Minecraft Server Scripts

This repository contains scripts used to manage my Paper Minecraft server hosted on a DigitalOcean droplet running Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS.

Scripts

• start_tmux_server.sh – Starts the server in a tmux session with auto-restart on crash
• backup.sh – Backs up the server world using Duplicity
• restore_paper.sh – Provides a dry-run restore menu for backups
• join_notifier.sh – Sends Discord notifications when players join
• monitor.sh – Logs resource usage for monitoring
• start.sh – Starts the paper *.jar server (placed in ~/paper_minecraft)
• graceful_restart.sh – Sends timed in-game restart warnings and gracefully stops the server
• plugin_versions.sh – Gets paper jar version and plugin versions compares them against the latest releases on Hangar to flag which plugins are up-to-date or need updates. (useful for upgrades)

Notes

• Server files (including start.sh) are stored in ~/paper_minecraft
• All other scripts are placed in /home directory (~)
• Backups are stored in ~/paper_backups_duplicity
• Logs are saved to server-restarts.log
• Designed for small servers (1–5 players) on 2 vCPU / 4GB RAM