Minecraft Server

[Atomicnerd64]

Hello I would like to know if anyone can give me a step by step detailed explanation of how to create a minecraft server that anyone in the world could access. I am technically inclined but have no knowledge when it comes to this.

[Wano97]

Download craftbukkit.jar and launch it with a bat file: 

Java -Xmx1024M -jar craftbukkit.jar  true
PAUSE

Port forward port 25565

Give your friends your external ip

Profit

[Enderman]

There's tons of videos on youtube that explain everything.

The most complicated part is port forwarding, because every modem is different, and there probably isnt a tutorial for your specific modem.

[Tycho]

use youtube, this is the first video i found that explains it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF7-xcLBMV4

[Enderman]

Download craftbukkit.jar

Port forward port 25565

Give your friends your external ip

Profit

Craftbukkit is no longer available because of copyright issues. He will need to use the standard vanilla server.jar from mojang.

[Wano97]

Craftbukkit is no longer available because of copyright issues. He will need to use the standard vanilla server.jar from mojang.

Oh okay, didn't know about that.

[Extingquish]

Essentially, what Wano said, but if you want a web address, go to noip.com

create a host

put in your desired web address

put in your IP

click create host

Profit

[ohJey]

You can checkout spigot, it's an alternative to bukkit

 

due to copyright issues they have made updating be done by a script (which is hard to figure out at first)

[rockking1379]

on ubuntu from terminal:

• mkdir minecraft
• cd minecraft
• wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/1.8/minecraft_server.1.8.jar
• java -Xmx2048M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.1.8.jar
• vi eula.txt
• hit 'I' to edit text
• delete the false, replace with true
• hit Escape
• type ':q' hit enter
• java -Xmx2048M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.1.8.jar
• server will now run BUT only as long as you are logged in

On Windows

• download minecraft server jar
• save file
• create minecraft directory
• put jar file in directory
• double click jar, should auto start with java
• server application will now run

Both of these assume you have java already installed on the system. for ubuntu you can use the openjdk and it should be fine. if you prefer the "official" oracle java then PM me and i can send you steps for that too.