mcman

Powerful Minecraft Server Manager CLI. Manage your servers using git - easily install jars (server, plugins & mods); manage config files, worlds, entire networks, and more.

[!NOTE] A rewrite which fixes a ton of flaws is underway, join discussion on the discord to be updated of the progress. It can be found under the v2 branch

Getting Started

• Join the discord for support!
• 📋 Some examples can be found under examples/
• 🚀 Here's BlanketCon '23 imported to mcman - you can even see its test workflow

Submit a PR or open an issue if you have a mcman-server repository that we can add here!

Features

• 📜 Everything in one simple server.toml file!
• 📥 Downloads everything automatically for you
• 🔁 Always keep up to date with new builds and releases
• 🔒 Does size & hash checks even for cached files for integrity
• :octocat: Fully git-compatible
• 📦 Import from or export to mrpacks or packwiz packs
• 📚 Supports way too many sources, some are:
• Modrinth, CurseRinth, Spigot, Hangar, Github Releases, Jenkins, Maven
• Not here? You can use custom urls.
• 🏷️ Easily render a list of plugins/mods or the server info to markdown files
• ✨ Managing a network? Use network.toml to manage servers' ports, have shared variables, config files, plugins and mods.
• 🌐 Keep worlds as worlds/*.zip to version control them, or set it to be downloaded from somewhere!
• ☔ Develop your servers with hot reloading using mcman dev
• 🔁 Test your servers using CI (mcman run --test)
• 🔗 mclo.gs integration
• 🐳 Supports Docker, out of the box
• ✔️ No third-party hosts (metadata/mirrors)
• ⚙️ Better configuration files with config/!
• Allows you to use config variables inside your config files
• Use environment variables for secrets

[!IMPORTANT] While mcman can manage your server, its not designed to run it. You should use something else, for example, docker or pterodactyl to run your servers.

Reviews

"faster than gradle builds" - kuylar

"makes even oracle linux usable" - PureComedi

"it's ok" - null

"I'm technically a contributor" - Trash Panda

Changelog

Changelogs can be see in detail here