How to Make a Minecraft Server on Raspberry Pi

If you want to create a private Minecraft world that you can share with your friends online, you need a place to host that experience. You can pay a hefty $7.99 per month for Minecraft Realms, which is easy to use but doesn’t have all the customization options or you can rent a Minecraft server from a paid hosting service such as Shockbyte. Or you can set up your very own Minecraft server on a Raspberry Pi and have it hosted right from your living room for free. 

Note that you’ll need either a Raspberry Pi 3 or 4, preferably a 4 with at least 2GB of RAM. And all the traffic on the server will be going in and out via your home internet service so, if you’re planning to have a ton of users on all the time, it may take up some bandwidth. But if you’re just planning to play with a few friends, creating a Raspberry Pi Minecraft server is easy, cheap and fun. 

Below, we’ll show you how to set up a Minecraft server on your Raspberry Pi, make sure that server starts at boot and that it allows connections from outside your local network. We’ll also explain how to log into that server from Minecraft Java Edition. Note that we’re using a plain, vanilla Minecraft server and Java Edition, without mods. However, once you’ve got the hang of these instructions, you can install server-side mods or different versions of the server.

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