
The location doesn’t matter but you’ll have to use the location later. Create a new key pair, give it a name indicating that it’s for your minecraft server, and click “Download Key Pair”. This will let you ssh in to your instance once it’s launched. You’ll get a popup prompting you to create a key pair. I used t3a.large.Ĭlick “Review and Launch” and then on the next page “Launch” to accept the defaults. Select Ubuntu 18.04 Select a general purpose instance type. But the t3a.large only costs about 8 cents an hour and you can shut it off when you’re not using it. The free tier, t2.micro, probably doesn’t have enough compute or RAM to run minecraft well. I selected the Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS server for x86 and a t3a.large instance type.

Select “Launch Instance” from the EC2 console There are instructions for other OSes here.įirst, go to the AWS console (amazon account required), go to the EC2 section, and click to launch an instance. You could use a different OS and/or a different hosting service. I’m going to use an Ubuntu server running on AWS. Now when you connect to the server the Witchcraft and Wizardry content should load properly!Ĭonfiguring Your Server Setting up an AWS Instance.Click the new pack to move it to the right side, click Done, and go back to the game.Once you’ve copied the unzipped resources folder, close and reopen the Resource Packs screen to refresh the options.You can find the directory by going to the menu and selecting Options… -> Resource Packs… -> Open Resource Pack Folder.You need to put the unzipped Witchcraft and Wizardry/resources directory in your resourcepacks directory.Create a new install with version 1.13.2.Now you can restart your minecraft server with.cp -r Witchcraft_and_Wizardry/* minecraft/world/.unzip minecraft/resources.zip -d minecraft/resources.mv Witchcraft_and_Wizardry/resources.zip minecraft/resources.zip.Copy the file at to the home directory of your EC2 Instance.resource-pack=/home/ubuntu/minecraft/resources.Edit the following lines in ~/minecraft/server.properties:.

Adding the Witchcraft and Wizardry mod:.java -Xmx2G -Xms2G -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui.so that it keeps running even if you disconnect. I recommend starting the server with tmux, screen, in the background, etc.Add inbound rules to the security group:.

