The Minecraft Generation

Re:The Minecraft Generation by joezydeco on Friday April 15, 2016 @04:27PM (#11507374)

I think you can do a lot on the free tier, my son only recently started spending a little to unlock some of the upgrades.

Personally I'd rather see subscriptions fund a server that's always up. I've researched running my own Minecraft server for the local kids, but it's really not worth it.

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Re:The Minecraft Generation by stephengillie on Saturday April 16, 2016 @02:39AM (#11509571)

That's a strange sentiment to hear, and somewhat disheartening. Minecraft servers are easy to set up, and can easily run in the background of an old server or PC.

I've been running one for over a year on my gaming PC and home internet connection.

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Re:The Minecraft Generation by gambiting on Saturday April 16, 2016 @08:04AM (#11510277)

I'm running a vanilla minecraft server for 4-6 people on the Raspberry Pi 3 and it runs beautifully, never had any problems. Pi2 was a bit slow at times, but the latest Pi3 has enough horsepower to support that many people without a problem. So really, setting up a minecraft server costs $30 for the Pi + $10 for the sd card. At 5W power usage it can stay on all the time.

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Re:The Minecraft Generation by ehnto on Friday April 15, 2016 @10:32PM (#11509020)

You can do okay on a DO VPN for say $20/month. I did this for a while but it was only me and a few friends, and when we wanted to use a modpack I moved the server an oldish computer in my house as it needed more grunt.

Calculating the power costs put it at about $30/month in electricity, ignoring all the time wasted getting it running.

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