One of my kids is loving Minecraft , so we decided to setup a a Minecraft server to have a persisting world were we can play together and have some of his friends playing from their home. There is a lot of information in how to setup an environment in Linux, but  I wanted the challenge and why not use one of the most secure OSes as a host.

Minecraft server running on OpenBSD

The following posts will go over the steps required to setup a Minecraft server from scratch in OpenBSD 5.8. These are the main steps to follow (total install time 2 hours):

1. Install OpenBSD
2. Install Packages
3. Configure Java
4. Install the Minecraft server and test
5. Configure the Minecraft server
6. Kick staring your players
7. Setup a service to start the Minecraft server at boot
8. References

Minecraft References

• Gamepedia.com  Wiki http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/
• Minecraft ID List: http://minecraft-ids.grahamedgecombe.com/
• Admin Commands: http://www.ign.com/wikis/minecraft/Admin_and_Server_Commands
• Server Creation: http://www.ign.com/wikis/minecraft/Server_Creation

References:

• http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2013/04/youve-installed-it-now-what-packages.html
• https://forum.ivorde.com/reloading-etc-profile-how-to-reload-unix-etc-profile-t19736.html
• http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/23579/how-to-apply-updates-on-openbsd-netbsd-and-freebsd
• http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/howto-set-global-environment-variable-e-g-PATH-JAVA-HOME-td46010.html
• https://coderwall.com/p/l5twrg/openbsd-java-and-etc-login-conf

• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-minecraft-server-on-linux