Spin Up Minecraft Server From Scratch Using Docker In Under 5 Minutes!

Thanks itzg for creating this amazing docker image, it’s super easy to use and allow you to spin up a minecraft server under 5 minutes.

Creating docker environment

First you need to have a Linux machine that’s able to run docker.

Follow the docker offical guide to install docker

Also install docker-compose to manage container eaiser, guide can be found here

Set up minecraft docker image

Use your favorite text editor to create a docker-compose.yml file, populate it with the following content:

docker-compose.yml

version: "3"

services:
  mc:
    image: itzg/minecraft-server
    ports:
      - 25565:25565
    environment:
      EULA: "TRUE"
    tty: true
    stdin_open: true
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      # attach a directory relative to the directory containing this compose file
      - ./minecraft-data:/data

Run docker-compose up -d and that’s it your Minecraft server is up and running!

More RAM!

If you need more RAM, add environment variable MEMORY like this

version: "3"

services:
  mc:
    container_name: minecraft-server
    image: itzg/minecraft-server
    ports:
      - 25565:25565
    environment:
      EULA: "TRUE"
      MEMORY: "4G"
    tty: true
    stdin_open: true
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      # attach a directory relative to the directory containing this compose file
      - ./minecraft-data:/data

Fabric server with lithium and phosphor mods.

Change the docker-compose.yml file as following:

version: "3"

services:
 mc:
   container_name: minecraft-server
   image: itzg/minecraft-server
   ports:
     - 25565:25565
   environment:
     EULA: "TRUE"
     MEMORY: "4G"
     TYPE: FABRIC
   tty: true
   stdin_open: true
   restart: unless-stopped
   volumes:
     # attach a directory relative to the directory containing this compose file
     - ./minecraft-data:/data

Go to the Minecraft folder, it should be called minecraft-data as set above. Inside there is a mods folder where you put your server mod. Go there, for me it should be minecraft-data/mods and download lithium and phosphor:
Lithium can be found in it’s Github release page. Phosphor can be found in it’s Github release page.

wget https://github.com/CaffeineMC/lithium-fabric/releases/download/mc1.18.1-0.7.7/lithium-fabric-mc1.18.1-0.7.7.jar
wget https://github.com/CaffeineMC/phosphor-fabric/releases/download/mc1.18.x-0.8.1/phosphor-fabric-mc1.18.x-0.8.1-dev.jar

Then you are done, go back to the fold where you have your docker-compose file

sudo docker-compose up -d

The fabric server with lithium and phosphor mods should be up and running!