A sophisticated Minecraft lover may at one fine moment face the fact that he no longer likes a lot on the playgrounds he visits. For example, he begins to bother the rules established there, or it just seems that it is too crowded there. Meanwhile, any gamer has an option that allows him to create his own server, where he can register exactly those settings that he likes.
Reasons for organizing your own playground
Any player who decides to undertake such an undertaking, of course, has the right to determine for himself why he needed this. Perhaps he really strives to create the ideal - in his opinion - playground for playing Minecraft. Sometimes some people want to create a server due to the fact that they are eager to find a kind of "safe haven" in the world of their favorite game, where they can practice their "mining" skills only with trusted friends.
There are also those gamers who want to turn their server into something grandiose, on which it would even be possible to earn extra money (for example, on advertising fees or in other ways). In this case, the playground will require promotion, attracting a considerable number of fans of the game to its ranks and other actions aimed at increasing its popularity and making it a leader, at least on the scale of Runet.
However, no matter what the person who creates his server is guided by, the principles of the device will in any case be approximately similar (the differences will be due only to individual technical characteristics that depend on the software that formed the basis of such a playground).
General principles of server design
First of all, it is necessary to install on the future server computer a Java platform adequate to the system's bit depth. True, if it was from that device that the Minecraft client was already successfully launched, then most likely the necessary software is installed there.
Next, download the installation files for the server. It is advisable to contact the official site of the game for this. There, in the Multiplayer Server section, there are two options for such installers - minecraft.exe (for Windows) and minecraft.jar (universal, suitable for any known operating systems). For such a file, it is worth creating a special folder on the computer desktop, where everything is copied.
If the potential owner of the server has turned to other resources for the necessary files - for example, Bukkit - he will still have to open the saved file and copy the line from there corresponding to the bitness of his computer system. Then you need to create a text document in the server folder, paste the previously copied information there and replace everything between the letter C and the dot in it with the name of the downloaded installation file.
In the window that opens after that, click "Yes" and designate the resulting file as Start.bat. After such actions, the original text file can be deleted, but the resulting text file can be run. In the case when the server installer was downloaded from the official Minecraft portal, it is necessary to launch it, without any preliminary preparation.
Playground settings
The window that opens is the server console. You will need to wait while it generates the game world (including the main, Lower (Hell) and End). You cannot interrupt this process or simply exit the console - otherwise the server will be doomed to failures, up to the complete "fall" of the card. The correct stop of such a file is made in the only way - by entering the stop command.
If you close the server folder and then reopen it, you will find that there are a lot of different documents (mostly text) that exist to ensure the operation of the playground. Ops is intended for entering the names of administrators (the creator of the server should first enter his own nickname), banned-ips - for banned IP-addresses, and banned-players - for users.
It is worth looking into the server.properties file (properties of the future playground) and making the necessary changes there. They are performed by typing true (true) or false (false) after each indicator. Here you can define the game mode for the server, the difficulty level, the presence of white lists, PvP and other important parameters.
After these installations, all that remains is to launch Minecraft, click Add Server there and enter the name of the future playground and its IP there. The latter can be found through the start menu of the computer. To do this, enter cmd in the "Run" line, and in the opened console - ip config and press Enter. A new window will appear in which you need to see the IP from which the Internet is running on the gaming computer. This is what they write in the corresponding line in Minecraft.
It remains only to find out the external IP of your server and inform your friends and other gamers who you want to see on your playground.
