Minecraft Server in Docker

This repository contains the Dockerfile and associated assets for building a Minecraft server 1.21.5 Docker image

Requirements

Install docker

Fedora / Centos

yum install -y docker.io

Ubuntu / Debian

apt-get -y install docker.io

Create a directory for your world file, configuration, and logs

mkdir -p $HOME/minecraft/worlds
mkdir -p $HOME/minecraft/configurations

Create config file

Create or edit the $HOME/minecraft/configurations/server.properties file to customize server configuration.
In this link you can find the official documentation: https://minecraft-it.gamepedia.com/Server.properties

Start your docker container

sudo docker run -it -p 25565:25565 -v $HOME/minecraft/worlds:/opt/minecraft/worlds -v $HOME/minecraft/configurations/serverconfig.txt:/opt/minecraft/serverconfig.txt --name="minecraft" lorenzocomotti/docker-minecraft:latest

If you also want to use RCON, you must also expose the following port 25575