Minecraft Docker Repo

1. Run this to download the Repo

git clone https://github.com/nap01/mc ~/git/mc

If you don't have git, follow this guide to install.

2. Add the directories that we will mount as volumes:

You can run sudo chmod +x data.sh & sudo ./data.sh

or

Run the following manually:

mkdir ./data
mkdir ./data/plugins
mkdir ./data/config
mkdir ./data/mods

3. Start/stop the container:

To test if the config works, run:

docker compose up

Typically, you start it detached with:

docker compose up -d

and stop it with:

docker compose down

4. Controlling the server

RCON is enabled by default, so you can exec into the container to access the Minecraft server console:

docker exec -i mc rcon-cli

Note: The -i is required for interactive use of rcon-cli.

To run a simple, one-shot command, such as stopping a Minecraft server, pass the command as arguments to rcon-cli, such as:

docker exec mc rcon-cli stop

The -i is not needed in this case.

If rcon is disabled you can send commands by passing them as arguments to the packaged mc-send-to-console script. For example, a player can be op'ed in the container mc with:

docker exec mc mc-send-to-console op player
            |                     |
            +- container name     +- Minecraft commands start here

In order to attach and interact with the Minecraft server, add -it when starting the container, such as

docker run -d -it -p 25565:25565 --name mc itzg/minecraft-server

With that you can attach and interact at any time using

docker attach mc

and then Control-p Control-q to detach.