Now you can start to customize your server with the various options included and plugins that you can download. You should connect to the world that was generated a moment ago. To connect to it, open the version of Minecraft your server is on, click Multiplayer, then Direct Connect, and type in localhost as the server IP. Some new files will be created in the Spigot directory.Ĭongratulations! Your server is now up and running.
In your text editor, select File > Save As, and navigate to the Spigot directory. (the # is your allocated ram, you can choose anything, but it can crash the hosting machine if you allocate more ram than the hosting machine has, at least, if it's needed) Java -Xms#G -Xmx#G -XX:+UseG1GC -jar spigot.jar -nogui Next, open a text editor such as Notepad, and paste the following command off Copy the file "spigot-jar" to the Spigot folder, and rename it to spigot.jar Next, create a folder on your desktop named " Spigot". Once it is done running, open the BuildTools folder created in the same directory as the executable. Note that this may take a while, depending on your connection and your computer. It will start running, and you can wait a bit until it has finished running. Open the BuildToolsGUI.exe file, and if you wish, change the version with the drop-down menu.
Now that we have BuildToolsGUI, we are ready to start. If you have used your computer for a while, you probably already have it.
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