Migrated to the cloud: yes, it is running in a PC in the cloud with an external internet IP address.
I taught the players to set up phantom in audio calls, it was quick for some and a little bit slower to others, nothing that I couldn't manage supporting them. I am the only tech savvy in the group.
Well, you probably can manage to run the server on your ps4, but mind this: it will corrupt and you will completely loose the world file, meaning that you will need to save backups regularly so that you have a file to fall back to when that happens. That happened to me a lot in 1.14, crashes are supposed to be improved in 1.16, let me know what you find out afterwards?
I ran one of those 14/7 server in my PS4 for a few months, it was pain. The players couldn't get afar more than 2000 blocks that it would crash. There where frequent crashes and each time it crashed there was 50% of world corruption, so I had to dump a copy of the world twice a day to an external HD using PS4 menus. On the event of rollbacks players would get really frustrated. When the world reached 1GB in size things got even harder to maintain, crashes were more frequent and lag increased. That was when I gave up the PS4 as a server and migrated to the cloud.
Another down side of having a PS4 as server is that you cannot extract your world to host it somewhere else cos PS4 has encrypted file systems.
phantom is a software we run in our laptops, in the same wifi or LAN network the PS4 is connected to. This software will connect to a server in the internet and serve it to the PS4 or XBOX as a LAN game, then the PS4 or XBOX can connect to a server outside in the internet.
Hi dude. We run a dedicated bedrock server in the cloud, a true 24/7. We are a bunch of friends mostly focused on building, Not pros but ok at building, learning and having fun. Very trustworthy people, no grief or disrespect. U gotta use phantom to join, ping me on psn if interested: foobar-85
Finally we found a way to run a bedrock server for ps4 players that is pretty stable. We had zero rollbacks since the beginning of the server, and it is running for a few months already.
Just sharing with those that are interested in running 24/7 servers not in their PS4.
Previously we run a world for months in a ps4 always on, it was quite painful to keep it running (restarts when crashing), the ps4 didn't manage to let us explore beyond a 2000 block square, we had frequent rollbacks which was the most frustrating part for players, and to not risk completely loosing the world we had to backup multiple times a day the 1GB file of the world via the PS4 menus, which was more laborious and stressful than I was happy with.
The solution we use now is to run a Dedicated Bedrock Server in the cloud, there are services you can purchase online that offer those server with seamless setup, or if you are a tech person you can assemble your own server, which is what I did.
In order to players to join they have to use a PC running in the same network their PS4 running the phantom program that is a proxy from your LAN to the server, so that the PS4 connects to the server thinking it is a LAN game.
(phantom project page: https://github.com/jhead/phantom)
The main drawback is that you cannot export your worlds out of PS4 since it is encrypted with your PSN user keys. There are paid programs that are meant to de-encrypt the game saves for you, but I didn't test them.
In my solution I run a Digital Ocean instance with 4 shared CPUs in NY. The lag isn't great, it is ok until you have 4 or more players, or if you have a chunk loaded with a lot of villagers. I will test other cloud suppliers in search for the least lag.
2) Save the executable in a folder of your choice.
3) Open the Windows Prompt (click start and type CMD)
4) Inside the prompt, use the command "cd <folder where you saved the phantom-windows.exe file>", for example:
"cd Downloads" or "cd Desktop"
5) Now you have to execute the program and pass to it the server ip address and port, in instance:
phantom-windows.exe -server IP:PORT
(Check screenshot bellow)
The IP:PORT number are server dependent, please reach me in the PSN if you want to know the IP:PORT of my server.
~~~ Known Issues ~~~
Usually, the first time you try to connect to a Minecraft server in the LAN screen you may get "Unable to connect", it is a bug in phantom, if that happens just try again and it should work the second time. I get this problem both in PS4 and Mobile Bedrock.
If you are interested in hanging out with us in the server, make sure you can run the Phantom
program in your LAN and connect with me in the PSN: foobar-85 to get the server ip address and port.
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After I run a 24/7 server in my PS4 for months, I got tired of afking, maintaining, backing up, dealing with crashes and restricting players inside a 2000 blocks radius. Therefore I decided to step up.
I got a Bedrock Dedicated Server running in the cloud only for PS4 players that is in Creative for testing, the Survival world is to be created in about a week from now. We are running some load testing in the server to see how it reacts to a bunch of players building and loading and TNTing. Feel free to reach out to mess up in Creative until then.
Achievements enabled.
And I am applying MODS in the server, nothing OP, just small adjustments to get it more comfortable and closer to Java:
Mods are:
- One Person Sleep, if anyone sleeps the time pass for everyone in the server. No more phantoms.
- Anti Enderman Grief, so they stop messing up with our builds.
- No More Pumpkin Blur, cos it is too annoying to go to the end with that dark thing covering all the screen
- Java textures, so we can follow build tutorials on youtube and wood colors will not only match (OCD says thank you) but look nicer.
- New Sun and Moon textures, that I will rotate from time to time.
