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I Want a 1.16.5 server but my server boots up with 1.15.2

Posted on January 19, 2021

Gaming

Ubuntu 20.04

Java

By maximumthorson

Connected Tutorial(This question is a follow-up to this tutorial):

How To Create a Minecraft Server on Ubuntu 20.04

I 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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KFSys

January 20, 2021

Hi @maximumthorson

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

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-minecraft-server-on-ubuntu-20-04#step-2-—-downloading-the-latest-version-of-minecraft

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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