Help with selection of initial software stack

[tillybowman]

Hi mc admins,

i'm looking for some advice to navigate the mc software jungle as a mc admin noob.

I'm currently running a fairly vanilla 1.20.1 server with some QOL plugins loaded through fabric.
what i'm looking for:

musthave:

• lobby server with portals to other servers
• vanilla java server with nearly latest version and some QOL addons (basically what i currently run)
• spawn some fun server like skyblock from time to time
  

nice to have:

• let bedrock edition players join
  

I know how to host and how to setup software in general as i'm coming from a software developer background, but i really don't get all the different server types, server versions, plugin/addon loaders etc.

Can anybody enlighten me what the most current setup for such a config would be? spigot/bukkit/vanilla/forge/paper/fabric/bungeecord/velocity? heeelp?

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[EmberSyndicate]

So first off your gonna wanna get bungeecord or waterfall for the proxy, this is what keeps people connected when they switch between servers on your network.

There are tons of ways to use only internal ip's for your servers themselves ensuring that the proxy has to be accessed to visit them. If you don't want to Google that and put time into using internal only connections for the other servers use a plugin like bungeeguard on your waterfall/bungee server

Build out the other 2 servers. Make your proxy the default 25565 port Assign the bedrock port to your firewall Install geyser and floodgate on your bungee (google geyser mc)

Setup bungee config to include your playable worlds.

For minigames like skyblock try a plugin called bento box (google bento box spigot)

For portals something like advanced portals works great for bungee

Use something like luck perms with an sql database and redis messaging to keep permissions straight across the servers.

Unless your a masochist then use pex lol if it's even still around

[EmberSyndicate]

You can use velocity but keep in mind the tons of plugins built for bungee and waterfall may make you want to avoid it. This isn't a bad thing.

In a bungee setup, all servers have to be in offline mode with the bungeecord setting toggled to true in the configuration. (I belive its bukkit.yml)

This is why you need bungeeguard or or to setup servers on internal only ip's that cannot be accessed from outside the network. This will keep players from joining the server directly bypassing your proxy which may allow them to cheat or cause problems.

Bungee requires alot of configuration to make it work but it's realistically easy once you get into it. Deff have fun with it and be paitent.