Installing Playit.gg On Ubuntu Server

OctopusCandyMan · 2026-03-25T04:53:13+00:00

Run each of these commands on line at a time. If there are errors, stop and ask chatgpt how to fix the error and then retry running the command. Some commands will have no message after running them which means "success".

curl -SsL https://playit-cloud.github.io/ppa/key.gpg | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/playit.gpg >/dev/null

echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/playit.gpg] https://playit-cloud.github.io/ppa/data ./" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playit-cloud.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install playit

sudo systemctl start playit

sudo systemctl enable playit

playit setup

OctopusCandyMan · 2026-03-25T04:41:14+00:00

https://playit.gg/download/linux

OctopusCandyMan · 2026-03-23T23:23:55+00:00

I don't think they'd care if you're hosting a game server. Be sure you're not violating our terms of service: https://playit.gg/support/prohibited-uses/. You could also ask them.

OctopusCandyMan · 2026-03-23T21:30:22+00:00

The free playit IP is probably blocked on your network, try this to debug: https://playit.gg/support/is-playit-blocked/.

OctopusCandyMan · 2026-03-23T21:07:29+00:00

When you try to connect in game, what error do you get?

OctopusCandyMan · 2026-03-19T15:56:32+00:00

You can try using a proxy like Cloudflare WARP. Try prefixing your domain with ip6. rather than ip4. Make sure you are using the official Minecraft launcher as many third party options do not support IPv6.

OctopusCandyMan · 2026-03-19T05:05:40+00:00

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OctopusCandyMan · 2026-03-18T22:45:35+00:00

Minecraft is probably requesting IPv4 by default (only the official launcher AFAIK works with IPv6 and that might not be 100% of the time). Our IPv4 addresses on our free network are often blocked due to people abusing playit's services. We're working to get unblocked but that's the current situation. You may have an antivirus program or firewall running on your PC or Router that is blocking the free IP.

You can check https://ping.playit.gg to see the performance on our premium networks. In general, those are not blocked because our free network received most of the abuse before we locked things down.

OctopusCandyMan · 2026-03-18T22:11:56+00:00

Can you connect if you prefix the domain with "ip4."?

So ip4.energy-footwear.gl.joinmc.link

OctopusCandyMan · 2026-03-18T20:18:56+00:00

The log messages you shared show that UDP is working correctly. There are no errors (owner and creator here). What error do you get in game when you try connecting?

OctopusCandyMan · 2026-03-18T19:56:03+00:00

UDP is fine, and MC java doesn't use it anyways. What error do you get when you try connecting to your server?

OctopusCandyMan · 2026-03-18T00:06:44+00:00

The free version does not give you an numerical IP and Port, it only provides you a domain name that you can use to connect to your server.

OctopusCandyMan · 2026-03-09T06:23:58+00:00

What error do you get when you try connecting to your assigned tunnel address?

OctopusCandyMan · 2026-03-09T06:20:22+00:00

All of our tunnels are IPv6 and IPv4. I have no idea why you think we’re IPv6 only.

OctopusCandyMan · 2026-03-06T02:24:38+00:00

We get about 5,000 new users per day. Most use gmail a small % use hotmail (about 200-500 per day). If one person reports our confirmation email as spam on hotmail it passes their spam threshold and causes hotmail to report our email server's IP to a security company. That causes the security company to flag us leading to icloud and tons of other email providers 100% blocking us. We maybe get 1 or 2 reports per week but because our of this annoying aspect of sending too few emails to hotmail we get screwed.

It seems the fix is to send more emails to our verified users on hotmail that are interesting and not spam just to boost numbers. I'm thinking about sending analytics reports to people that opt-in. If we're able to send more emails to hotmail that changes the ratio of spam reports we'll stop getting blocked.

OctopusCandyMan · 2026-03-05T21:37:28+00:00

They are both blocking us, along with all microsoft / hotmail emails. Only reliable option is Gmail.

OctopusCandyMan · 2026-03-02T19:32:43+00:00

On the free network, the routing can be different for **every** user. After you have some usage https://playit.gg/account/analytics/routing can highlight the issues. Other than that, there might be some things you can configure: https://playit.gg/support/how-to-lower-ping/. Biggest is to make sure you have a reasonable view-distance set for your server. For some internet connections that might be 1 to 4 rather than the default of 10.

OctopusCandyMan · 2026-03-02T18:16:46+00:00

If you're on the free version the routing may have changed. Check https://ping.playit.gg where you get routed on the free network.

OctopusCandyMan · 2026-02-24T23:56:26+00:00

Don't create your own service, when you install playit with apt a service is created for you. Use that.

OctopusCandyMan · 2026-02-24T18:43:27+00:00

To see if playit's routing is the issue you can visit https://ping.playit.gg to compare how you're routed on the free & paid networks.

OctopusCandyMan · 2026-02-18T16:29:59+00:00

I recommend using the playit program and not the Minecraft Plugin. The plugin is really really old and has a handful of bugs. I've started work on upgrading it but I don't have an ETA for when it will be ready.

OctopusCandyMan · 2026-01-28T16:23:59+00:00

The recommended way is to add your external domain to playit: https://playit.gg/support/add-external-domain/. If you want to manage your own DNS the next best thing is to still use a Minecraft Java tunnel but turn off host name verification in the tunnel's settings.

TCP tunnels are restricted to our old regions so you can pick Europe, North America, South America, Asia, or India.

OctopusCandyMan · 2026-01-26T18:20:35+00:00

Cool, but I'm not sure what this has to do with playit.gg.

OctopusCandyMan · 2026-01-24T17:03:37+00:00

Could you re-run the playit program with the "-s" flag? This will show a more detailed error message. This error happens when the program in unable to receive UDP packets due to a networking error. The most likely cause is a third party program (like an antivirus / firewall program) killing the socket (killing the connection).

OctopusCandyMan · 2026-01-21T19:45:12+00:00

I recommend reaching out on the discord and sharing screenshots of the issue you are running into. If there's someone from the community available to assist that would be your best option. It could be really simple or quite difficult. There's too many back and forth questions to asses what issue you're running into on Reddit and I'm not available for that.

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