Raspberry PI 3 – minecraft server

1. Install Raspberrian on the SD card

# !! Instructions below are for  OS X !!
# List all connected disks diskutil list

# Note down disk device (in this case it is /dev/disk1)
# Make sure to use correct name !!
# dd is super brutal and it will overwrite everything
# without single question
/dev/disk1
   #:            TYPE NAME           SIZE   IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme  *15.5 GB    disk1
   1:        Windows_FAT_32 boot   62.9 MB    disk1s1
   2:                      Linux    4.0 GB    disk1s2

# Unmount the disk
# do not eject disk. If you do that, you will have to reconnect
# card

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1

# Use dd to write raspberrian to SD
# USE /dev/rdisk# instead of disk#
# writing to /dev/disk# is dead slow

sudo dd bs=1m if=~/raspbian-jessie.img of=/dev/rdisk1 conv=sync

# in case it fail, you may need to use different device

sudo dd bs=1m if=~/raspbian-jessie.img of=/dev/disk1 conv=sync

If you want to proceed with headless installation make sure to create empty file at /Volumes/boot. Otherwise you will not be able to connect via ssh. If you want to connect to your raspberry via ssh, simply call

ssh pi@raspberry-pi.address.goes.here
password: raspberry

2. Make sure to Expand file system (take a look at my other post here)

3. Raspberrian Jessie already have Java preinstalled – so you don’t have to do anything here

4. Create directory for the server and download it there

mkdir mcserver
cd mcserver
curl "https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/1.9/minecraft_server.1.9.jar" -o minecraft_server.1.9.jar

5. Create server.properties file – you can use template below

spawn-protection=16
max-tick-time=60000
generator-settings=
force-gamemode=false
allow-nether=true
gamemode=0
enable-query=false
player-idle-timeout=0
difficulty=1
spawn-monsters=true
op-permission-level=4
announce-player-achievements=true
pvp=true
snooper-enabled=true
level-type=DEFAULT
hardcore=false
enable-command-block=false
max-players=4
network-compression-threshold=256
resource-pack-sha1=
max-world-size=10000
server-port=25565
server-ip=
spawn-npcs=true
allow-flight=false
level-name=world
view-distance=10
resource-pack=
spawn-animals=true
white-list=false
generate-structures=true
online-mode=true
max-build-height=256
level-seed=
motd=A Minecraft Server
enable-rcon=false

6. Make sure to create eula.txt file with following content

#By changing the setting below 
#to TRUE you are indicating your agreement to our 
#EULA (https://account.mojang.com/documents/minecraft_eula).
eula=true

7. Start server and enjoy :)

# You can play with memory settings, but remember
# that you have 1GB for everything, so don't reserve too much
# for the JVM

java -Xms512M -Xmx512M -jar ./minecraft_server.1.9.jar -nogui