Raspberry Pi 3 & Minecraft

Admin (4/1/2017 3:17 PM)

Recently the HDD in my Linux box died, taking with it my demo WSS (WebSocketServices) plugin for Minecraft.  So instead of purchasing a new HDD, I decided to try running Spigot on my old Model 1B Raspberry Pi to see how well it works.  Its purpose is not to run Minecraft, but to demo the WSS plugin.  Surprisingly the Model 1B was capable of running Spigot, but frequently crashed due to the limited memory of 512MiB.

Seeing that the Raspberry Pi is capable of running a Spigot server well, I purchased the Model 3B, which has 1GiB of memory and set it up.  It definitely runs much better than the Model 1B, and I plan to continue using it rather than using my old Linux box, which unfortunately ran hot and loud in my living room and was solely for running the WSS plugin, as well as other experimental dev work in Linux.  It'll be nice to have a quiet, discrete Raspberry Pi now.