Running Minecraft w/ FabricMC + Lithium + Phosphor on a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB
When I first heard about the the Raspberry Pi 4 8GB, I knew I had to self host a Minecraft server. Well, last week I finally received my back-ordered rpi and got to work.
My standard Minecraft setup was either playing the client in single-player mode, with no mods, or paying for a realm just so I could easily play with other people. When figuring out what server I wanted to run, my main objective was to run as close to vanilla as possible. After digging around it seemed to me that the most popular option was papermc. However, I also heard about Lithium, which is a mod within the FabricMC framework. After reading some posts on AdminCraft, I chose to run FabricMC with the Lithium and Phosphor mods. Why? They have lots of performance benefits with the objective of not modifying core Minecraft game mechanics.
Setup
Hardware
- Rasbperry Pi 4 Basic Kit 8GB
- 32GB MicroSD card (I want to switch to an SSD)
Software
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ARM 64
- Ansible for deployment automation
Example
Check out my github repo to see an example of the setup I have, so you can run it yourself!