Run in a container

Pre-built containers with mciwb and its dependencies already installed are available on Github Container Registry.

The container has the mciwb command as its entrypoint. It can connect to a Minecraft server with mciwb shell or mciwb run, but it cannot start or stop servers: mciwb start, stop, backup and restore need a host install of mciwb (see Installation) because they control podman and the server’s files.

Starting the container

To check the version in the container:

$ podman run --rm ghcr.io/gilesknap/mciwb:latest --version

To open an interactive shell connected to a server started on the same machine with mciwb start, use host networking so that localhost:20100 reaches the server, and -it for an interactive terminal:

$ podman run --rm -it --network host ghcr.io/gilesknap/mciwb:latest shell --player YOUR_NAME

To run a build script from the current folder:

$ podman run --rm --network host -v $(pwd):/work ghcr.io/gilesknap/mciwb:latest run /work/build.py

To get a released version, use a numbered release instead of latest.