How To Make a BungeeCord Server

How to Make a BungeeCord Server Network – Introduction

Walking through Minecraft, players discover unseen randomly generated worlds with each more unique than the next. From treacherous adventures across lava-filled ravines to swimming deep into the unknown oceans to find treasures. No matter the paths that are taken, every player decides their own goals and journeys. To share the fun and play together in Minecraft, many players often seek to join or learn how to make a BungeeCord Minecraft server network.

A Minecraft BungeeCord network is a group of Minecraft servers that are linked together, allowing players to join and switch between them. With the ability to link servers, there is a lot of customizability that can be had. This means adding any type of server imaginable from a spawn with portals, a prison with creative plots, or even a faction world with kits.

Making your own BungeeCord network requires quite a few steps making them difficult to set up. With our detailed guide below, we will break down the setup into different parts to ensure you can easily create your very own Minecraft network!

Getting Started with a BungeeCord Server Network

Requirements

To make your BungeeCord server network, you’ll need to have at least three Minecraft servers. These servers include the BungeeCord server, a non-playable server that is used to hold your network together, and then at least two or more playable servers. A playable server is a server that players join when playing on your network, such as Hub, Factions, Skyblock, or Survival. After setup, players join your BungeeCord server to get redirected to your playable servers, which will be linked together. To begin the setup, follow the steps below!

Installing BungeeCord on your Minecraft Server

1. 1. Head to the Minecraft server webinterface of the server you wish to make your BungeeCord server and stop that server.
   2. Next, on the left under “Settings”, click on the “BungeeCord” option.
   3. Within the BungeeCord settings, check the box next to “BungeeCord active”.

1. Lastly, press “Save changes” and start your Minecraft server.

BungeeCord will now be installed on your Minecraft server and ready for setup!

How to Setup the BungeeCord Server

If you own a Nitrado BungeeCord server, we have some great news! After following the above steps, your BungeeCord server is automatically configured to your server’s IP address. With this, you can skip these steps and continue below to add your other servers to your BungeeCord server. While this is automatically set up, if an issue ever occurs and you need to do it yourself, you can follow these steps:

1. 1. To begin, go on your Minecraft server and stop it.
   2. Afterward, on the left under “Tools”, select “File Browser”.
   3. In your server files, enter the folder “BungeeCord” and click to edit the “config.yml” file.

1. 1. While in the config, first find the “ip_forward” setting and ensure that is set to true.
   2. Next, find the “host” option and ensure this is set to your server’s IP and port.

1. After ensuring those are set, press save and start your Minecraft BungeeCord server.

The first part of your BungeeCord network setup has been completed! You can now follow the steps below to add your other servers for players to join.

How to Add Minecraft Servers to your BungeeCord Configuration

1. 1. First, head to your server’s “File Browser”, enter the “BungeeCord” folder, and edit the “config.yml” file.
   2. Inside this file, find the “servers:” section. This is where your servers will be added.

1. 1. For this next step, we recommend copying the “lobby:” server section and pasting it like this for each server you plan to add to your network. In our example, we will be adding two servers.

1. 1. Next, edit each server listing to the correct name of that server and then set the “address” to that server’s IP address. Additionally, you can set each server’s “motd” or message of the day.

1. 1. After the server listings have been added, find the “priorities” option. You’ll need to add your servers to this list in the order you wish players to be sent if a server goes down.

1. Once that has been added, press “Save changes” and restart your Bungee server.
2. Next, open the Minecraft server webinterface for each of your other Minecraft servers.
3. On those servers, to the left click “File Browser” under “Tools”.
4. Inside the files of those servers, enter the “minecraftbukkit” folders. Then, find and edit the following two files:
   1. server.properties | In this file, edit the “online-mode” option and set it to “false”. Afterward, press “Save changes”.
   2. Spigot.yml | While in this file, edit the “bungeecord” setting. Change this to “true” and then press “Save changes”.
5. After changing those files/settings on all of the Minecraft servers you added, restart each of them.
6. You have now successfully added those servers to your BungeeCord server network!

