Minecraft Hardcore Server Tools

True multiplayer hardcore experience ✅

Whenever a player dies, everyone online is instantaneously switched to spectator mode for 90 sec. Then, automatically, the server is shut down, a backup of the deleted world is created and a new seed is generated, playable within ~5 min.

Provided with some scripts for a discord bot and a python script to extract statistics across all backup files.

Requirements 📑

A linux machine with Python3, cron and JAVA. See Troubleshooting section for hardcoded things to change in the code.

Then:

• Need Spigot (worked with 1.16.5) to create the server

• Need Skript pluggin to trigger the hardcore.sk script when someone dies

• Put in cron with crontab -e:

  • */1 * * * * $(which python3) /path/to/mc/minecraft.py check >> /path/to/mc/cron.log
  • It checks every minute if the server is still running. If not, a backup is created, the world is deleted and a new seed is generated.

• ScriptBot (worked with 1.2) for cool discord integration

  • eventhandler.java in server\plugins\ScriptBot\scripts displays cool messages on death for example.

Bonus: Other cool bot to show in status how many players connected:

Troubleshooting 🛠

⚠ Hardcoded things to change:

• minecraft.py:

  • l.22 : path to mc/server
  • l.29 : path to mc/backup

• getStatistics.py:

  • l.28 : path to mc

• ScriptBot/config.yml:

  • l.7 : discord bot-token

• ScriptBot/scripts/*:

  • bot.getTextChannelById : discord channel ID

⚠ Important to add a whitelist to use getStatistics.py.

⚠ If JAVA problems: need to have this JAVA version for Spigot to work:

java -version
sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk

Should see and pick this version with sudo update-alternatives --config java:

2            /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java   1081      manual mode

Credits ®

minecraft.py arranged from: https://github.com/tschuy/minecraft-server-control