Your first server

A server in the panel is a container, a directory of files, and a few values around them. Creating one is an operator's job — owner or admin.

Eggs

An egg is a recipe: which image to use, what command starts the server, which variables to offer, and what to do on install. The format is Pterodactyl's and Pelican's, so eggs from that ecosystem work unchanged.

Admin → Eggs holds the library — what the panel offers when you create a server. You add to it from the catalog or by uploading a JSON file.

For Minecraft, what ships inside is enough.

Creating one

Dashboard → New server. You fill in:

A name. A label, changeable at any time.

The egg, and an image with it. Most eggs offer several Java versions; pick the one your game version wants.

Memory and CPU. Blank or zero means no limit. For Minecraft, remember the number here is a ceiling for the whole container — the Java inside will take less.

A port. Zero lets the panel pick a free one. The port is opened on the firewall and on the container, on TCP and UDP together, because server queries and voice chat both want it.

Variables. Whatever the egg offers — game version, seed, world name. Some are locked, because the egg keeps them itself.

On confirm the panel makes the directory, runs the install and moves you to the console.

The install

The install runs in a one-shot container and its output streams into the console live — you see what is downloading and where it stalls if it does. A large modpack takes minutes.

When it finishes the server exists and is stopped. You start it yourself.

If the install fails, the server stays in install_failed and the console says why. Most often a variable the egg expected is missing.

Starting it

The buttons at the top: Start, Stop, Restart, Kill.

Stop sends the server its own shutdown command — stop for Minecraft — and waits for the world to save and the server to exit on its own. Kill ends it immediately and can lose unsaved data. Use it when Stop did not work.

Changing things afterwards

Startup changes the command, the image and the variables. It applies on the next start.

Network manages ports. The first is the primary game port.

Settings is the name and the limits.

Reinstall runs the egg's install again over the existing files. Configuration survives, but whatever the egg overwrites, it overwrites — take a backup first.

Uploading files

A modpack, a plugin or a config can be uploaded in the Files tab, or over SFTP.

As of 0.3.0 this simply works. It used to happen that a server would not start after a file was uploaded, because it had no rights to it, and the only cure was a hand-run SSH command. That cause is gone.

Next: The console.