PaperMC in a docker container. PaperMC is a fork of the Minecraft Server API Spigot which aims to improve performance, reduce memory usage and to simplify aswell as to improve the API usage.

To find out more about Paper visit https://papermc.io/ or https://github.com/PaperMC/Paper

The package is available on GitHub Container Registry as ghcr.io/benpueschel/paper-docker:main. To automatically pull the image and run a container, use:

docker run -p 25565:25565 -d --rm --name my-paper-server \
-v my-paper-volume:/home/minecraft/paper \
ghcr.io/benpueschel/paper-docker:main

Container uses the following environment variables:

• MC_VERSION: target minecraft version. defaults to latest
• PAPER_BUILD: target build. defaults to latest
• MIN_RAM: jvm min heap size (-Xms). Defaults to 256M
• MAX_RAM: jvm max heap size (-Xmx). Defaults to 1G
• JAVA_OPTS: extra options to be passed to the jvm. optional

First, clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/benpueschel/paper-docker.git && cd paper-docker

Then build the image with:

docker build -t my-paper-image .

Finally, run the container with the custom image using:

docker run -p 25565:25565 -d --rm --name my-paper-server \
-v my-paper-volume:/home/minecraft/paper \
my-paper-image