Server for modded Minecraft

[Zuki6s]

Hello, I want to build a server for modded Minecraft.

• Up to 6 players, 3 on average
• Running 24/7
• ~120 mods
• Noise, form factor and power consumption don't really matter
• Just the server - no monitor, keyboard, etc. needed.
• Don't really know what it's going to cost but the maximum I can spend is 600€.

Thanks!

[GDRRiley]

for that few people a used i5 or i7 with 16 or 32gb of ram should do well.

250gb ssd.

[manikyath]

just about whatever cpu you have laying around that's at least newer than core2, and 8-16GB ram, depending on how much of a hog your players are.

 

i usually run modded servers with approx. 100-250 loaded mods (what the game menu in the client reports) with 6-10GB allocated depending on exactly how crazy i go with chunkloading. cpu of my server is an i7-4770, and seems to be good for at least 20-ish players worth of loaded chunks (at render distance 10) with just about any modpack i've thrown at it.

 

something to note is that minecraft server is just about 95% single threaded still, especially modded servers since they have so much going on in the game tick thread, so there's little to no difference between i3 and i7 within a single cpu generation. (given clock speed similarity, ofcourse)

 

also, a little optimization you can do to save some cpu load: in server.properties, reduce render distance from 10 to 8, chances are good that if you dont tell your players they wont even notice the difference, but its about a 40% reduction in chunks loaded around your players. => big decrease in server cpu load.

[Zuki6s]

7 hours ago, manikyath said:

just about whatever cpu you have laying around that's at least newer than core2, and 8-16GB ram, depending on how much of a hog your players are.

 

i usually run modded servers with approx. 100-250 loaded mods (what the game menu in the client reports) with 6-10GB allocated depending on exactly how crazy i go with chunkloading. cpu of my server is an i7-4770, and seems to be good for at least 20-ish players worth of loaded chunks (at render distance 10) with just about any modpack i've thrown at it.

 

something to note is that minecraft server is just about 95% single threaded still, especially modded servers since they have so much going on in the game tick thread, so there's little to no difference between i3 and i7 within a single cpu generation. (given clock speed similarity, ofcourse)

 

also, a little optimization you can do to save some cpu load: in server.properties, reduce render distance from 10 to 8, chances are good that if you dont tell your players they wont even notice the difference, but its about a 40% reduction in chunks loaded around your players. => big decrease in server cpu load.

Does ram speed matter? And what board for lets say i5 9600K or i3 8350K as an example?

[manikyath]

2 hours ago, Zuki6s said:

Does ram speed matter? And what board for lets say i5 9600K or i3 8350K as an example?

couldnt tell you if it matters, all the ram i have on hand is DDR3-1600.

 

as for motherboard.. whatever is reliable and fits the budget.