BungeeCord

What Is It?

BungeeCord (created by the SpigotMC team) is a proxy designed to seamlessly connect multiple Minecraft servers together, allowing players to navigate between them without leaving the game.

BungeeCord is compatible with Spigot, Purpur, PaperMC, and any Spigot fork. It will NOT function on Forge/Fabric or vanilla servers.

What is it useful for?

BungeeCord is very beneficial for server administrators that want to separate their server’s activities (such as minigames, creative, survival, and so on). BungeeCord is utilized and trusted by notable servers such as Hypixel, Mineplex, HiveMC, and much more.

Preparing The Fallback Servers

What Are Fallback Servers?

Fallback servers are all servers connected to your BungeeCord proxy.

1. Go to the Game Panel.
2. Click on any of your fallback servers.
3. Setup your server if it has not been setup before.
4. Go to the file manager.
5. Locate and open server.properties.
6. Scroll down and set online-mode to false.
7. Return to the file manager.
8. Locate and open spigot.yml.
9. Set bungeecord to true.
10. Restart the server.

Repeat the steps above for all your fallback servers.

Creating And Configuring The Proxy

1. Go to the Game Panel.
2. Click on any server you want.
3. Start the server.
4. Type 1 and click on enter.
5. Type 9 and click on enter.
6. Type latest. Wait around 30 seconds, your server should be on.

Do not rely on the server status at the top left of the page, it does not indicate the status of proxy servers correctly.

1. Click on “Stop”, then click “Kill”.
2. Click on “File Manager” at the top of the page.
3. Locate config.yml and open it.
4. Scroll down to host: 0.0.0.0:25577 and change the numbers after : to your BungeeCord’s port. You can find your port in the “Network” tab at the top of the page.
5. Scroll down to priorities:- lobby, change lobby to your default fallback server’s name (case sensitive). This will be the default server that users will be redirected to when they join your BungeeCord server.
6. Scroll down and set IP_forward to true.
7. Scroll down to servers: and use the template below:

  server-name:
    motd: '&1Just another BungeeCord - Forced Host'
    address: server-IP:PORT
    restricted: false

Change server-name to the fallback server’s name (case sensitive). Change server-IP:PORT to the fallback server’s IP and port.

Restricted does not allow players to join the server unless they have the bungeecord.server.SERVERNAME permission.

If you have multiple fallback servers, duplicate the code above and paste it under your first server.

It should look like this:

1. Save the file and start your server.

You can view all BungeeCord configuration options here.

BungeeCord Commands

You can find a list of BungeeCord commands here.

In Game

Players, including you (of course), can easily teleport to the other servers on your network by using the /server command in-game. Then they can use their cursor to click on the server they want to go to. They can also do /server <name>, like /server lobby.

This command requires the bungeecord.command.server permission which is granted to everyone by default.