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.

How to connect to your server:

Connecting with the IP and port (java edition):

Copy the IP and Port to your clipbo

Question 2

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

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 3

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 4

How to Upload a Custom World to your Server

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In this article, we learn how to upload custom worlds. We'll go over uploading a custom world per device type. It's recommended to get the software WinRAR so that you can zip your files so uploads can happen faster

Java Edition

To get your local worlds for Java edition, you need to first navigate to the directory where your files are stored.

Windows Press Win+R, type %appdata%\.minecraft\saves and press Ok.
MacOS Open Finder then paste: ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft in the Search box.
Linux ~ is your home directory, usually /home/YOURNAME, so ~/.minecraft would be /home/YOURNAME/.minecraft/.

Bedrock Edition

To get your local worlds from bedrock edition, each device has a special directory to where you can find your files. Let's break it down

Windows Press Win+R, type %LocalAppData%\Packages\Microsoft.MinecraftUWP_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\games\com.mojang\minecraftWorlds and press Ok.
Android & Amazon Fire OS Worlds present in /sdcard/games/com.mojang/minecraftWorlds . It may not be in your sd card in particular, just find the folder games
Apple iOS Apps/com.mojang.minecraftpe/Documents/games/com.mojang/minecraftWorlds . It may not be in the particular specified directory, just find the folder games
Xbox Minecraft for Xbox one files are stored locally on the console. If you sign in with an Xbox Live account, your worlds will also be backed up to Xbox One cloud game saves. You can also use a file explorer ( paid ) and

Question 5

How to install and use GeyserMC [Java]

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In this article, we will guide you how to install and use the GeyserMC plugin on your, a bridge between java and bedrock, allowing bedrock players to connect to java servers.

If you want to install Geyser for BungeeCord, you only need to install the plugin on the proxy server, following this similar guide then all the target servers will have geyser implemented.

Getting started

To begin, you can first download the plugin file from https://ci.opencollab.dev//job/GeyserMC/job/Geyser/job/master/

Download the plugin file for your respective server software! ( Note - download Geyser-spigot.jar if your server software is purpur/tuinity/paper/spigot/bukkit ). Once downloaded, upload your plugin to the plugins directory in your server files, using file manager in the WitherHosting dashboard, or by using sFTP. | Make sure your server is stopped while uploading the plugin! Now, start and stop your server, to generate the files required for geyser.

Configuration

Edit the config.yml file ( located in plugins --> geyser ) to have the following values -

Set the address as 0.0.0.0in the bedrock IP address ( line 13 ).
Set the port as your server port provided by WitherHosting in the port section ( line 15 ).
Set the address as your ip address for your server provided by WitherHosting in the address field ( line 41 ).
Set the port as your server port provided by WitherHosting in the

Question 6

How to optimize your Minecraft Server and read Timings

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| In this article we will learn how to optimize your Minecraft server to its fullest. Please note, this isn't a magic set of instructions that will remove all lag from your server, but they will help.

||| This article is a little different from our others, being that it will be updated very frequently to make it the best it can be.

Software that this applies for:

Paper and any of its forks

Software that this doesn't apply for:

Pocketmine
Nukkit
Vanilla Bedrock
Vanilla Java
Spigot or below forks
Others

|| * If you are using Spigot or any below forks, you really shouldn't be and should be using more optimised forks, like Paper or Purpur (we recommend purpur).

Key Terms:

TPS is the ticks per second. There are 20 minecraft ticks in one irl second, therefore if your server isn't lagging, it should be running at 20TPS. MSPT is how long each tick takes. The lower this number is, the better. Ping (ms). 99.9% of the time, this is not related to your servers performance, and rather, the location delay between your client and the server.

Getting started:

The first section will require editing your server config files that are located in the root folder of your server. To get to these files if you don't know how to, follow this mini guide:

Getting to and editing config files:

Go to the panel, at witherpanel.com
Select the server from the list.
Navigate

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