Minecraft-Overviewer is a minecraft mapcreator and viewer for webpages.

In this guide we setup an automatic rendering server based on:

• Fedora 28
• My copr repos enaut/minecraft-overviewer-weekly
• systemd
• systemd.timer

When the server is set up with systemd and rcon it is still quite cumbersome to connect to the command promt.

To get a nice and slick command center I created a bash script that opens up a tmux session with two panes. The first pane contains the the already logged in command promt of the minecraftserver and the second pane contains the last 40 journal entries and updates live if anything new is coming.

Minecraft is a well liked sandbox game that can provide hours and days of gaming fun especially if it is on a server with multiple players.

In this article I will describe the setup I used. The important parts of the setup are:

• spigot as the server
• Fedora 28 is the OS I'm on
• systemd including service file and "sandboxing"
• firewalld to block and open ports
• mcrcon for connecting to the running instance
• java-openjdk for - you know - minecraft