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It should be noted that these suggestion presume default setting in server.conf - i.e., a Draw Distance no higher than 10, and is also based on a new world; the bigger the world gets, especially if there's advanced Redstone circuitry at work, the requirements - especially the RAM, or in the case of lots of Redstone, the CPU - increase significantly (to the point where a major world with several camps, redstone machinery, grinders, etcetera can more than double the requirements).
Windows
User Grade
- 1 player ~ 50-100 MB of Ram
Win NT/2K/XP
- Note that these requirements are for the server only you will need to allocate more resources to the OS!
| Requirements | Players | CPU | RAM | HDD | WAN Up | WAN Down | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum | 1-2 | Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 2000+ and better |
1 GB | 2 GB empty space (5GB if you are doing frequent backups) |
3 Mbit/s | 2 Mbit/s | (Minecraft Servers can barely, but still run on a 1Mbit/s Upload connection.) |
| Acceptable | 3-5 | Intel Core-Based CPUs or AMD K8-Based CPUs and better |
3 GB | 10 GB empty space | 6 Mbit/s | 3 Mbit/s | |
| Recommended | 5-7 | Intel Core-Based CPUs or AMD K8-Based CPUs at 3.4GHz or higher |
5 GB | 18 GB empty space | 8 Mbit/s | 4 Mbit/s | |
| Good | 7-9 | Intel Nehalem-Based CPUs or AMD K10-Based CPUs and better |
6 GB | 25 GB empty space | 14 Mbit/s | 7 Mbit/s | |
| Optimal | 9+ | Intel Nehalem-Based CPUs or AMD K10-Based CPUs at 3.6GHz or higher |
8 GB | 35 GB empty space | 30 Mbit/s | 15 Mbit/s | A Mechanical Disk or a SLC SSD with high Read/Write speeds is recommended. |
Win Vista/7/8
- Note that these requirements are for the server only you will need to allocate more resources to the OS!
| Requirements | Players | CPU | RAM | HDD | WAN Up | WAN Down | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum | 1-3 | Intel Core-Based CPUs or AMD K8-Based CPUs and better |
2 GB | 10 GB empty space | 6 Mbit/s | 3 Mbit/s | |
| Recommended | 3-5 | Intel Core-Based CPUs or AMD K8-Based CPUs and better |
3 GB | 18 GB empty space | 8 Mbit/s | 4 Mbit/s | |
| Good | 5-10 | Intel Nehalem-Based CPUs or AMD K10-Based CPUs and better |
5 GB | 25 GB empty space | 14 Mbit/s | 7 Mbit/s | |
| Optimal | 10+ | Intel Nehalem-Based CPUs or AMD K10-Based CPUs at 3.6GHz or higher |
8 GB | 35 GB empty space | 30 Mbit/s | 15 Mbit/s | A Mechanical Disk or a SLC SSD with high Read/Write speeds is recommended. |
Server Grade
Win 2003
- Note that these requirements are for the server only you will need to allocate more resources to the OS!
| Requirements | Players | CPU | RAM | HDD | WAN Up | WAN Down | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum | 1-2 | Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 2000+ and better |
1 GB | 2 GB empty space (5GB if you are doing frequent backups) |
3 Mbit/s | 2 Mbit/s | (Minecraft Servers can barely, but still run on a 1Mbit/s Upload connection.) |
| Recommended | 2-4 | Intel Core-Based CPUs or AMD K8-Based CPUs and better |
3 GB | 18 GB empty space | 8 Mbit/s | 4 Mbit/s | |
| Optimal | 4+ | Intel Nehalem-Based CPUs or AMD K10-Based CPUs and better |
6 GB | 35 GB empty space | 30 Mbit/s | 15 Mbit/s | A Mechanical Disk or a SLC SSD with high Read/Write speeds is recommended. |
Win 2008
- Note that these requirements are for the server only you will need to allocate more resources to the OS!
