User:ExtremeHeat11/sandbox/Setting up a server/Getting started

Getting started
To get started, you want to first install the latest server jar or exe depending on your operating system from https://minecraft.net/download. You must use the  version if you are on Mac OS X or Linux. If you are on Windows, you have a choice to use either the jar or the exe files.

For the purposes of this tutorial, we will refer to the files as  or , but you can replace this with the filename you are using. For example, if your server file is named   and an instruction says to use a command such as   you would instead use.

You can then start setting up your server.

Jump to: Windows instructions &mdash; Mac OSX instructions &mdash; Linux instructions.