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Featured • October 15, 2024

We Explain How to Make a Modded Minecraft Server

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October 15, 2024 • 5 min read

We Explain How to Make a Modded Minecraft Server

Helpful Summary * Overview: In this guide, we explain how to create a modded Minecraft server, covering steps like selecting a hosting plan, installing a mod loader, and configuring server settings. * Why trust us: At Iceline Hosting, we’ve helped numerous Minecraft server owners run successful modded servers with our high-performance hosting solutions. * Why it matters: A modded Minecraft server allows for a unique and customizable gaming environment, offering enhanced features and a tailor

September 6, 2023 • 7 min read

How to Install Minecraft Mods with Curseforge

Before starting, we need to comprehend: What are Mods? 'Mod' refers to any official or unofficial add-on/modification in a game to expand the capabilities and even introduce many new concepts, varying from adding new game modes, skins, characters, weapons, and powers or even reworking the entire initial game to produce something new, did you know that Counter-Strike was originally developed as a mod for Half-Life? Mods provide players with the ability to tailor their experience and have always

September 3, 2023 • 6 min read

How to Install RLCraft on your Minecraft Server

RLCraft is a modpack for Minecraft featuring over 180 mods to provide a difficult survival RPG adventure by adding multiple structures and dungeons to explore, enemies with special capabilities, quests for you to follow, adjustments to vanilla behavior such as the need to use a tool for anything (even for breaking trees), to even adding new need bars for temperature and water, and skills to train with your actions. RLCraft mechanics can be hard to learn and adapt to at first for newcomers due t

September 1, 2023 • 5 min read

How to Install BetterMC on Your Minecraft Server

BetterMC is a Minecraft mod pack made of mods to essentially improve bugs and performance, while also adding new features on top of overhauling existing ones. Explore new dimensions and overhauled vanilla biomes, fight new bosses and discover new mobs, explore with your minimap and create way stones to teleport between locations, and transform your world using the thousands of new blocks added by the mods. BetterMC has a lot of content for avid explorers thanks to the immense amount of biomes i

August 30, 2023 • 6 min read

How to Install DawnCraft on Your Minecraft Server

DawnCraft is a Minecraft modpack of over 200 mods ranging from new mobs, powerful bosses and enemies to make you suffer, abilities and perks to help you survive, new structures and dungeons to keep you busy, and a questline for you to follow. Souls-like fans will be happy to know that DawnCraft also has a Souls-like combat system thanks to Epic Fight, along with a bunch of other mechanics and mods to totally transform your playthrough into a whole different game! Here are some of the mods that

August 27, 2023 • 4 min read

How to Install All The Mods 8 (ATM8) on Your Minecraft Server

All the Mods 8 (ATM8) is a Minecraft Modpack of over 200 mods, adding new mobs and overhauling existing ones (like biome creepers), tweaking inventory and crafting tables, adding automatization, roguelike-based dungeons, new dimensions, new powerful artifacts, and even types of magic! It originated back in 2016 with its first release for the Minecraft 1.10.2 version and multiple versions have come since then, updated for the latest Minecraft versions and with new mods to expand your playthrough

August 2, 2023 • 6 min read

How to Protect Your Minecraft Server From DDoS Attacks

Minecraft is a sandbox game and one of the highest-selling games in history, known worldwide, and a tool for players to express their creativity in amazing ways while also having fun. Minecraft can be enjoyed solo or in multiplayer with a server, which is more fun and expands the possibilities, as you can use plugins that add features that can vary from expanding the vanilla commands to inserting new minigames and worlds within the server, furthermore, you can even use Mods with Forge There are

January 4, 2023 • 4 min read

How to Install Minecraft Modpacks to Your Minecraft Server Manually

What are Minecraft Modpacks? Do you love playing Minecraft with your friends? Are you looking for a way to take your game to the next level? If so, then you may be interested in installing modpacks to your Minecraft server! Modpacks are collections of mods that work together to create a unique gameplay experience. In this article, we will show you how to install modpacks manually using different launchers. There are quite a few modpack launchers out there for installing Minecraft m

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November 29, 2022 • 8 min read