| Requirements | Players | CPU | RAM | HDD | WAN Up | WAN Down | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum | 1-2 | Intel Core-Based CPUs or AMD K8-Based CPUs and better |
2 GB | 2 GB empty space (5GB if you are doing frequent backups) |
3 Mbit/s | 2 Mbit/s | (Minecraft Servers can barely, but still run on a 1Mbit/s Upload connection.) |
| Recommended | 2-5 | Intel Nehalem-Based CPUs or AMD K10-Based CPUs and better |
4 GB | 18 GB empty space | 8 Mbit/s | 4 Mbit/s | |
| Optimal | 6+ | Intel Nehalem-Based CPUs or AMD K10-Based CPUs at 3.6GHZ or higher |
8 GB | 35 GB empty space | 30 Mbit/s | 15 Mbit/s | A Mechanical Disk or a SLC SSD with high Read/Write speeds is recommended. |
Unix (Linux, BSD, Mac OSX)
- These requirements apply to the Native Java for Unix, and not windows emulation using Wine or Mono.
GUI
- Note that these requirements are for the server only you will need to allocate more resources to the OS!
| Requirements | Players | CPU | RAM | HDD | WAN Up | WAN Down | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum | 1-2 | Intel Pentium 4 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1600+ or PowerPC 750 1000 MHz/G4 1 GHz and better |
512 MB | 2 GB empty space (5GB if you are doing frequent backups) |
3 Mbit/s | 2 Mbit/s | (Minecraft Servers can barely run, but still run on a 1Mbit/s Upload connection.) |
| Acceptable | 2-4 | Intel Pentium 4 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 2000+ or G4/Frescale 7xxx 1.8 GHz and better |
2 GB | 8 GB empty space | 6 Mbit/s | 3 Mbit/s | |
| Recommended | 4-5 | Intel Pentium 4 3.6 GHz or AMD Phenom 3600+ G4 2.0 GHz or IBM 970 and better |
3 GB | 16 GB empty space | 8 Mbit/s | 4 Mbit/s | |
| Good | 5-7 | Intel Core-Based CPUs or AMD K8-Based CPUs IBM 970 2.0 GHz and better |
5 GB | 25 GB empty space | 14 Mbit/s | 7 Mbit/s | |
| Optimal | 7+ | Intel Core-Based CPUs or AMD K8-Based CPUs at 3.6GHz or higher IBM 970 2.0 GHz and better |
6 GB | 35 GB empty space | 30 Mbit/s | 15 Mbit/s | A Mechanical Disk or a SLC SSD with high Read/Write speeds is recommended. |
Console
- Note that these requirements are for the server only you will need to allocate more resources to the OS!
| Requirements | Players | CPU | RAM | HDD | WAN Up | WAN Down | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum | 1-3 | Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or AMD Athlon-Based CPUs and better | 512 MB | 2 GB empty space (5GB if you are doing frequent backups) |
3 Mbit/s | 2 Mbit/s | (Minecraft Servers can barely, but still run on a 1Mbit/s Upload connection. The server will miss ticks with this hardware-configuration.) |
| Acceptable | 3-5 | Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 2600+ and better |
1 GB | 8 GB empty space | 6 Mbit/s | 3 Mbit/s | |
| Recommended | 5-8 | Intel Core-Based CPUs or AMD K8-Based CPUs and better |
3 GB | 16 GB empty space | 8 Mbit/s | 4 Mbit/s | |
| Good | 8-12 | Intel Core-Based CPUs or AMD K8-Based CPUs at 3.0GHz or higher |
5 GB | 25 GB empty space | 14 Mbit/s | 7 Mbit/s | |
| Optimal | 12+ | Intel Nehalem-Based CPUs or AMD K10-Based CPUs and better |
6 GB | 35 GB empty space | 30 Mbit/s | 15 Mbit/s | A Mechanical Disk or a SLC SSD with high Read/Write speeds is recommended. |