Customizing your BungeeCord Server Network

With your BungeeCord server and network setup, there are some customizations you can make! This includes your BungeeCord server and Minecraft server. On the Minecraft servers, you can change them like normal by adding plugins, changing files, settings, and more. On the BungeeCord server though, there are a few more specific settings you can change. These options are found and edited in your BungeeCord config.yml:

• player_limit | A purely visual player count displayed next to your server when players add the IP to their Minecraft multiplayer section. This player count can be set to anything but does not represent how many players can join your server. That player amount is based on the player limits set on your joinable Minecraft servers.
• force_default_server | By setting this to true, players will be sent back to the lobby/default server every time they join the Bungee server network.
• forge_support | If you plan to use a Forge server on your BungeeCord network, you’ll need to use this option to ensure compatibility.

Adding Permissions and Admins to your BungeeCord Server

In the BungeeCord config.yml file, you can use Bungee permissions and groups to set permissions and admins. This section is only applicable for BungeeCord permissions, which you can find here:

• Bungeecord.command.alert – Players with this permission will be able to issue an alert to all players across your BungeeCord server network.
• Bungeecord.command.end – Shuts down the server.
• Bungeecord.command.find – Confirms whether a player is online and which server they’re connected to if so.
• Bungeecord.command.list – Shows a list of all players connected to your network.
• Bungeecord.command.reload – Performs a reload of your BungeeCord server configuration. This can lead to odd behavior and is not recommended.
• Bungeecord.command.ip – Provides the real IP address of a player connected to your server network.
• Bungeecord.command.send – Sends a player to a specific server on the network.
• Bungeecord.command.server – Allows a player to use the /server command.

Firstly, locate these sections in the BungeeCord config.yml to edit them:

You can now add specific Minecraft player usernames under “groups” and create their permissions above. Here is an example of us creating permissions under the name “tutorial” and then adding tutorial to our user “Nitrado”. This will give Nitrado all of the permissions under tutorial.

After making adjustments to the permissions and groups, press “Save changes”. Lastly, restart your BungeeCord server to apply those changes to your permissions. Those players will now have the BungeeCord permissions and commands that you set!

Common Issues During a BungeeCord Setup

BungeeCord involves many parts to be set up correctly and, if even one part isn’t, the whole BungeeCord network can fail to work. To find out what’s wrong, we’ll need to re-check the setup to ensure every setting is set correctly. Below, we’ll show you step-by-step what to check to fix your BungeeCord server and get your network up and running!

Check the Host and Linked Server Settings

With so many steps involved in creating your BungeeCord network, it can sometimes happen that the IP address does not copy and paste correctly. If the IP is incorrect for the host or any linked server, it will not work with the network. To resolve this, we recommend re-following the steps in the section “How to Setup the BungeeCord Server” and “How to Add Minecraft Servers to your BungeeCord Configuration” to ensure everything is set up correctly. Once it is, restart each server and you’ll be able to join your network!

Verify that your Other Minecraft Servers are Setup

When adding other servers to your Minecraft network, due to the extra steps these can be missed. We recommend verifying that your other Minecraft servers are set up properly. This includes checking the server.properties file’s online-mode option to ensure that is false and the spigot.yml file’s bungeecord setting to make sure that is true. Once those are set correctly, save and restart those servers. They’ll now be ready to join through your server network!

Make sure your Minecraft Server’s Versions are Compatible (ViaVersion)

For a BungeeCord server network to work at its best, every server should be compatible. If you have servers on different versions, they will often not work properly together. Thankfully, in some situations, this can be fixed by using a Minecraft plugin called ViaVersion and ViaBackwards. ViaVersion will make older version servers work for newer version Minecraft players and ViaBackwards will allow newer version servers to work for older version players. You can follow this guide to install the ViaVersion Minecraft plugin to your servers or the BungeeCord server to ensure compatibility between them!

Can’t Join Minecraft Servers Directly After Setup

Once a BungeeCord network is set up, you will no longer be able to join the playable servers directly. Instead, you’ll need to use the BuneeCord server IP to join your network and then switch servers with the /server command. You’ll then be able to join and play on your other servers!

Design your own BungeeCord Minecraft Network

Now that you know how to make a server network, you’re ready to unlock new possibilities! Whether you’re looking to create the largest Minecraft minigames network ever or a simple survival network consisting of servers of different versions. By bringing players together, you can then manage, enjoy, and share the network with others. With nearly anything being possible, what will you create inside your BungeeCord server network?

Rent your own Minecraft server!