minecraftServer.md

Minecraft Server

Useful website

https://teilgedanken.de/Blog/post/setting-up-a-minecraft-server-using-systemd/

Save the minecraft datafolder into /var/minecraft/server

Create Specific user to run the minecraft server

groupadd -r minecraft
useradd -r -g minecraft -d "/var/minecraft" -s "/bin/bash" minecraft
chown minecraft.minecraft -R /var/minecraft/

Will need to install java

JAVA 8 ONLY!

java -v
sudo apt-get install default-jdk

Will need to run forge installer from the minecraft directory

http://files.minecraftforge.net/maven/net/minecraftforge/forge/

java -jar minecraftforge-installer.jar --installServer

Systemd service file

/lib/systemd/system/minecraft.service

[Unit]
Description=Minecraft Server
After=network.target

[Service]
User=minecraft
Group=minecraft
ProtectHome=true
ProtectSystem=full
PrivateDevices=true
NoNewPrivileges=true
PrivateTmp=true
InaccessibleDirectories=/root /sys /srv -/opt /media -/lost+found
WorkingDirectory=/var/minecraft/server

ExecStart=/usr/bin/java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar server.jar nogui

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target