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How To Create a Minecraft Server on Ubuntu 20.04I was following the tutorial but everytime I tried to replace the 1.15.2 with 1.16.5 (the latest version) it kept on booting up a 1.15.2 server. How do I fix this?
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If you’ve followed the tutorial exactly you’ll have 1,15,2 as that’s the version used there. Having said that, if you turn you attention to
You need to download the current version of the Minecraft server. You can do this by navigating to Minecraft’s Website and copying the link that says Download minecraft_server.X.X.X.jar, where the X’s are the latest version of the server.
You can now use wget and the copied link to download the server:
wget https://launcher.mojang.com/v1/objects/1b557e7b033b583cd9f66746b7a9ab1ec1673ced/server.jar
Once done, do to the following
mv server.jar minecraft_server.1.16.5.jar
And from there you can continue using the same steps in the tutorial and it will install the specific version you are looking for.
Regards, KFSys
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