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Dedicated Servers for ARM Devices

It would be awesome to have official Dedicated Server software for Linux devices that run on ARM chips! This way, one might be able to utilize a spare Raspberry Pi to host a server.

I was personally hoping to be able to run this on one of my Raspberry Pi's until I found out the software is compiled for x86-64 processor architectures.

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    I was looking exactly for this also. It would be amazing to be able to host a small server on a raspi ! I've done it for the java version but Bedrock is more reliable for weak computers and playing on mobile.

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    yes this would be awesome!

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    Voted! This would be incredible, we shouldn't need to rely on cloud servers just to run a server. We only have one option for now, use Docker.

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    I voted! I wanna use this server software on Raspberry Pi

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    yes please

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    This would be awesome! Hope it gets enough votes!

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    I love the setup.

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    I was looking for this too! Looks like a perfect fit for small servers.

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    We definitely need that!

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    I'm all for this!! I could easily host my dedicated server on my pi board no problems 👍 please make this a thing for us!

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    I was hoping for this implementation too. The RaspberryPi and many other SBCs such as the Tinkerboard, Rock 64 and Odroid would be great hardware to run small servers with a small energy footprint.

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    It would be just sooo cool, searched for this for about an hour. NOTHING...

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    yeah NICE! I mean it is the way to not waste money on such a big PC also just make it open source like phone so use your old phone like that even old apple phone is useful I mean its good just make it available on every devices except console but its good JUST SPREAD ALL OVER THE PLACE NICE! well sorry for caps I use it for my expression somehow :)

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    If you use paper MC as the server jar and on 1.12.2 it's playable, lags when someone goes through the nether but that's all. 1.13+ seems a bit too much but the only reason is because minecraft only uses 1 core for most all of everything. But if it were to use all cores and actually have multi-threaded support it would be beautiful. So please vote for this

    https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/community/posts/360047514492--Java-Edition-Add-Multithreading-Support-for-Minecraft-Servers

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    Agreed However lets take it a step further.

    Instead of just adding one ARM device (namely the Raspberry Pi) Why not make it open source. I can see why this would be frowned upon by Microsoft and Mojang so you don't have to do it completely. Make a compiled version, kinda like a zip or jar, but also provide a make file of some way so that if you get a little more involve you could compile for almost all devices with make files created by the community. This also opens gates for DIY devices, sorta like an Arduino or a Raspberry Pi without clutter of an OS, etc..., that only runs the server and is highly optimized for the engine.

     

    TL;DR -

    Make files to allow for more platforms to host servers.

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    Would love to see Bedrock server port for my pi. They are more than powerful enough these day and for a small family server these would be ideal.

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    I was looking exactly for this also. It would be amazing to be able to host a small server on a raspi

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    I was so disappointed when I saw that I couldn't host servers on my pi. Please add this!

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    Specifically Linux ARM builds, not so much interested in Windows ARM builds :|

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    I am voting on this YES!!! I just tried to set one up on my new Pi4 and was sad that there is no precompiled arm version!

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    I know this is old but...

    You can use community-maintained versions such as PaperMC.

    I run a PaperMC server right now on my Raspberry Pi 4 for me and my friends

     

    Official support would be greatly appreciated tho, as that would likely mean even more optimisation to allow such low-powered devices to host more than a couple players before lagging

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    Just got my first Pi and was pretty disappointed that you can't run a dedicated server. Please make this one happen!

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    Would also like to see a linux arm distribution of the alpha server software.

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    Originally I thought this was a great idea. Unfortunately it's not. The PI doesn't have enough power to run a server properly.
    Switch to running the server on a with 4GB RAM on a docker container. It works great and is easier to maintain than it would be on a PI.
    This isn't a way forward for Bedrock Dedicated Servers. This comes from someone who also got a PI to run a server. Since setting up on docker, and successfully run a server for a while, forget the idea of of using a PI. It's a non-starter.

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    Yes this would be great.

    Actually i turn a server with a raspberry pi (Nukkit) for minecraft bedrock version but it still have bad point like mobspawning, also the End which is very badly generate (server uses plugins).

    I test the official minecraft bedrock server and its look very nice

     

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    I'm currently running Nukkit, which is good as far as being able to get in and play, but obviously lags behind in a full set of features. 

    PLEASE MAKE THE BEDROCK EDITION AVAILABLE FOR LINUX ARM!!!!

    Now to got back and finish updating my Nukkit server so the kids can play with 1.14 clients.

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    agree, raspberry and NAS need.

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    I have no idea how Mojang compiles their Bedrock Server source code, but I suspect that they're at least using GCC or LLVM for the Ubuntu build, and both compilers have mature support for ARM.

    My hope is that adding an ARM build to their Ubuntu build pipeline isn't too difficult as a result. It can totally just be an experimental build for now, given Bedrock Dedicated Server is still in Alpha.

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    Precisely so! I tried to get the Ubuntu Version on a Rock64, but unluckly it can't start because of the format of the executable :(

    Please! That way we don't need to have our main PC up and running to have the server up!

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    Yeah. The only alternative is Nukkit and Pocketmine, both of which does not include all the features Minecraft has to offer.