How to Install ProtectionStones to Your Minecraft Server

In Vanilla Minecraft Survival, there aren’t any options available for players to protect their houses or chests, resulting in a lot of bad-intentioned players taking advantage of them and griefing their houses, this may result in frustration for new players who may end up quitting your server, so a region management option is a must-have for players to enjoy their times in their Minecraft server, fortunately, there are quite a few region management plugins available for this, and one of those

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November 29, 2022 • 7 min read

How to Install Holographic Displays on Your Minecraft Server

Minecraft Servers can become quite hard to maintain and require a place to have a lot of information and instructions on how to play, this was previously made aware of by using things such as the signs or automated messages in the console, but a better alternative for this is a message fully modifiable in front of the thing in question, a message that can hold special information for each player and introduces them to the server, and that’s when Holographic Displays enter the scene. So

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November 29, 2022 • 7 min read

How to install WorldGuard to Your Minecraft Server

Reaching back to 2011 and before, WorldGuard, alongside WorldEdit, has become a necessity for any Minecraft server intended to host a decent number of players for all its features, a must-have tool if you’re intending to define regions in your server either for common access or to introduce players to the server So, what’s WorldGuard? WorldGuard is a Minecraft plugin that will allow us to define specific regions in our servers and protect them from other players, furthermore, World

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November 29, 2022 • 6 min read

How to Install WorldEdit to Your Minecraft Server

Building is something very characteristic of Minecraft, it develops creativity and allows players to create spectacular buildings, so it’s not uncommon to see huge and impressive structures with their own style and theme in multiple of the big servers available. As it happens with other activities, the building can easily become a burden and involve having to repeat tasks, placing block by block, which in the end translates to at least dozens of thousands of blocks in total and taking quite a

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November 29, 2022 • 7 min read

How to Monetize Your Minecraft Server with Tebex

The Minecraft multiplayer mode had a huge evolution with the passing of the years, the multiple tools created by its community have proved to be really useful and have brought endless and amazing possibilities, like huge Minecraft servers capable of hosting hundreds of players, or even server networks, which are made of multiple servers with their own modalities and plugin and linked to the main server. While this may be good for players, it supposes an extra spend for their creators and deve

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November 29, 2022 • 11 min read

How to Install LuckPerms to Your Minecraft Server

By default, Minecraft plugins come with their own set of permissions assigned to server operators, meaning that if a user wants to have access to them they must be set as an operator in the server’s console, risking and compromising the security of your Minecraft server, a huge risk to take more in consideration if you want to run a server in a high scale, where it’s really necessary to keep a group division between normal users, users with custom benefits (commonly called VIPs), and the mode

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November 29, 2022 • 10 min read

How to install EssentialsX to Your Minecraft Server

Minecraft servers, by default, don’t come with a huge variety of multiplayer-oriented commands, and most of them require more technical knowledge to make full use of them, essentially making hard cooperation on a big scale. Fortunately, some plugins expand this command list and EssentialsX might as well be the best one of them. EssentialsX is a Minecraft Plugin that adds a whole variety of commands useful and essential for your Minecraft server, arranging from moderation tools to ban/mut

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November 29, 2022 • 6 min read

How to install AuthMe Reloaded to Your Minecraft Server

New vulnerabilities are found daily In the times of modern informatics, which may compromise your server and its information, one of the reasons why you shouldn’t just have one way to log in. Providing a way to reauthenticate users before joining the server will be essential in the protection of their information and progress. There are multiple ways and plugins to do this, but in this case, we’ll talk about AuthMe Reloaded Working since years ago, AuthMe Reloaded has remained as one of

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November 29, 2022 • 5 min read

How to install Duels to Your Minecraft Server

Some of the most known modalities in the Minecraft servers are the PvP ones, allowing players to fight against each other using a selection of predefined kits of objects acting as classes, or even using their own inventory with the risk of losing it all, gaining points and dominating the scoreboards. There are multiple servers and plugins dedicated completely to this modality, but the duels can also be implemented inside a Survival server, or even any other, like Skyblock. That said, Due

April 18, 2022 • 6 min read

How to Install Valhelsia 3 to Your Minecraft Server

What is Valhelsia 3? If you’re a fan of Minecraft, then you’re going to love Valhelsia 3. Minecraft is a world that is full of adventure and mystery, and the Valhesia 3 modpack takes that to a whole new level. This modpack includes tons of new mods that will make your Minecraft experience more exciting than ever before. Whether you’re a seasoned veteran or just starting out, Valhesia 3 is sure to provide hours of entertainment. So what are you waiting for? Begin exploring and start your