- My own tweaks:
- iron golem will drop way more iron, so that farms are profitable again (will be disabled when 1.16 is launched, cos iron golem spawn rate was fixed in 1.16)
- Ender dragon breath area of effect reduced, it was too hard to deal with the ender dragon due to bedrock lag
- Ender dragon may drop some extra thingies still in the End theme, specially with Looting III, nothing OP
- Wither boss: I reduced the withered effect duration to get closer to Java difficulty, Wither in Bedrock was way harder than Java.
Todo: I couldn't make the torch add-on to work yet, but the goal is to lighten around the player if touch is in hand.
Server Rules:
- This is a friendly server to build, raid, have fun with friends, whatever genre. No griefing and no disrespectful comments will be allowed.
- Mic is needed to introduce yourself and party with the group sometimes.
- You must get clearance to play from the other players and mostly from the server admins. This process can take some time. (Clearance is disabled at the moment while the server is in Creative mode)
- AFK is allowed You can use auto clicker too. It is ok to use Windows 10 Bedorck to AFK. (I use a modified PS4 remote login to autoclick.)
- Age restriction is 22+
How to Join:
In order to login and play you need to run the the phantom proxy in a laptop or PC in the same LAN that the PS4 is connected. With that running, the server will appear in "Friends" tab as a LAN server in your PS4 Minecraft.
Feel free to reach-me through PS4 network to ask for help.
You can also join the server from Windows 10 Bedrock, xbox or mobile apps, but later in Survival Windows 10 will not be allowed out of AFKing.
Server runs in NY, US.
Backups are enabled to happen daily, automatically.
And if the server crashes it auto starts again.
If you are interested in hanging out with us in the server, make sure you can run the Phantom program in your LAN and connect with me in the PSN: foobar-85 to get the server ip address and port.
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Feel free to contact me asking for help on how to join or install the proxy.
PSN foobar-85
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Server IP 35.196.250.133
Server Port 19132
(Non console clients will not log in successfully)
You will need to use a proxy like phantom (https://github.com/jhead/phantom) or MC LAN Proxy (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.luzenna.mineproxydroid&hl=en)
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Server IP 35.196.250.133
Server Port 19132
(Non console clients will not log in successfully)
You will need to use a proxy like phantom (https://github.com/jhead/phantom) or MC LAN Proxy (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.luzenna.mineproxydroid&hl=en)
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Server IP 35.196.250.133
Server Port 19132
(Non console clients will not log in successfully)
You will need to use a proxy like phantom (https://github.com/jhead/phantom) or MC LAN Proxy (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.luzenna.mineproxydroid&hl=en)
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Migrated to the cloud: yes, it is running in a PC in the cloud with an external internet IP address.
I taught the players to set up phantom in audio calls, it was quick for some and a little bit slower to others, nothing that I couldn't manage supporting them. I am the only tech savvy in the group.
Well, you probably can manage to run the server on your ps4, but mind this: it will corrupt and you will completely loose the world file, meaning that you will need to save backups regularly so that you have a file to fall back to when that happens. That happened to me a lot in 1.14, crashes are supposed to be improved in 1.16, let me know what you find out afterwards?
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I ran one of those 14/7 server in my PS4 for a few months, it was pain. The players couldn't get afar more than 2000 blocks that it would crash. There where frequent crashes and each time it crashed there was 50% of world corruption, so I had to dump a copy of the world twice a day to an external HD using PS4 menus. On the event of rollbacks players would get really frustrated. When the world reached 1GB in size things got even harder to maintain, crashes were more frequent and lag increased. That was when I gave up the PS4 as a server and migrated to the cloud.
Another down side of having a PS4 as server is that you cannot extract your world to host it somewhere else cos PS4 has encrypted file systems.
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35.196.250.133
19132
It is in beta, will reset after stress testing the server with more than 10 players
Use a proxy (phantom, etc.)
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phantom is a software we run in our laptops, in the same wifi or LAN network the PS4 is connected to. This software will connect to a server in the internet and serve it to the PS4 or XBOX as a LAN game, then the PS4 or XBOX can connect to a server outside in the internet.
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Hi dude. We run a dedicated bedrock server in the cloud, a true 24/7. We are a bunch of friends mostly focused on building, Not pros but ok at building, learning and having fun. Very trustworthy people, no grief or disrespect. U gotta use phantom to join, ping me on psn if interested: foobar-85
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Did you notice lag increase after the update? How playable or unplayable the game is for you? how many players?
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Finally we found a way to run a bedrock server for ps4 players that is pretty stable. We had zero rollbacks since the beginning of the server, and it is running for a few months already.
Just sharing with those that are interested in running 24/7 servers not in their PS4.
Previously we run a world for months in a ps4 always on, it was quite painful to keep it running (restarts when crashing), the ps4 didn't manage to let us explore beyond a 2000 block square, we had frequent rollbacks which was the most frustrating part for players, and to not risk completely loosing the world we had to backup multiple times a day the 1GB file of the world via the PS4 menus, which was more laborious and stressful than I was happy with.
