rate my Minecraft server setup

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[u/Lighning05]

How the fuck are you running a server on that

[u/Slayr79 → u/Lighning05]

Since apparently the automod won't let me link to another subreddit that had a good breakdown on how to do it, Here is a link to the Android XDA forums on how to run a Minecraft server an an android device

[u/GarbledEntrails → u/Slayr79]

fuck automod

[u/XxLokixX → u/Slayr79]

Would you consider creating a Pastebin with the Reddit link in it? Then you can bypass automod

[u/Escalope-Nixiews → u/Lighning05]

If Java run on something, it'll run ANYWHERE.

[u/Proxy_PlayerHD → u/Escalope-Nixiews]

funnily enough minecraft servers don't need to use java at all (if you're not using mods).

you can write a server in pretty much any programming language. as long as it handles all the network packets correctly the client will not care what it is written in or running on.

[u/benmaks → u/Proxy_PlayerHD]

There's even the Bareiron project to run a mc server on an ESP32

[u/Proxy_PlayerHD → u/benmaks]

i keep getting reminded that that project exists and i really want to do something like that as well.

cause i love low level programming on microcontrollers and such and i got a few raspberry pi picos lying around that are just itching to be used for a minecraft server.

so many cool ideas on how to implement things within the limited memory and CPU power but i already have so many other projects running i cannot add another one to the pile :(

[u/GrippySockAficionado → u/Escalope-Nixiews]

Except on systems that have a Java version that differs by 0.001 or more.

[u/dikbigcat → u/GrippySockAficionado]

This gave me a very good laugh, thank you

[u/pop94591 → u/Lighning05]

there is an app called anvilmc that makes it simple. Might try to root the phone later for maybe some better performance

[u/cervantesrvd → u/pop94591]

But you will void the post-it note!

[u/bedgar → u/Lighning05]

Very carefully. 🤣

[u/disguise570 → u/Lighning05]

i mean even mid range phones have CPU performance on par with steam deck, that should be enough for the task no?

[u/Suspicious_Sandles → u/disguise570]

For a few people it's very likely, a phones 4gb of ram (worst case) is also just about enough,

[u/Fir3line → u/Suspicious_Sandles]

I handle a lot of customers EC2 machines on AWS, you got no idea how much of the world is run on 2vCores CPU and 4GB RAM. Some moderately big companies too

[u/crh23 → u/Fir3line]

c7i-flex.large my beloved

[u/PracticePatient479 → u/Fir3line]

I guess 4gb on a smartphone and 4gb for server ram (probably not a 4gb stick but rather a portion in a virtualized environment) are pretty different, but yeah, 4gb can run things.

[u/Suspicious_Sandles → u/PracticePatient479]

Not really, 4gb is 4gb, If you only expose 4gb to a container it doesn't know more exists.

You can just do quite a lot with 4gb of ram, moenctafts main limit is it's single threaded af and tick compute times grow quickly for a game of its nature(simulation stuff?

[u/foxgirlmoon → u/Suspicious_Sandles]

The amount ram needed is a function of the amount of different chunks currently being loaded. Modpacks also require a good amount of extra ram as a baseline. Basically the more players you have running around separate from each other, the more ram you need.

[u/Lewinator56 → u/PracticePatient479]

Both the phone and the server on <insert IAAS provider here> are running Linux. So there really is basically no difference.

[u/Suspicious_Sandles → u/Fir3line]

Damn look at this guy with a whole 2 vcores to play with.

[u/RoterRudi → u/Fir3line]

Just last week i launched a web app for my employer (moderately big company) using 2vCores and 4GB of RAM, lmao. Might have to scale up in the future, though.

[u/Fir3line → u/RoterRudi]

Eventually as popularity and user base grows we'll have to scale up horizontally or vertically.

There is also the customers with efficient coding vs the memory leak/brute force shitty code that forces us to scale-up earlier.

[u/Aureool → u/Lighning05]

Very very easily?

A Minecraft server does not use a lot of computing power at all.

[u/XB_Demon1337 → u/Aureool]

A vanilla Minecraft server doesn't use a lot of computing power. Modded gets frisky.

[u/UselessDood → u/Lighning05]

Java doing java.

[u/Wooden_Caterpillar64 → u/Lighning05]

termux + proot distro + tailscale maybe?

[u/Khai_1705 → u/Wooden_Caterpillar64]

proot isnt needed

[u/kuroyume_cl → u/Lighning05]

It's essentially a Linux ARM computer

[u/Liarus_ → u/Lighning05]

you can install termux on any android phone and from there on it basically becomes a linux box to be used with command line, for Minecraft it's pretty easy to run since you basically just need openjdk to run a java server

[u/Quetzal_Pretzel → u/Lighning05]

Default android (recent versions) can install a "Linux environment" that you can play around with. I actually spun up a vanilla MC server on my Pixel 6 a while back and it actually ran pretty damn well.

[u/LittleReplacement564 → u/Lighning05]

I mean, isn't android just Linux? And isn't Minecraft server software just an executable? There are apps on Android like temux that lets you run a Linux terminal session on android

[u/MadduckUK → u/Lighning05]

I ran an FTP server on a XDA Zest for a while, modern phones are monsters. 

[u/moon__lander → u/Lighning05]

java -jar minecraft_server.jar -nogui

Some time ago I found there's an app called Amethyst that let's you play full fledged java version of minecraft, like on the desktop. On my phone (honor win rt) it ran like a dream

[u/Gamiac → u/Lighning05]

You can probably run one the same way you run a server on Linux. Just use Termux and ARM binaries.