simpler to learn how to navigate your way around the filesystem using a terminal, making the entire process a lot shorter and, in a way, more convenient?
Especially for a project that is DIY and self-hosting oriented, it's important to learn a little bit about what you're doing to not expose your computer and network to danger.
This video is done to complete beginners who aren't even good at their main operating system. So throwing them into the pit of "do sudo -rm -rf ./" is not a good thing.
Also, learning unix just for starting game servers is kinda meh (I did that back in 2012).
I've been thinking about doing this for my son. This will help. Thank you!
14:04 You don't need to plug a keyboard and monitor back in so long as you just take a note of the MAC address of the network interface. You can then find it via rhe router.
Allocating a specific IP for it is better though
Nice. I have an older but still pretty powerful Dell edge tower server with duel 6 core xeons. I'm gonna get this set up with a couple of different servers. Thank you!
You don't actually need to change the boot order in the BIOS. Just hitting (in your case) F10 to get the boot menu, you select the USB and directly boot it.
Changing the order is only really necessary when you have multiple drives with different OSes installed that you switch occasionally.
You need to turn off a safe boot anyway, so why reboot, then click on f10 again, when you can do it in bios anyway.
Pulled out an old dell xps after seeing this video. Halfway to setting up a mincraft server for my son and his friends!
Thanks for the links btw
this is such a great informative guide which is really fun to do :) thank you
I just did this! And I'm only sort of a geek mom - not a super geek. We bought a used a computer/server from a local computer repair store and set it up ourselves. This will save us so much $ for the minecraft experience. Thanks so much for the video - it turned into a great Sunday family project! I did discover a new thing. There is an issue with the Crafty login password in July. Admin/crafty is no longer the UN and pw to log in the first time... instead - the crafty password is found on the Casa drive - in files, app data, crafty, config, default creds. copy and paste the password in that ... and once into Crafty then update the password.
You don’t need that much storage if you do regular world cleanings, whether it be full world resets or frequent trimming of chunks… but as someone who has played on a server that has existed for some years that hasn’t done any world resets since it first was created and only trims off chunks every long while, that server needs at least a 512GB drive and likely 1TB at some point. Not for a while but likely at some point. Lower options are good early on though, just saying it might be worth while to get a good higher storage option when on sale for stuff like Black Friday if you decide to be more of a “build a history of a world over time” kind of server host.
Thank you ive made my own server with this video it helped alot i did know nothing about setup a mcc server THANK YOUR
I did pterodactyl, and I'm somewhat proud and more satisfied than using a NAS-style OS. I like linuxing and it's very scalable. I used a script too, set up a DDNS and SSL over that domain
First of all, Big fan of your videos ❤
This was awesome tutorial how to get CasaOS going on my Elitedesk 800 G2 SFF, before I ran just typical Windows 10 on it to run my Minecraft server with Playit. This tutoral made my life lot easyer, because I ran seperately Pi-Hole on Rasberry pi, now it`s 2in1 on CasaOS. Works all really well, zero fails and easy to manage thru Chrome. Thanks a lot ✨
Nice video, will need to try it out some time, as I've always been launching minecraft servers on linux by just playing around with files and console. Also you can assign the static IP address to the server, it will skip the process of searching for your router setting of reserving the IP address, the only required thing would be to take out this IP from the DHCP range, which is not rly mandatory.