A simple, self-hosted Minecraft server panel

Your Minecraft server,
in a browser tab.

Look after your friends’ server without touching a terminal. Bring a cheap VPS or the old laptop under the desk; Blocky handles start, stop, mods, players, files, and backups.

Try the live demo Install Blocky
Open source · AGPL-3.0Built on Docker and itzg/minecraft-server
Survival Realm · overviewOpen this in the demo ↗
Blocky server overview with server health, resource use, online players, and management tabs

Install

Your install commands, built for you.

Pick how you'll run Blocky and the commands update as you go. Copy them into a terminal on the machine that will host your servers.

1 Docker
2 How you'll open the panel
3 Blocky Cloud
More options
Release
SFTP for server files
Your commands
Turn on JavaScript to build your install commands, or follow the install notes on GitHub.

Then

    Server software
    • Paper
    • Purpur
    • Vanilla
    • Fabric
    • Quilt
    • Forge
    • NeoForge

    Everything the server needs, in one tab.

    Create the server, install a loader, edit a file, or check its health without leaving Blocky. Your SSH window can stay closed.

    Start and stop servers

    Choose a loader, version, memory limit, and port, then start, stop, or restart the server. Health, players, CPU, memory, and disk use stay visible.

    Keep the console close

    Read live output, send commands, and manage online players from the browser. There is no SSH window to keep open beside it.

    Install from Modrinth

    Find plugins for Paper and Purpur or mods for Fabric, Quilt, Forge, and NeoForge. Blocky checks versions and dependencies before installing.

    Edit the world files

    Browse, upload, edit, and download files inside a server’s data directory. Each world keeps its own storage.

    Share access by role

    Invite admins, operators, and viewers. Roles keep settings, files, and server controls with the people who need them.

    Update with a rollback

    Blocky takes a safety backup before updates and settings changes, checks health afterward, and rolls back when something fails.

    World protection

    Creepers hate this one trick.

    It’s called a backup. Blocky keeps incremental, deduplicated snapshots you can restore or download. Set a schedule, choose retention, and check backup health from the panel.

    How Blocky backups work

    Local snapshots

    Every snapshot is independently restorable. New backups reuse unchanged data, so history takes less space.

    Offsite copies

    Encrypt copies before they leave the machine. Use S3-compatible storage, another disk, SFTP, or Obsidian backups on Blocky Cloud: the block a creeper can’t blow up.

    World recovery

    Restore servers and worlds on a new machine from an offsite backup using your passphrase.

    Why I built this

    Blocky started as a dad project: a small Minecraft server for my kids and their friends. For a long time, keeping it running meant me at a terminal over SSH, restarting after a crash, hunting for the right mod version, copying the world folder before I touched anything, and hoping the restart came back clean.

    That should take a minute, not an evening. Blocky is the panel I built so a server can be started, updated, and backed up from a browser tab, and so a bad update rolls back on its own instead of turning into a late-night fix.

    The panels I tried first were built for hosting companies: nodes, allocations, nests, eggs, a database to stand up before you can start a single server. I only wanted one or two. So Blocky stays simple on purpose. One container, one password, and the screen you land on is the server you came to look at.

    VictorMaintainer · runs it on a Minisforum NAB6 Lite, i5-12600H, 32 GB

    Before you start a world.

    The short answers are here. The README covers configuration, security, and storage details.

    Is Blocky a Minecraft hosting provider?

    No. Blocky is a self-hosted panel. You run it on your own Linux machine with Docker and choose the hardware, network, and storage.

    Can I try it before installing anything?

    Yes. The demo at demo.blockypanel.com runs the real panel in demo mode with a sample server, so you can click through the console, backups, files, and settings. It never touches a Docker host.

    Which Minecraft server types does it support?

    Paper, Purpur, Vanilla, Fabric, Quilt, Forge, and NeoForge. Each server has its own persistent data directory.

    Can I restore a backup?

    Yes. You can restore an incremental snapshot or download it as a portable archive. Blocky also supports scheduled backups and encrypted offsite copies.

    Is it free to use?

    Blocky Panel is open-source software under the AGPL-3.0 license. You provide the server and any optional storage services.

    Why not Pterodactyl or Crafty?

    They are good panels, built to run many servers for many people. Blocky is for someone with one or two. There are no nodes, allocations, or eggs to set up, and no separate database to run. Start one container, set a password, and you are looking at your server.