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March 22, 2022 • 3 min read

The Best Armour Enchantments in Minecraft: How to Maximize Your Defence

In Minecraft, armour is essential for protecting yourself from enemy attacks. If you’re looking to maximise your defence, you need to know which enchantments are the best for each piece of armour. We’ll cover the best enchantments for other items in the game, e.g Tools however, In this blog post, we will discuss the top Minecraft armour enchantments and how to obtain them. Stay safe out there! If you are looking to start a Minecraft server, Iceline Hosting can help! We offer game hos

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January 28, 2022 • 3 min read

How to Install MC Eternal to Your Minecraft Server

What is MC Eternal? There’s a lot to explore in MC Eternal and there are plenty of unexpected turns to keep you interested. MC Eternal employs standard crafting techniques. Whilst these can be difficult to keep up with when playing some mod packs, the aim of MC Eternal is to feel somewhat led but also free to do whatever you want. The questing system, as well as the gold earned by completing missions, adds to the game’s depth and, in general, provides you with more to do! It’s i

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January 27, 2022 • 3 min read

How to Install Pixelmon to Your Minecraft Server

What is Pixelmon? No matter your age, at some point or another you will have heard of Pokemon. Pixelmon brings all of those fond memories you have of the franchise into one action-packed mod pack for you to enjoy within Minecraft. So, if you love both of those things, this might just be the perfect mod pack for you. Be sure to create a Minecraft server with Iceline Hosting and have access to a ton of great mod packs. How to Install Pixelmon Via the Mod Manager 1. Logi

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August 5, 2021 • 4 min read

How to Install SkyFactory 4 to Your Minecraft Server

What is SkyFactory 4? SkyFactory 4 is a mod pack created for Minecraft version 1.12.2. It includes well over 200 mods and will definitely keep you and your friends occupied for some time! SkyFactory 4 offers the ability for full automation, tech, magic, and many more activities with over 30 different world types. This mod might seem similar to Skyblock at first glance, but once you’ve given it a go for yourself, you’ll soon come to realize it’s completely unalike with the many unique

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August 19, 2020 • 1 min read

How to Change Your Minecraft Server Version

Why Would You Change Your Servers Version? Many of us like to be on the most up to date version of Minecraft, therefore when a new version comes out for Minecraft you want to update your server so that you can get all the latest updates! In other cases updating your Minecraft version can be helpful to those who want to install specific plugins that have not yet been released on newer builds. How to Change Your Minecraft Server Version? 1. Navigate to https://game.iceline.host/ and go to y

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August 19, 2020 • 1 min read

How to Change Your Minecraft World Seed

What Is a World Seed? A world seed contains a numerical value that is used as the basis for generating a world seed. The seed is then read by a complex algorithm to determine where blocks, biomes, monsters, animals should be in a Minecraft World. How to Change Your World Seed? 1. First backup your old world and then delete it from the server. We need to make a new world so that the seed changes take effect and don’t cause any issues. 2. Navigate to the root directory of your Minecraft Se

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August 17, 2020 • 1 min read

How to Install/Use Combatlogx to Your Minecraft Server

Why Use Combatlogx? CombatLogX is a plugin for Minecraft Servers that allows you to prevent combat logging within your server. What is combat logging? Combat logging is when a player engages in PVP (Player vs Player) and they try to leave the server before the fight has ended so that their inventory will be safe from the other player. With CombatLogX this is no longer a problem! It blocks you from typing in the chat, dropping items from your inventory, and if you do leave the server you will

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August 17, 2020 • 2 min read

How to Install/Config Worldguard on Your Minecraft Server

Why Use Worldguard? **You MUST download WorldEdit when using this plugin, the two are linked together and can be used together.** WorldGuard is a plugin for Minecraft Servers that allows you to create zones in your world that only permit mods or certain players from building within, blacklist certain items and blocks so they can’t be used, protects against many types of grief, and much more permissions that you can configure! How Do You Setup Worldguard? 1. Navigate to https://dev.bukki

