Question 1

Minecraft Server Management - The Basics

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This article aims to teach the basics of running a Minecraft server on WitherHosting! Please note this article is longer than our rest, and is being added to all the time, so bits may be missing. Let's get started!

🏎️ Turning on your server 🏎️

To turn on your server, navigate to witherpanel, select your server and click the "Start" button as seen below:

On first run, the panel will show a message asking you if you agree to the Minecraft EULA, which is the requirements that you need to follow to run your Minecraft server, the panel provides a link, but the EULA can be found here. https://account.mojang.com/documents/minecraft_eula If you agree, click the blue agree button.

|| Your server should start up, if it gives an error, you can try using the reinstall button in the settings section on the left side panel. If this doesn't work, you can open a support ticket and we will gladly help!

🚪 How to join your server 🚪

You can find the IP address and port at the Information box next to the server console.

Connecting with the IP and port (java edition):

Copy the IP and Port to your clipboard (you can cli

Question 2

How to setup Rcon for your Minecraft Server

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In this guide, we will explain how to setup RCON for your minecraft server. It is best used when you are managing a server's console wihout needing to access the panel. Let's get started!

⬇️ Downloading the RCON client ⬇️

| The rcon client we are using is https://github.com/Tiiffi/mcrcon . You can follow the installation instructions for linux, and other OS in their github page. We will be using windows for this tutorial!

First, download the RCON software needed from https://sourceforge.net/projects/mcrcon/files/latest/download Once downloaded, extract the file into a folder where we will run rcon.

🔘 Enabling RCON on your minecraft server 🔘

First, make sure you have a new port ready to use for RCON. Go to networking --> ports --> create port. Note that port down.

Then, go to server.properties in your file manager, and do the following:

Set enable-rcon=true.
Set a password for your rcon connection at rcon.password=your_password.
Set the port for rcon at rcon.port=12345, replacing 12345 with the new port you made for rcon.
If you want OP players to see rcon connections, set broadcast-rcon-to-ops=true.

Double check these values!

Once done, save the file, and restart the server.

🔗 Connecting to your server via RCON 🔗

Now, go back to your folder where you have RCON stored. There will be a file called launch.bat . Double click it and you'll b

Question 3

How to add resource packs to your server

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In this article, we will learn how to add resource packs to your minecraft server! We will go over each specific game type, paper, pmmp/nukkit, vanilla bedrock, and as well as adding packs to your geysermc server. If you want to go to a specific section in this article, click the links below

Jump to sections covered in this article -

Paper
PMMP/Nukkit
Vanilla Bedrock
Geyser

🗞️ Paper 🗞️

Installing a resource pack in papermc is rather simple! To begin with, first go to the resource pack you want to download. In this case, we will be downloading the Faithful texture pack. You need to ensure you have the direct download link, in this case, it is https://github.com/FaithfulTeam/Faithful/raw/releases/1.17.zip Now, go to WitherPanel, and go to your server.properties file and find the resource-pack setting. Put in the link, and then click save.

Next, we will get a hash for this resource pack. The hash is used to verify that this pack is actually valid, and to verify that it exists. You can go to a tool such as http://onlinemd5.com/, upload your resource pack, and get your hash.

We will copy this hash, and then put it into resource-pack-sha1 setting at server.properties.

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Question 4

Which Bedrock Software is for you?

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This article is intended to teach you about the different softwares available for bedrock edition that you can run servers with!

PocketMine-MP‌ (PMMP)

Unlike the other two software PocketMine-MP is written using PHP. It was the first form of server software for the Minecraft Bedrock community and is currently one of the most used.

✅ The Advantages of PocketMine ✅

Since it is the most popular as well as the oldest, it has a lot of public plugins which you can use.
Compared to the other two softwares, PocketMine is not RAM heavy. This means PocketMine uses more CPU rather than RAM.
For newer developers, there is a great community that can help you out with your plugins.
Extensive API allowing you to change every aspect of how your server behaves.

❌ The Disadvantages of PocketMine ❌

PHP isn't usually used for software such as Minecraft servers, so this can have an effect on the amount of plugin developers that develop for Pocketmine. It could be harder to find or create plugins for this software opposed to other softwares.
Lacks most vanilla features, although there are plugins that offer some vanilla functionality, most are buggy or no longer work.‌

Cloudburst Nukkit (NukkitX)

Nukkit is written using Java. It was the second unique form of server software for the Minecraft Bedrock community. It isn't the most used but is rapidly growing.

✅ The Advantages of Nukkit ✅

Just like PocketMine, it also is relatively popular and has a lot

Question 5

How to find and install plugins for your minecraft server

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There are different software for Minecraft servers, and each software has different plugins, and places to find them.

The software we will cover in this article for Bedrock -

PocketMine-MP
Nukkit

The software we will cover in this article for Java -

Bukkit
Spigot and Paper
Bungeecord
Velocity

PocketMine-MP

To get PocketMine-MP plugins, you can visit the website - https://poggit.pmmp.io/plugins You can search for plugins by Author, search in categories, and in API versions. When you find a plugin you like, you can download the file for it.

| PocketMine-MP plugins have a .phar extension to the file you download.

Nukkit

To get Nukkit plugins, you can visit the website - https://cloudburstmc.org/resources/ You can search for plugins under the Nukkit category, and also find plugins based on Most popular, recently reviewed, and authors. When you find a plugin you like, you can download the file for it.

| Nukkit plugins have a .jar extension to the file you download.

Bukkit

To get Bukkit plugins, you can visit the website - https://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins You can search for plugins and sort them by most popular, last updated, date created, etc. You can also search for plugins specific to a server version. You can even search for plugins based on their caetgory! When you find a plugin you like, you can download the file for it.

| Bukkit plugins have a .jar extension to the file you download.

Spigot/Paper

Both spigot and paper plugins ca

Question 6

How to protect and make your Minecraft Server more secure

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This guide is to explain the different ways you can protect your minecraft servers from in-game botting attacks, to hackers rejoining on alts, to preventing backend server access. We will go over the following points -

Protect your servers from being botted
Protect your backend servers connected to a proxy
Protect your servers from VPN joins
Protect your servers from hackers
Protect your server from being DDoSed
General protection practices

🤖 Protecting your server from being botted 🤖

Overview

Botting is a method of attack where a lot of "fake" users join your server in order to crash it. They send network requests to join at fast speeds in order to crash the server. There are free and paid botting services out there, and in general, this type of attack is not something that can be stopped by our in-house DDoS protection, as this is a server-level attack.

Stopping it

We advise you use something like a login plugin to make users set a password on login, or to authenticate user accounts one-by-one. A plugin we recommend using is LoginSecurity. If login plugins still can't stop the attack, you can check out anti-botting plugins such as BotSentry. These plugins are able to detect when a high amount of join requests are requested and enable a

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