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Minecraft Cloud Shell & Colab (or anywhere cloud services) Tutorial & Info

THIS VERSION IS ARCHIVED FOR NOW. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. BUILDS ARE CURRENTLY BEING REDEVELOPED ON THE RS BRANCH

In this project, we'll teach you host your very own Java/Bedrock Minecraft Server using Google Cloud Shell. This works under Ubuntu/Debian based Linux operation system. This project requires NO CREDIT CARD and the whole project is entirely FREE! You can make a server without costing you anything.

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The following features are added into this project are:

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Server Specs:

You can view your exact specs by doing ./specinfo

Service Used:

Installation

git clone https://github.com/stan0ne/MinecraftServer

cd mcserver

chmod +x *

./install

Follow the installation step shown in the console

./startserver

(You only need to do this if you chose No.)

Java Server Additional Setup (You can skip this part)

(This only applies to Java Servers including Nukkit or the EULA script didn't work for you.)

If you first start up your server, it will fail to start because you need to accept the EULA to run properly.

cd server

nano eula.txt

eula=true

Do Ctrl + W then press Y to save and press Enter exit the text editor.

cd ..

Playit Installation (to create a tunnel and get links)

curl -SsL https://playit-cloud.github.io/ppa/key.gpg | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/playit.gpg >/dev/null
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/playit.gpg] https://playit-cloud.github.io/ppa/data ./" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playit-cloud.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install playit

./startPlayit

Joining your Server

screen -r playit

(Note: If you want to change the Claim URL, you need to Stop the Server. This will reset your server IP.)

Accessing Server Console

screen -r server

To completly stop the server, you can do ./stopserver on the Linux console or do exit or stop on the Minecraft console

Detaching Screen/Session

Third-Party Launcher

Example: Tlauncher

nano server.properties

online-mode=false

Do Ctrl + W then press Y to save and press Enter exit the text editor.

Access Server Files

If you want to access your server files, go to Open Editor on the top right.

Changing/Customize Variables

If you want to change the variables inside the script or just tweak something for your server to work, you can change and edit the varibles/

The following Java servers are supported for custom variables:

The following Bedrock servers are supported for custom variables:

These servers aren't supported for custom variables:

Older Version

If you are using older version of Minecraft check out this documentation and install it according to your need:

You can go inside the server scripts and edit ONLY on this section of the code:

# -- EDIT HERE | DO NOT EDIT ABOVE -- #
EXAMPLE_VARIBALES=VARIABLES # NOTE ABOUT VARIABLES
# -- EDIT HERE | DO NOT EDIT BELOW -- #

(Note: Do not edit the code below and above as it will break the installation and you have to delete the project again.)

Restarting your Server

If you don't know what restarting your server mean, here's the step.

./stopserver

./startserver

Now your server has fully restarted.

Keeping the Server Alive 24/7

There's only ONE way to keep your server online longer than 20 minutes:

(Don't worry, your device that is being used to host your server isn't affected from the intensity of your server.)

If you have any method the would possibly keep the server alive 24/7, feel free to Fork this project and request a Pull to this project. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Limitation of this project

Google Cloud Shell Quota

While I was editing this project, I notice that Google has added a quota for each Cloud Shell uses and you can only host your server for the max of 50 hours per Week. Once you used all of the hours, you can't use it again until next week.

No Dedicated IP

Sadly you can't use the host IP into your dedicated IP as it won't let you join that server, you can only join your server by the generated dedicated IP provided by playit.gg. If you know how to reverse proxy the tunnel system, you can actually use the host IP to make a dedicated IP for your server but I highly doubt that would ever happen.

Mixed Server Specs

Each Cloud Shell session will have different specs of your server based on your physical location so you won't always get the best performance of your server but good news being that it's always the range between 8GB to 16GB so you won't have to worry about lag when playing in the server with high processing in your server.

Uninstall/Remove the Server

./uninstall

It will tell you if you really want to uninstall it or not.

Deleting/Updating the whole Project

This project will constantly update day after day until I make a perfect project. If you have install this project before and it has some lack of features, you can update the project by doing this steps.

cd

sudo rm -r mcserver

If the project is completely deleted, you can Clone the Project again and it should be up to date with the new features and code from this project!

Conclusion

Now you can host your very own Minecraft Server for both Java & Bedrock fast and easy and it won't cost you a single penny to make a fast and strong server. Best of all, IT'S FOREVER! Feel free to leave any requests you would like me to add into the project. If you have any issues, go to the Issues tab and submit a issue there.

Credits

Project Creator: LordOfWizard

Tutorial Creator: DumbCaveSpider

Project Maintainer: Silent-Crafter