Burgersim Posted February 10, 2020 Report Posted February 10, 2020 Hi there, I'm not sure this has been asked before, but would it actually be possible to run a small server on a Raspberry Pi? and if so, how would you best go about setting that up? By small, i mean about 5-10 players tops btw. Thanks in advance ^^
Polraudio Zion Posted February 24, 2020 Report Posted February 24, 2020 (edited) Just bought the game and i have a few different models of raspberry pi's laying around. Tried it with the Raspberry Pi 3 and its laggy and chunks take a very long time to load. I wouldn't recommend it on the Pi 3 mainly because of the limited RAM and slow CPU. Ill do more testing once i get my raspberry pi 4 4gb up and running and report back here. Edited February 24, 2020 by Polraudio Zion 1
Polraudio Zion Posted February 24, 2020 Report Posted February 24, 2020 Tested it with the Raspberry Pi 4 4GB version and it ran good for the most part but as soon as you get far from home and die the server just hangs and crashes. Prob because its having a hard time loading all those chunks at once at your spawn location. The chunk loading is fast enough to keep up with one person exploring but if 2 people are exploring it will most likely lag a lot. With the amount of ram it uses you would need at least the 2gb model. For my conclusion i wouldn't recommend running a server on a raspberry pi unless you all stick together at all times and don't die at all and also don't teleport anywhere. 1
Burgersim Posted February 24, 2020 Author Report Posted February 24, 2020 Thank you for testing it out, too bad though, would've liked to run the server "personally" at home, instead of using a host service and the raspberry pi seemed like a good idea for that at first glance. Is there any other "thing" someone would or could recommend to run the server "from home"?
Polraudio Zion Posted February 24, 2020 Report Posted February 24, 2020 If you have an older computer with at least 4gb of ram it might be able to run a server just fine as the server doesnt seem very demanding. Or you could just run it on your current computer.
Flakeinator Posted January 29, 2025 Report Posted January 29, 2025 Any update on this with a Raspberry Pi 5? I was curious since I have a few computers and Raspberry Pi devices hanging out and doing nothing at the moment. Thank you
Thorfinn Posted January 29, 2025 Report Posted January 29, 2025 Welcome to the forums, @Flakeinator. Since you have them sitting around, give them a shot. I wasn't impressed with the specs of any of the compatible PCIe to NVMe adapters I was seeing out there yet so I have been holding off. I'm guessing SSD is going to be essential -- microSD just ain't gonna cut it.
Flakeinator Posted January 29, 2025 Report Posted January 29, 2025 I have a Pi 4 and below. I was just curious if somebody tested out the newer version 5. But I do agree. MicroSD probably can't cut it in terms of speed.
Thorfinn Posted January 29, 2025 Report Posted January 29, 2025 Don't remember the name of the board right off-hand, but I was trying out a SBC that had onboard NVMe sockets. Two of them. And the board was stupid cheap, like $150. It's gone on the back burner. Too much else going on in my life ATM.
Dreroyce Posted January 31, 2025 Report Posted January 31, 2025 Does anyone know if they have any plans to update the ARM binary to 1.20.3? Or if they are actively developing for ARM at all?
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