How to Install Custom Modpacks on Minecraft Servers!

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[Music] hey everyone and welcome back to another bisect hosting server tutorial in today's tutorial we are going to go over how to install a custom modpack onto your minecraft server before we get into it if you are a bisect hosting customer and you own either a premium minecraft server or the advanced support add-on this can actually be done for you automatically through our support ticket system the first thing that you're going to need to do is to log into your bisect hosting control panel and stop your server now you can head to the official modpack website today we're going to be using better minecraft which is running on forge 1.16.5 on the official web page for whatever mod pack you are using there should be somewhere to download server files once downloaded this will give you a zip file which will give you all the files that you need to have this modpack run on your server once the file is downloaded go ahead and double click it from here there are various different things that you could be seeing depending on the mod pack you could either have a very short and small file size that only has a few things like these files here or you will have all of the files already shown and you should have the minecraft jar as well as the forge jar if you had a small download size and you just see a few files go ahead and extract those once it's extracted run the start server dot bat you'll see a bunch of different random code and you'll see the command prompt come up and run through all of this don't worry just follow any on-screen prompts until it has finished downloading the file that you're going to be looking for is the minecraft underscore server dot jar file as well as a forge jar that says forge dash the minecraft version dash the forge version if in the previous step you didn't already have to extract this file go ahead and do so now now open the extracted folder and you should still see that forge dash minecraft version dash forge version you're going to right click that rename it and call it custom dot jar once that's finished go ahead and select all the files in this folder right click send to compressed folder this will allow us to compress these file sizes so we don't have to upload a huge file when we go to put it onto our server now we are ready to upload this to our server if the file size is less than 500 megabytes you can use our file manager and upload it directly through the bisect hosting website if your file is larger than 500 megabytes you will have to use an ftp we will be using an ftp in today's example and i'll be using the winscp ftp if you don't already know how to set up an ftp for your server i will leave a link in the description that goes over how to download and use an ftp for your server on the left side is my win scp with my server loaded and on the right is my file explorer where you can see my zipped file we are just going to drag the zipped file from the file explorer over to the winscp which will directly upload it to our server once this is finished we can return to our bisect hosting panel once here we're going to go to the file manager and in here you should see your zipped file go ahead and right click it and choose unarchive once the file is unarchived we can set up our server to be running that custom.jar file to allow our custom modpack to run to do that we're going to go back to our home page and here where it says open jar menu we click that scroll down where it shows custom and choose the custom dot jar and save once it's saved you will see this screen that has three options delete current files keep current files and create instance instances are really powerful tools that you can learn more about by watching this video here i'm not going to go more into detail in this video all you're going to do now is just keep current files and choose the keep current files button and now you can just start your server if you have any other questions check out our knowledge base bisect hosting.com kb or you can submit a support ticket on our website if this guide was helpful make sure you hit that like button subscribe for more content like this comment down below what guide you would like to see next and we'll see you around [Music]
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Channel: BisectHosting
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Keywords: minecraft, minecraft tutorial, bisect hosting, bisecthosting, hosting minecraft, hosting server minecraft, how to host server minecraft, custom modpacks minecraft, how to install custom modpacks minecraft, modpack server tutorial
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Length: 4min 42sec (282 seconds)
Published: Tue May 10 2022
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