You should be greeted with a Minecraft world and an error when you break a block near spawn. To test that the server is running, open Minecraft and connect to localhost: Open it up, change it from false to true, and run start.bat again. The first time you run spigot.jar, it will create a EULA.txt file for legal reasons. You will get an error and the program will exit.
If you’re only running this server for a few people, or for yourself on the same machine, 1gb of RAM will do just fine, but if you want you can change the -Xmx argument to a higher amount. Java -Xms512M -Xmx1024M -XX:MaxPermSize=128M -jar spigot.jar It will open in Notepad, and paste this script off
Make a new text document, name it start.bat, right click it and select edit. When it finishes you should see the command prompt and a bunch of files in the folder you put the BuildTools jar in. The BuildTools program will now download all necessary source code and compile the server jar files automatically. Just cd to the folder you put the BuildTools jar in, and run it with java -jar:
If you have experience with Unix terminals, you should be familiar with how to use it. Run Git bash and you will see a terminal window. When Git is finished installing, open the start menu and you should see a new application in your programs folder. Run the Git for Windows setup and wait patiently until the progress bar reaches the end. Make sure you have the latest version of Java.Ĭreate a folder to house all of your server files and stick the BuildTools jar in it: You can download the latest version of BuildTools here. You will also need Git for Windows. The Spigot Team automate this with a program called BuildTools. Spigot does not have a download it must be compiled from source.
When the Bukkit downloads were taken down, the Spigot project continued to update the software, making it now the biggest choice for modded servers and the only choice for modded 1.8 servers. It uses the Bukkit API, so all plugins compatible with Bukkit are compatible with Spigot. Spigot was designed to make CraftBukkit faster and more efficient. Due to some legal troubles, the CraftBukkit project was shut down, and has not been updated to 1.8, the newest Minecraft version. The actual implementation of the Bukkit API was called CraftBukkit, and as Minecraft grew, CraftBukkit grew to be the best choice for medium and large sized servers. Bukkit was born when developers and modders were dissatisfied with the closed source and lack of features in the official server, and wanted a more modular and customizable server solution. Spigot is a modified fork of the Bukkit API, which is itself a modified fork of the official Minecraft server released by Mojang.