minecraft Installing a Spigot server Spigot Installation

Example

Windows

1. Get spigot.jar using BuildTools or from here.

2. Paste the following text into a text document. Save it as start.bat in the same directory as spigot.jar: You will need to rename your jar to spigot.jar, or modify the file in the bat file to point to the correct file. nb: Windows (by default) will hide the .jar extension of the file.

    @echo off
    java -Xmx1G -jar spigot.jar
    pause
   

3. Double click the batch file.

Linux

1. Get spigot.jar using BuildTools or from here.

2. Create a new startup script (start.sh) in the directory to launch the the JAR: #!/bin/sh

    java -Xmx1G -jar spigot.jar
   

3. Open your terminal and execute the following in the directory: chmod +x start.sh

4. Run your start up script:

    ./start.sh
   

Mac

1. Get spigot.jar using BuildTools or from here.

2. Create a new startup script (start.command) to launch the JAR: #!/bin/sh

    cd "$( dirname "$0" )"
    java -Xmx1G -jar spigot.jar
   

3. Open Terminal and type into it: (Don't hit enter!)

    chmod a+x
   

4. Drag your startup script file into the Terminal window. (Be sure to put a space between chmod a+x and your startup script!)

5. Double click your startup script.