Minecraft Server Cheat Sheet

Manual minecraft bedrock server start, stop, status, detailed status

systemctl start minecraftBedrock.service
systemctl stop minecraftBedrock.service
systemctl restart minecraftBedrock.service
systemctl status minecraftBedrock.service
journalctl -u minecraftBedrock.service -l -n 50

Edit config

nano /home/spideyclick/minecraft/bedrock/server.properties

Creating a new world

Edit the world-name in the config and restart server

Sample SystemD Unit Files

# Install into a file like this: /etc/systemd/system/minecraftBedrock.service
# Manual run: systemctl start minecraftBedrock

[Unit]
Description=MineCraft Bedrock Server
After=network.target
OnFailure=status-email-user@%n.service

[Service]
Type=simple
User=spideyclick
WorkingDirectory=/home/spideyclick/minecraft/bedrock-kenny/
ExecStart=/bin/bash /home/spideyclick/minecraft/bedrock-kenny/start.sh
Restart=always
RestartSec=10

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

To Do

Create a script and service to back up world off-server at set intervals, purging old backups as needed.