PaperMC – The High Performance Fork - Docker setup

This is an example setup for papermc minecraft server in docker.

Everything you may need is included in this repository.

This setup run on 1.15.2 but it's easy to change.

Topics

1. How to setup
2. How to maintain
3. How to backup

1. How to setup

As written this setup is for docker. So you need to install docker and docker-compose on your local system / server.

• Install docker-ce
• Install docker-compose

Create a folder /etc/docker-compose and clone everything from this repository inside.

mkdir --parents /etc/docker-compose
git clone https://github.com/fisey/papermc-docker.git /etc/docker-compose/minecraft

Create a new user with the uid 4321 without a password.

adduser --disabled-password --uid 4321 --gecos "" minecraft

Create a minecraft-data under /srv/.

mkdir --parents /srv/minecraft-data
chown minecraft:minecraft /srv/minecraft-data

Build docker container.

cd /etc/docker-compose/minecraft
docker-compose build

Run docker container.

cd /etc/docker-compose/minecraft
docker-compose up

2. How to maintain

For example there comes a point where you want to update the version. With docker this is easy. You just need to add two new lines into your docker-compose.yml.

Find the download here PaperMC Downloads.

Change version

---

version: '3.5'

services:
  minecraft-server:
    build: .
    ports:
    - 25565:25565
    container_name: minecraft-server
    restart: always
    environment:
    - APP_UID=4321
    - APP_GID=4321
    - APP_MEMORY=8192M
    - APP_BUILD=<build_number>
    - APP_VERSION=<build_version>
    volumes:
    - /srv/minecraft-data:/minecraft-data

...

Stop minecraft server

cd /etc/docker-compose/minecraft
docker-compose down

Start minecraft server

cd /etc/docker-compose/minecraft
docker-compose up

3. How to backup

tbd