So it turns out, running a full Minecraft server on a Pi doesn’t lead to a great user experience. Even with only two players at times the lag caused disconnections or blocks to disappear.
Our next attempt at a Minecraft server turned to Pocket Edition, and an open source solution called PocketMine, written in our favorite server side language PHP 🙂
Im not going to write a guide as its a one line install, just follow the instructions on PocketMines website and you shouldnt have any issues.
Tags: MCPE, minecraft, mojang, php, Pi, Pocket Edition, RaspberryPi, server