What is the Proxy Protocol? The Proxy Protocol provides a way for your server to receive your client’s true IP. Enable The Proxy Protocol on your Velocity Server After your Velocty server has been started, a configuration file for it should have been generated. This can be found at ./veloctiy.toml. Change the [advanced] haproxy-protocol variable from false to true. Details on Velocity’s configurations can be found here . Note: Normal clients will not be able to connect if they do not send proxy protocol information. Connecting directly with your Minecraft client will no longer work. Read more

What is the Proxy Protocol? The Proxy Protocol provides a way for your server to receive your client’s true IP. Enable The Proxy Protocol on GeyserMC The configuration file for GeyserMC can be difficult to find. If you have GeyserMC installed as a plugin, the configuration should be located at ./plugins/Geyser-Spigot/config.yml. Change the value of bedrock.enable-proxy-protocol from false to true. Enable The Proxy Protocol in your Java Server and update GeyserMC It’s not much use using the Proxy Protocol in GeyserMC if that data isn’t forwarded to your Java Server. For an example on how to setup PaperMC see Setup Proxy Protocol in PaperMC . We also need to tell GeyserMC to forward the client IP information to your Java Server. This can be done by editing the config file again and setting the value remote.use-proxy-protocol from false to true. Read more

What is the Proxy Protocol? The Proxy Protocol provides a way for your server to receive your client’s true IP. Enable The Proxy Protocol on your PaperMC Server After you PaperMC server has been started, a configuration file for paper should have been generated. This can be found at ./config/paper-global.yml. Change the proxies.proxy-protocol variable from false to true. Details on PaperMC’s configurations can be found here . Note: Normal clients will not be able to connect if they do not send proxy protocol information. Connecting directly with your Minecraft client will no longer work. Read more

Dynmap requires your Minecraft server to be running either Bukkit, Spigot, or PaperMC. A server set up with the official Minecraft server will not work. This guide is for installing Dynmap on PaperMC but setting it up Bukkit and Spigot should be similar. If you don’t have PaperMC server setup, check out this guide: Setup a PaperMC Minecraft Server . Step 1. Download Dynmap Click here and download the latest version of Dynmap by clicking on the download button next to the version. Read more

You’ve setup your server with playit.gg and are ready to play. You or another player might be getting the Unknown host this error when trying to connect. This error happens because the computer asks your ISP (Internet Service Provider), what the IP is, and the ISP is silly and reports it being unknown. The Fix You need to update your computer DNS server. How to update the DNS depends on what operating system you’re running. Read more

PaperMC is a Minecraft Server that lets you run plugins! It’s based on Spigot which is based on CraftBukkit, there’s a long history :). It’s a good Minecraft server choice that balances performance and features. Let’s setup our server! Step 1. Download PaperMC Click here to visit the PaperMC Download page. Click the latest build (the build with biggest number) to start the download. Step 2. Setup run.bat for PaperMC Move the downloaded paper-VERSION.jar file into your minecraft server folder (if you don’t have one, just create a new folder called minecraft-server somewhere you can easily find). Next, rename the recently downloaded .jar file to paper-server.jar. This will allow our batch file to work properly. Read more