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June 26, 2020 • 2 min read

How to Install Forge on Your Minecraft Server

What is Forge? Forge is a modding API and loader that is created to allow community-created game mods to be used easily with Minecraft: Java Edition. While playing vanilla Minecraft is great, it can get boring quite fast. One of the best parts of Minecraft is the ability to mod it further than the normal Vanilla gameplay on your MC server. Whether you are adding mods for custom mobs, new maps, or just a new type of game type, mods will always require Forge. A lot of the fun mod packs you

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June 26, 2020 • 2 min read

How to Install Spongeforge on Your Minecraft Server

What is Spongeforge? One of the most popular ways to play Minecraft is with mods. Minecraft Forge allows you to add mods to your MC server hosting server from Iceline, but what about plugins? Mods and plugins are not compatible with each other, so sadly, you are not able to have some of the classic Bukkit plugins you love such as PermissionsEx. However, with Spongeforge, you are able to add it to the mods folder of your Minecraft server and this will allow the installation of Sponge plug

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June 26, 2020 • 1 min read

How to Install Craftbukkit on Your Minecraft Server

What is Craftbukkit? Craftbukkit is a modification for Minecraft servers that allows the use of plugins. You may have seen servers in Minecraft that have unique features separate from Vanilla Minecraft. The reason they are able to have these is due to plugins. However, you are not able to have plugins on your MC server hosting server unless you have Craftbukkit or another fork such as Spigot or Paper. Craftbukkit also adds optimizations for Vanilla Minecraft including bug fixes, exploits

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June 26, 2020 • 1 min read

How to Install Spigot on Your Minecraft Server

What is Spigot? Spigot is a modified Minecraft server version that is based on CraftBukkit. This provides extra optimizations and performance advancements. Spigot also includes new configuration options and features. With all of this, it is still compatible with all Bukkit plugins and has a full website of its own plugins you can add. If you plan on having plugins on your Minecraft server, Spigot is the way to do so as it is far better than Craftbukkit. In this guide, we will be explaini

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June 26, 2020 • 1 min read

How to Install Paper on Your Minecraft Server

What is Paper? Paper is a highly optimized fork of the Spigot server version. This server version aims to fix gameplay mechanics in Minecraft along with improving performance. One of the benefits of this version is that it fixes numerous features and bugs that are in Spigot. When trying to fully optimize your Minecraft server, Paper is the recommended version. The PaperMC project has worked countless hours to ensure that your Minecraft server can run as smoothly as possible. Plugins from

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June 26, 2020 • 2 min read

How to Install Plugins on Your Minecraft Server

What is a Plugin? A plugin is a jar file that goes into your Minecraft Server in order to change certain aspects of the game. You will see this many times when you are accessing an MC server hosting server. Even simple abilities like /home, /spawn, //wand, and more are the works of plugins. If you want to have ranks on your Minecraft server, an economy, a shop, or other features, you will need plugins. You can only have plugins if your MC server hosting server is running either Bukkit, S

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June 26, 2020 • 2 min read

How to Reset Playerdata on Your Minecraft Server

What Is Player Data? Player data is any information that is stored about your players on your Minecraft server. The information is usually stored in a plugin folder or in the MC server hosting server’s world folder. What Are the Different Types of Player Data? The first type of player data is known as “world player data”. This is usually stored in the main world folder for your MC server hosting server and tracks health, inventory data, ender chests, and a few other NBT values

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June 26, 2020 • 1 min read

How to Upload a World to Your Minecraft Server

What Is a Minecraft World? If you are hosting a Minecraft Server, you may want to import a custom world. This is of course not a requirement as a new world is generated when you buy an MC server hosting server at Iceline Hosting. However, having a custom world could be a great thing as you can import it for the spawn, for a custom game mode, custom terrain, and much more. How to Upload a Minecraft World 1. Head to the Iceline Game Panel and stop the Minecraft server. 2. To th

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June 26, 2020 • 1 min read

How to Install a Resource Pack to Your Minecraft Server

What Is a Resource Pack? A resource pack is a Minecraft pack that can modify sounds, music, and textures on your MC server hosting server from Iceline Hosting. You can use them for many purposes such as setting the theme for an adventure map, showing a custom health bar, and much more. How to Install a Server Resource Pack 1. Download or create your preferred resource pack and ensure it’s 50MB or lower in size 2. Place the resource pack in a zip file and upload it to a file-s

