metaruss

This is a brain-dump of what I ended up doing to setup an “Eaglercraft Server”.  I’ve been running small Minecraft servers since around 2011.  It was just for myself and a few of my work colleagues.  I enjoyed experiencing MC coming out of beta and eventually growing up.  We ended up with two servers, the original that started in Beta1.3 became a creative server and a “newer” 1.4 server running in survival mode.  Over time, I eventually lost interest in the game but left the servers running.  Like so many kids over the past decade or so, mine inevitably got into MC in a big way and still spend time on the old servers with their friends from time to time.  I also stood up a third server for them to have a fresh start, since the old worlds are massive and had been generated using such old versions (there are some pretty weird chunk transitions in places).  One day, my youngest asked me if I could help him setup an “Eaglercraft Server”.  Boy, what a rabbit hole that turned out to be…

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