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    Thinking of starting a home minecraft server

    Water Closet
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    • DonahueD
      Donahue @JaredBusch
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      @JaredBusch said in Thinking of starting a home minecraft server:

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      You sir, deserve 🍻

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      • DustinB3403D
        DustinB3403
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        I'm assuming you already own the game, but for anyone who wants to play a game like Minecraft but one that is open source check out Minetest.

        FOSS and playing with friends/family is quick to do.

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        • DonahueD
          Donahue @DustinB3403
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          @DustinB3403 said in Thinking of starting a home minecraft server:

          I'm assuming you already own the game, but for anyone who wants to play a game like Minecraft but one that is open source check out Minetest.

          FOSS and playing with friends/family is quick to do.

          link?

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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403 @Donahue
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            @Donahue said in Thinking of starting a home minecraft server:

            @DustinB3403 said in Thinking of starting a home minecraft server:

            I'm assuming you already own the game, but for anyone who wants to play a game like Minecraft but one that is open source check out Minetest.

            FOSS and playing with friends/family is quick to do.

            link?

            Minetest.net

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            • ObsolesceO
              Obsolesce @Donahue
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              @Donahue said in Thinking of starting a home minecraft server:

              I've got a pair of laptops that we are going to be giving to my boys (8 and 7) soon. One reason is to start them working with a full computer. The other reason is so that we can all play minecraft together. So far, I have been playing on a PC and they have their fire tablets, but those are clunky. I am thinking of taking an old desktop that I have and turning it into a little home server running hyper-v or KVM. Then running a minecraft server or two in VM's. The PC already has licensed windows 10, which is why I would consider hyper-v, but part of me wants to try out KVM and play around with it.

              I have been keeping a free Minecraft server going the past year or two on my VPS. It ran extremely well 24/7 no lag with a bunch of players on it.

              It is stopped ATM because the VPS died a week or so ago and I just didn't have time to set it back up yet.

              I have the server and everything backed up so I can just restore the Minecraft server once I get Fedora installed again on it.

              I'll give you the link once I get it restored.

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              • ObsolesceO
                Obsolesce @Obsolesce
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                @Obsolesce said in Thinking of starting a home minecraft server:

                @Donahue said in Thinking of starting a home minecraft server:

                I've got a pair of laptops that we are going to be giving to my boys (8 and 7) soon. One reason is to start them working with a full computer. The other reason is so that we can all play minecraft together. So far, I have been playing on a PC and they have their fire tablets, but those are clunky. I am thinking of taking an old desktop that I have and turning it into a little home server running hyper-v or KVM. Then running a minecraft server or two in VM's. The PC already has licensed windows 10, which is why I would consider hyper-v, but part of me wants to try out KVM and play around with it.

                I have been keeping a free Minecraft server going the past year or two on my VPS. It ran extremely well 24/7 no lag with a bunch of players on it.

                It is stopped ATM because the VPS died a week or so ago and I just didn't have time to set it back up yet.

                I have the server and everything backed up so I can just restore the Minecraft server once I get Fedora installed again on it.

                I'll give you the link once I get it restored.

                I'm waiting for my VPS hosting company to add a Fedora 28 ISO so I can start there. Last time I loaded it, it was Fedora 26. I don't feel like starting there. After that, I should have it up soon after.

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                • DashrenderD
                  Dashrender @Donahue
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                  @Donahue said in Thinking of starting a home minecraft server:

                  @Dashrender said in Thinking of starting a home minecraft server:

                  @Donahue said in Thinking of starting a home minecraft server:

                  only because I don't want to lose a valid windows 10 installation unless I do it on purpose.

                  HUH? That's sunk cost thinking.

                  You're making this into a server, then do what makes it sing as a server best. Installing Windows 10, then using Hyper-V on (actually likely under) windows 10, you still can't turn off the Win10 VM, so you'll be giving up resources to it for no reason.

                  I might want a windows VM. If I install KVM, I can't get windows for a later workload without paying for it. It is sunk cost, but it's also just a home project. The most it would do is probably share some storage inside the home LAN.

                  I'm late back to this - but you could install your Windows 10 into a VM under KVM, your current license would be totally valid for such an install.

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                  • ObsolesceO
                    Obsolesce @Dashrender
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                    @Dashrender said in Thinking of starting a home minecraft server:

                    @Donahue said in Thinking of starting a home minecraft server:

                    @Dashrender said in Thinking of starting a home minecraft server:

                    @Donahue said in Thinking of starting a home minecraft server:

                    only because I don't want to lose a valid windows 10 installation unless I do it on purpose.

                    HUH? That's sunk cost thinking.

                    You're making this into a server, then do what makes it sing as a server best. Installing Windows 10, then using Hyper-V on (actually likely under) windows 10, you still can't turn off the Win10 VM, so you'll be giving up resources to it for no reason.

                    I might want a windows VM. If I install KVM, I can't get windows for a later workload without paying for it. It is sunk cost, but it's also just a home project. The most it would do is probably share some storage inside the home LAN.

                    I'm late back to this - but you could install your Windows 10 into a VM under KVM, your current license would be totally valid for such an install.

                    This is true. I even had MS support remote in to my Win10 VM running on KVM (on my laptop) to activate it since it was having activation issues. I told them exactly the setup and it is fully supported... they could clearly see it was on KVM when they looked in the System Info. They did some magic to activate it then.

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                    • DonahueD
                      Donahue @Dashrender
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                      @Dashrender said in Thinking of starting a home minecraft server:

                      @Donahue said in Thinking of starting a home minecraft server:

                      @Dashrender said in Thinking of starting a home minecraft server:

                      @Donahue said in Thinking of starting a home minecraft server:

                      only because I don't want to lose a valid windows 10 installation unless I do it on purpose.

                      HUH? That's sunk cost thinking.

                      You're making this into a server, then do what makes it sing as a server best. Installing Windows 10, then using Hyper-V on (actually likely under) windows 10, you still can't turn off the Win10 VM, so you'll be giving up resources to it for no reason.

                      I might want a windows VM. If I install KVM, I can't get windows for a later workload without paying for it. It is sunk cost, but it's also just a home project. The most it would do is probably share some storage inside the home LAN.

                      I'm late back to this - but you could install your Windows 10 into a VM under KVM, your current license would be totally valid for such an install.

                      yeah, I will probably end up doing this.

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                      • ObsolesceO
                        Obsolesce
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                        I have it restored and going again with a nice starting area (big castle and useful things).

                        realmc.minecraftr.us (that's my free afraid.org domain name for it specifically)

                        Or if you prefer, tgserv.timothygruber.com.

                        Oh, it's version 1.12.2. I didn't update it yet because there's a couple plugins I run that haven't updated yet.

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