Purpose:

The purpose of this guide is to help you setup Ubuntu Server, Install a Vanilla Fabric Minecraft Server, Setup some basic Mods, and play on your server from Playit.GG without port forwarding. We want to make Vanilla more fun without an overwhelming amount of Mods.

Assumptions:

• Dedicated computer with a hypervisor (we will be using Proxmox)
• Network configured appropriately
• Ubuntu Server LTS downloaded and installed on your hypervisor

Guide:

Downloading Ubuntu Server

You will need to visit the following link:

https://ubuntu.com/download/server

Download the LTS version of Ubuntu Server

Setting up Ubuntu Server

Press on “Try or Install Ubuntu Server”

Select your language

Select your keyboard layout

Select “Ubuntu Server”

You can ignore Ubuntu Server minimized and the additional options

Take note of your IP address

In this example, mine is set up using DHCP

You don’t have to put anything in the Proxy Address

At the bottom of the archive mirror page, press continue.

Leave these settings alone and select on done at the bottom

Leave these settings alone and hit continue

Setup your username, name of the server, and your password for the user.

In our example, the name and username will be the same

Select Skip for now

Make sure to install the OpenSSH server so we can connect to it from our local machine

Don’t select anything here

Once the installation is complete, press reboot now at the bottom.

Create a directory for Minecraft

What I did was create a directory for Minecraft to install to instead of the root folder.

sudo mkdir /Minecraft

Now when we go to install to the new directory we will use the following command first to change directories

cd /Minecraft/

Permissions

Here we are changing owners of the file to the username we created above. This makes it easier to deal with permission errors down the road. Please take into consideration security like a strong password and allow listing players when the server is setup.

sudo chown username:username /Minecraft

Downloading the Minecraft Server from Fabric

Go to https://fabricmc.net/use/server/

We are going to download the server via CLI in Linux:

curl -OJ https://meta.fabricmc.net/v2/versions/loader/1.21.8/0.17.2/1.1.0/server/jar

Next we will need to Launch the executable:

Please take note that Xmx2G is the amount of RAM that the server will use. You will need to change this depending on how much RAM your Virtual Machine has. In our case, we will use 8GBs of RAM.

Ours will say -Xmx8G

java -Xmx8G -jar fabric-server-mc.1.21.8-loader.0.17.2-launcher.1.1.0.jar nogui

Your server is now setup and ready to be used.

Mods

If you want to install mods, I recommend doing so before you launch the first time.

If you want to add mods, I recommend going to modrinth.com and sorting through their mods. In our case, we will be using Minecraft version 1.21.8, Fabric, and we will sort by server.

When it comes to Fabric, I recommend downloading Fabric API, Coth Config API, and Fabric Language Kotlin to start. Fabric mods depend on these core mods to be installed first.

Download the Mods that you want to your computer. I recommend using a mod like Terralith to make your vanilla experience much better:

https://modrinth.com/datapack/terralith

Uploading your Mods via SFTP

Since our version of Ubuntu is the server version, we will need to SSH our server and upload the mods to the mods folder.

If you’re on windows, I recommend using Filezilla to SFTP to your server. This also works on MacOS.

Open up Filezilla, in the top left fill out the relevant information.

• Host: Server IP address
• Username: Username we set up in the beginning
• Password: Password we set up in the beginning
• Port: 22

Press on Quickconnect

On the right side of Filezilla, you will see Remote site. From here, you’re going to type in /Minecraft/mods.

On the left side of Filezilla, you will see Local site which is your computer. You can navigate to where you downloaded the mods and drag/drop them into the /Minecraft/mods folder on your server.

After you upload your mods, you can view them on the Ubuntu server.

On our server, I downloaded a ton of mods to try out. If you’re on the server, you can type in:

ls /Minecraft/mods

Gaining Access to our Server from Everywhere

Now that we have our our Minecraft server setup. We need to be able to gain access to it when we aren’t at home. Enter playit.gg.

Navigate to Playit.GG and sign up for an account.

You can follow the steps here as reference for making playit.gg work on your Minecraft server:

https://playit.gg/support/run-on-linux

For our example, we will do the following:

cd /
Minecraft/
sudo curl -SsL https://playit-cloud.github.io/ppa/key.gpg | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/playit.gpg >/dev/null
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/playit.gpg] https://playit-cloud.github.io/ppa/data ./" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playit-cloud.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install playit

Then run:

chmod +x playit-linux-amd64
./playit-linux-amd64

This will populate a link in the CLI that you need to go to to claim the tunnel.

In the Playit.GG dashboard, you will be given a link to connect to from the multiplayer tab in Minecraft.

Conclusion:

Now you should have a Vanilla Minecraft server with some mods to play with your friends.