Getting Started · Guide 1
Creating Your Minecraft Server
From sign-up to running in under 60 seconds. No credit card required for Campfire free tier.
Step 1: Choose Your Plan
Navigate to Create Server. Depending on your community size and modding ambitions:
- Campfire (Free): Ideal for testing or 2–4 friends on vanilla Minecraft. Joined automatically through our Discord community.
- Village (€0.85/GB): High-value NVMe tier for vanilla SMPs, Paper plugin servers, and light modpacks with 5–20 active players.
- Kingdom (€1.90/GB): Premium high-clock CPU cores with dedicated RAM for heavy packs like All The Mods 10, RLCraft, or Cobblemon.
Step 2: Choose Your Engine & Version
Chunkly supports Paper, Purpur, Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, and pure Vanilla across Minecraft releases from 1.7.10 up to 1.21.4:
- For plugin survival (SMP): Choose Paper or Purpur (recommended 1.21.4).
- For modern modpacks: Choose NeoForge (1.21+) or Fabric (1.20+).
- For classic modpacks (RLCraft, Tekkit): Choose Forge (1.12.2 or 1.7.10).
Step 3: Instant Automated Deployment
Click Deploy Server Now. Our automated system:
- Provisions an isolated Docker container with dedicated NVMe SSD storage in Frankfurt, Germany.
- Generates your unique vanity hostname:
yourname.chunkly.net. - Initializes the server jar, accepts Mojang EULA, and boots your instance within 30–60 seconds.
Next Step
Once deployed, learn how you and your friends connect to your server in the How Friends Join Guide →