Support the usage of rust based minecraft servers.

[Eveeifyeve]

A good feature to include for docker minecraft server is experimenting with rust based docker images such as Pumpkin and FerrumC (Soon supporting plugins) and Valence for building minecraft servers from the ground up and many more to come, But it would be cool if there is a place for all of these rust based docker images for experimenting and testing these new minecraft servers are written in rust (instead of the normal java), so this is where this issue comes in is a proposal for supporting rust based images (Such as the ones listed above) and to be able to run them using this image and to be able to containerise the servers this could be used with such kubnetetes and podman.

I will be opening a discussion here to discuss: #3262

But hopefully we can try out new servers that are rust based and hopefully get this out.
I will be offering to help to add the support for this.

Regards,
Eveeifyeve

[itzg]

I encourage you to go establish your own image that does all the things you described. This image is for Java edition Minecraft server types and ecosystem with initial and primary focus on official Mojang software. Case in point, I maintain a whole separate image for Bedrock edition

https://github.com/itzg/docker-minecraft-bedrock-server

I'd be glad to include a link to your image in https://docker-minecraft-server.readthedocs.io/en/latest/misc/related-projects/ when you have that ready.

I have a created a separate tool for some of the image startup mechanics, so perhaps you can leverage that for some of your image needs

https://github.com/itzg/mc-image-helper

[itzg]

Another building block to consider is

https://github.com/itzg/mc-server-runner

which takes care of launching the Minecraft process, handling stop signal from the container, and communicating using Rcon to gracefully stop the server. I would assume these Rust servers are similarly supporting RCON.

[Eveeifyeve]

I encourage you to go establish your own image that does all the things you described. This image is for Java edition Minecraft server types and ecosystem with initial and primary focus on official Mojang software. Case in point, I maintain a whole separate image for Bedrock edition

Would you be gladly specifying this repo is for java based mienecraft servers for minecraft java edition so the community doesn't get confused?

https://github.com/itzg/docker-minecraft-bedrock-server

I'd be glad to include a link to your image in https://docker-minecraft-server.readthedocs.io/en/latest/misc/related-projects/ when you have that ready.

Well I will get to work on an image repo I will link it here once it's ready.

I have a created a separate tool for some of the image startup mechanics, so perhaps you can leverage that for some of your image needs

https://github.com/itzg/mc-image-helper

also isn't there a repo for configuration wise as well? as most server require a configuration to be set.

[itzg]

Would you be gladly specifying this repo is for java based mienecraft servers for minecraft java edition so the community doesn't get confused?

Hasn't been a source of confusion before, but I'll add some clarifications.

also isn't there a repo for configuration wise as well? as most server require a configuration to be set.

mc-image-helper provides subcommands for managing configuration, such as server.properties.

[Eveeifyeve]

Another building block to consider is

https://github.com/itzg/mc-server-runner

which takes care of launching the Minecraft process, handling stop signal from the container, and communicating using Rcon to gracefully stop the server. I would assume these Rust servers are similarly supporting RCON.

Pumpkin supports it by default and Valance supports it using rcon-cli and Ferrum doesn't support it sadly but I will mention it in their docker issue.

[itzg]

Just wanted to note that I have now included the usage docs for all mc-image-helper subcommands now:

https://github.com/itzg/mc-image-helper?tab=readme-ov-file#usage