Setup Java Edition Server

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This section assumes that you already have JRE installed. If not, see Dependencies.

Deployment from Market

1. Go to the Instances page and click the Create button.
2. Select Minecraft, select your desired software and version and click Install.

You will be automatically redirected to the instance page after installation.

Start your Minecraft Server

Manual Deployment

Download Server Core

The server core is the essential part of a Minecraft server. In general, all other required files will be generated by the core once started.

We will use Paper core as an example. Here are some popular versions:

• 1.18.2
• 1.19.4
• 1.20.4

More versions：https://papermc.io/downloads

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Deployment

Start by clicking the Create button on the top right of the Instances page, and select Create Directly. Pick the node you want the server to run on and fill out the required information.

• When creating the instance, enter the following in the Startup Command field:

java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -jar "paper-<version>.jar"

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You can provide many more arguments in the startup command. Feel free to explore more possibilities!

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You can increase the heap size (Memory or RAM) by adding these two arguments to your startup command:

-Xms - specifies the initial heap size for the JVM
-Xmx - specifies the maximum heap size for the JVM

Examples:

1. -Xms256M -Xmx2G
2. -Xms2G -Xmx4G

The final command should look something like this:

java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Xms2G -Xmx4G -jar "paper-<version>.jar"

You can adjust the values to your liking and find out what works best for your system!

WARNING

Please check how much RAM your system has before adding those arguments and don't allocate your full system's RAM to the JVM as the operating system your machine is running on also needs some resources to function. Ignoring this warning may result in a full system crash when running your server.

After filling in the startup command, click Create to create the instance.

Go to File Management and upload the server core file you downloaded earlier.

Starting Minecraft Server

After creating the instance, navigate to the instance console and start it by clicking the Start button located in the top-right corner.

EULA

WARNING

If you do not agree to the Mojang's End-User License Agreement (EULA), you will not be able to start your server.

To start the server for the first time, you must accept the End-User License Agreement (EULA). To accept EULA, go to Configuration Files, and you will see eula.txt, click edit and select yes.

If you can't find this file, try starting your server.

Changing the terminal's time zone

If the terminal's time zone is not the same as yours, you can add this command line argument to your Startup command:

-Duser.timezone=<TZ-Identifier>

Example:

java -Duser.timezone=Europe/Paris -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Xms2G -Xmx4G -jar "paper-<version>.jar"

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You can find a list of all time zones and their identifiers here.