Tutorials/Setting up a Minecraft Forge server

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This page will teach the player how to install a Forge server.

1.11.2 to present

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Firstly, you need the Forge installer, which can be downloaded from the official Forge download page. Once downloaded, launch it and choose option "Install server".

If you get error about "Downloading Minecraft server failed, invalid e-tag checksum.", you will need to install a vanilla Minecraft server and then run Forge installer. The vanilla server can be downloaded in their respective pages. The recommended version is 1.14.4.

Once you launched vanilla server (don't forget to change EULA), install Forge and you are done. Now you can launch Forge server by double clicking "forge-version-xx.xx.x.xxxx-version.universal.jar" or using the command below.

Video version

This tutorial is intended for Windows users, but may be of some use to users who use other operating systems (Mac, Linux).

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 java -Xmx1G -Xms1G -jar minecraftforge-universal-1.6.2-9.10.0.804.jar nogui

1.5 and prior

This tutorial is intended for Windows users, but may be of some use to users who use other operating systems (Mac, Linux)

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java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui

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If the server start text doesn't work then try renaming the minecraft_server to 'minecraft_server.jar' without the apostrophes. Or you could use this server start text instead:

java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui

If you receive the "Java is not recognized" message, replace "java" with its file location. (e.g.: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin\javaw.exe") The full string would be:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin\javaw.exe" -Xmx1G -Xms1G -jar forge-1.7.2-10.12.2.1121-universal.jar nogui pause

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