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June 26, 2020 • 1 min read

How to Install Datapacks to Your Minecraft Server

What Is a Data Pack? In Minecraft, there are many different customizations you can add to enhance your game. One of the most popular is data packs, these can be used in Vanilla Minecraft simply by adding it to your world file. A data pack is a pack that allows you to customize the Minecraft experience by modifying loot tables, structures, recipes, tags, advancements, predicate and functions. How to Install a Data Pack 1. If the data pack specifies to extract the data pack, ext

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June 26, 2020 • 1 min read

How to Enable Command Blocks to Your Minecraft Server

What Is a Command Block? A command block is a block that can execute Minecraft commands. It is usually used in creative servers and not survival servers since you cannot use it in survival mode. Command blocks uses Redstone for most of its functions. Please be aware that command blocks can be potentially dangerous if enabled as they will allow players to run OP commands. How to Enable Command Blocks 1. Head to the game panel and stop your server. 2. Go to your server’s f

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June 26, 2020 • 1 min read

How to Add a Flat World to Your Minecraft Server

What Is a Flat World? In Minecraft, there are many different world types. These include Default, Large Biomes, Amplified, Buffet, and Flat. Having a flat world is commonly seen in servers that are running creative mode. Flat worlds are used to build new objects and buildings as there is no terrain to get in your way. These worlds spawn with no trees, mountains, or any Minecraft structures that you would see in a default world. How to Make Your Minecraft Server Have a Flat World

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June 26, 2020 • 1 min read

How to Upload an Icon to Your Minecraft Server

What Is a Server Icon? An icon is one cool way for you to represent your Minecraft Server to your players on the server list. Putting an icon on your server makes it looks better than other servers and of course, more unique. It would be used for your players to recognize your server better on the server list. How to Upload a Server Icon 1. Design an icon for your server which is sized 64×64 2. Head to the game panel and stop your server 3. Go to your server’s file managemen

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June 26, 2020 • 1 min read

How to Change the Game Mode on Your Minecraft Server

What Is a Minecraft Gamemode? In Minecraft, there are 5 different game modes that you can play. Each adding a whole new experience to your gameplay. For your Minecraft Server, you can choose a default game mode that all players will be set to upon joining. These game modes can include Survival, Creative, Adventure, Spectator, and Hardcore. While most of these can be changed in game, Hardcore mode must be set only through files as this is more of a gametype. With each of these having its

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June 26, 2020 • 1 min read

How to Change Your Server Title on Your Minecraft Server

What Is a Server Title? When choosing a Minecraft Server to join, the first thing you will find is the server title. Many of these can be colorful and include both your username, the amount of players, some of the server game modes, and much more. This title on the server is called the MOTD, Message of the Day. This can be changed to have all the features that you have seen in other Minecraft Servers. In this tutorial, we will be explaining how you can set a MOTD. It is recommended

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June 26, 2020 • 1 min read

How to Ban a Player on Your Minecraft Server

What Is a Ban? A ban is a way for you and your Minecraft Server operators to prevent unwanted players from joining. Minecraft includes two commands to ban a player, “/ban” and “/ban-ip”. The first is used to ban the player’s account, and one is used to ban both the account and his IP. Minecraft also includes two commands to unban a player, “/paradon” and “/paradon-ip”. The first is used to unban a player who was banned by the “/ban” command and the second is for a player that was banned

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June 26, 2020 • 1 min read

How to Whitelist a Player on Your Minecraft Server

What Is a Whitelist? Having a whitelist on your server is essentially a system that allows you to choose who can and cannot join your server. If you want to have a private Minecraft server for just friends or family, a whitelist is just the way to do so. This is the ultimate built-in protection against griefers or hackers and it is very easy to set up as there are no plugins required for it. In this tutorial, we will be explaining how you can set up a whitelist on your Minecraft Server.

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June 26, 2020 • 2 min read

What is a Minecraft Server Operator?

What is a Server Operator? In a Minecraft Server, there are a variety of different commands you can use to perform in-game actions. Some of these include /tp, /gamemode, /time, and more. While there are many commands in Minecraft, not all of them are accessible to normal players on the server. In order for you or others to be able to access these commands, you will need to be a server operator. Being opped will allow you to use all commands and essentially give you every permission on th