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Minecraft Vanilla server on Linux: JAR, EULA and screen session

Elias Bieber9 March 2026

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Start your own Minecraft Vanilla server: download server.jar, set eula=true, launch with 2 GB RAM via Java and keep the screen session running in background.

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Minecraft Vanilla server (Linux)

mkdir minecraft && cd minecraft

wget https://piston-data.mojang.com/v1/objects/84194a2f286ef7c14ed7ce0090dba59902951553/server.jar

In eula.txt set: eula=true

screen -S minecraft

java -Xmx2048M -Xms2048M -jar server.jar nogui

Detach: Ctrl+A, D. Reattach: screen -r minecraft. Players connect to server-IP:25565.

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