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Minecraft — Run a headless Minecraft server. More information: <https://minecraft.wiki/w/Tutorial:Setting_up_a_J

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Problem

How to use the Minecraft command: Run a headless Minecraft server. More information: <https://minecraft.wiki/w/Tutorial:Setting_up_a_Java_Edition_server>.

Solution

Minecraft — Run a headless Minecraft server. More information: <https://minecraft.wiki/w/Tutorial:Setting_up_a_Java_Edition_server>.

Start a Minecraft server and generate a world if it doesn't exist:

java -jar {{path/to/server.jar}} --nogui

Set the minimum and maximum amount of memory a server is allowed to have (Note: Setting them the same prevents lag caused by heap scaling):

java -Xms{{1024M}} -Xmx{{2048M}} -jar {{path/to/server.jar}} --nogui

Start a server with a GUI:

java -jar {{path/to/server.jar}}

[Interactive] Shut the server down:

stop

Code Snippets

Start a Minecraft server and generate a world if it doesn't exist

java -jar {{path/to/server.jar}} --nogui

Set the minimum and maximum amount of memory a server is allowed to have (Note: Setting them the same prevents lag caused by heap scaling)

java -Xms{{1024M}} -Xmx{{2048M}} -jar {{path/to/server.jar}} --nogui

Start a server with a GUI

java -jar {{path/to/server.jar}}

[Interactive] Shut the server down

stop

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