Steps & Commands To Host 24/7 Minecraft Server for Free With 16GB RAM

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Create a new folder and name it “mc_server” on left hand side.

Download server jar file of your choice from internet and rename it to server.jar

Upload server.jar file in “mc_server” folder.

Now click on “view” and then “terminal” to show terminal.

In terminal enter these commands

sudo -s
apt update && apt upgrade -y

Download the appropriate version of Localtonet for their Linux distribution using a tool like wget.

wget https://localtonet.com/download/localtonet-linux-x64.zip

Extract the downloaded file from the zip archive

unzip localtonet-linux-x64.zip

Grant read and write permissions to the Localtonet executable

chmod 777 ./localtonet

Now go in “mc_server” dir and try to start your minecraft server

cd mc_server
apt install openjdk-21-jre
java -Xmx14G -Xms2G -jar server.jar nogui

It will ask you to accept “eula”, accept it by editing eula.txt file and changing “eula=false” to “eula=true”

apt install nano
nano eula.txt

Note : similarly you can edit “server.properties” file using command “nano server.properties”

Now you can use the command below to start your minecraft server

java -Xmx14G -Xms2G -jar server.jar nogui

Next we need a Server IP to connect to our minecraft server.

To get that Visit Localtonet.com and Signup for Free. On Dashboard you will find your authtoken.

Now open a new terminal on lightning.ai and enter the authentication token using the following command, replacing PASTE_HERE_COPIED_AUTHTOKEN with the actual token:

sudo -s

./localtonet authtoken PASTE_HERE_COPIED_AUTHTOKEN

After completing these steps, create a “TCP-UDP” tunnel from Localtonet.com dashboard by selecting prefered server location.

Now You will get the IP and Port which you can use to join your minecraft server.

You can access your minecraft server files and console on lightning.ai.

Note : From next time whenever you want to start the server , just open lightning.ai website – open this studio – view terminal – enter “sudo -s” then enter “cd mc_server” then start the Minecraft server with this command “java -Xmx14G -Xms2G -jar server.jar nogui”

This minecraft server will be online 24/7.

Enjoy !

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