mc-server-wrapper

Lightweight Rust program to manage a Java Minecraft server process (vanilla, Spigot, or PaperSpigot), providing niceties such as a Discord chat bridge, server restart-on-crash, and improved console output.

This has been running over top of a small server of mine 24/7 since March 2020 with zero crashes / major issues of any kind. I'd consider it ready for small-scale production usage.

Features

• Runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows
• Optionally enabled bi-directional Discord chat bridge (see Discord Bridge Setup)
  • Commands (prefixed by !mc):
    • list: replies with a list of people playing Minecraft
  • Embeds, mentions, and attachments in Discord messages are neatly formatted in Minecraft
  • Bot status message displays server info (such as the names of online players)
• Run server with configurable memory allocation
  • Also allows passing custom JVM flags if desired
• Restart server on crash
• Auto-agree to EULA
• Improved console output formatting

Installation

Downloading

You can download prebuilt binaries in the releases section.

Building

You can also build and install from source (requires an up-to-date Rust install):

cargo install --git https://github.com/Cldfire/mc-server-wrapper.git --locked

Usage

Generate a default config (customize the config path with the -c flag if desired):

mc-server-wrapper -g

Edit the config as required, explanation of options below. You can then start the server with the following (if you used the -c flag above use it again here):

mc-server-wrapper

Run mc-server-wrapper --help for some CLI args to quickly override the config with.

Config

[minecraft]
# The path to the server jar
server_path = "./server.jar"
# The memory in megabytes to allocate for the server
memory = 1024
# If you would like to pass custom flags to the JVM you can do so here
jvm_flags = "-XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200"

# The Discord section is optional
[discord]
# Enable or disable the Discord bridge
enable_bridge = true
# The Discord bot token
token = "..."
# The Discord channel ID to bridge to
channel_id = 123
# Enable or disable bot status message updates
update_status = true

# Valid log levels: error, warn, info, debug, trace
#
# Logging levels set here only affect file logging
[logging]
# The log level for general mc-server-wrapper dependencies
all = "Warn"
# The log level for mc-server-wrapper
self = "Debug"
# The log level for Discord-related dependencies
discord = "Info"

Discord bridge setup

• Register an application and a bot with Discord
• Enable some things in the Privileged Gateway Intents section of the bot's admin portal
  • Toggle Server Members Intent on
    • This is used to receive member updates from your guild (such as when someone changes their nickname so we can change the name we display in-game)
  • Toggle Message Content Intent on
    • This is used to receive messsage content from the channel for the chat bridge in Discord so we can relay chat there into Minecraft
• Add the bot to the guild you want to bridge to
• Get the ID of the channel you want to bridge to (Google this for instructions)
• Provide the bot token and channel ID in the config file
• Enable the Discord bridge in the config file or with the -b flag

Future plans

• Simple web and CLI interface to administrate server
  • Change most common settings
  • View online players
  • Chat from the web
  • Different levels of accounts (user, admin)
• further ideas here

Library

The binary for this project is built on top of a library; if you want to implement a different feature set than the one I've chosen to, or implement the features in a different way, you can easily do so. See the mc-server-wrapper-lib README and its basic example for more.

cargo run --example basic -- path/to/server.jar

Screenshot

Early screenshot, subject to change:

License