The solution we use now is to run a Dedicated Bedrock Server in the cloud, there are services you can purchase online that offer those server with seamless setup, or if you are a tech person you can assemble your own server, which is what I did.
In order to players to join they have to use a PC running in the same network their PS4 running the phantom program that is a proxy from your LAN to the server, so that the PS4 connects to the server thinking it is a LAN game.
(phantom project page: https://github.com/jhead/phantom)
The main drawback is that you cannot export your worlds out of PS4 since it is encrypted with your PSN user keys. There are paid programs that are meant to de-encrypt the game saves for you, but I didn't test them.
In my solution I run a Digital Ocean instance with 4 shared CPUs in NY. The lag isn't great, it is ok until you have 4 or more players, or if you have a chunk loaded with a lot of villagers. I will test other cloud suppliers in search for the least lag.
Feel free to ask questions.
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Even easier, you can donwload the file and right click it, then Create Shortut.
Now right click the shortcut and select Properties.
Then in Target field, append, after phantom-windows.exe the "-server IP:PORT" where IP and PORT you need to get from me directly.
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Instructions how to join any dedicated server, including mine.
You will need:
1) A PC to leave Phtanom running.
(Phantom is the Minecraft server Proxy, it will make any chosen remote server to appear as a LAN server to PS4 Minecraft).
2) The server ip address and port you want to proxy.
Steps:
1) Download the phantom executable. Likely you use windows, so download the phantom-windows.exe from the project page here:
https://github.com/jhead/phantom/tree/v0.4.0
(optionally, direct download the executable from here: https://github.com/jhead/phantom/releases/download/v0.4.0/phantom-windows.exe)
2) Save the executable in a folder of your choice.
3) Open the Windows Prompt (click start and type CMD)
4) Inside the prompt, use the command "cd <folder where you saved the phantom-windows.exe file>", for example:
"cd Downloads" or "cd Desktop"
5) Now you have to execute the program and pass to it the server ip address and port, in instance:
phantom-windows.exe -server IP:PORT
(Check screenshot bellow)
The IP:PORT number are server dependent, please reach me in the PSN if you want to know the IP:PORT of my server.
~~~ Known Issues ~~~
Usually, the first time you try to connect to a Minecraft server in the LAN screen you may get "Unable to connect", it is a bug in phantom, if that happens just try again and it should work the second time. I get this problem both in PS4 and Mobile Bedrock.
Best Regards
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Hi all
TL;DR;
If you are interested in hanging out with us in the server, make sure you can run the Phantom
program in your LAN and connect with me in the PSN: foobar-85 to get the server ip address and port.
----
After I run a 24/7 server in my PS4 for months, I got tired of afking, maintaining, backing up, dealing with crashes and restricting players inside a 2000 blocks radius. Therefore I decided to step up.
I got a Bedrock Dedicated Server running in the cloud only for PS4 players that is in Creative for testing, the Survival world is to be created in about a week from now. We are running some load testing in the server to see how it reacts to a bunch of players building and loading and TNTing. Feel free to reach out to mess up in Creative until then.
Achievements enabled.
And I am applying MODS in the server, nothing OP, just small adjustments to get it more comfortable and closer to Java:
Mods are:
- One Person Sleep, if anyone sleeps the time pass for everyone in the server. No more phantoms.
- Anti Enderman Grief, so they stop messing up with our builds.
- No More Pumpkin Blur, cos it is too annoying to go to the end with that dark thing covering all the screen
- Java textures, so we can follow build tutorials on youtube and wood colors will not only match (OCD says thank you) but look nicer.
- New Sun and Moon textures, that I will rotate from time to time.
- My own tweaks:
- iron golem will drop way more iron, so that farms are profitable again (will be disabled when 1.16 is launched, cos iron golem spawn rate was fixed in 1.16)
- Ender dragon breath area of effect reduced, it was too hard to deal with the ender dragon due to bedrock lag
- Ender dragon may drop some extra thingies still in the End theme, specially with Looting III, nothing OP
- Wither boss: I reduced the withered effect duration to get closer to Java difficulty, Wither in Bedrock was way harder than Java.
Todo: I couldn't make the torch add-on to work yet, but the goal is to lighten around the player if touch is in hand.
Server Rules:
- This is a friendly server to build, raid, have fun with friends, whatever genre. No griefing and no disrespectful comments will be allowed.
- Mic is needed to introduce yourself and party with the group sometimes.
- You must get clearance to play from the other players and mostly from the server admins. This process can take some time. (Clearance is disabled at the moment while the server is in Creative mode)
- AFK is allowed
You can use auto clicker too. It is ok to use Windows 10 Bedorck to AFK. (I use a modified PS4 remote login to autoclick.)
- Age restriction is 22+
How to Join:
In order to login and play you need to run the the phantom proxy in a laptop or PC in the same LAN that the PS4 is connected. With that running, the server will appear in "Friends" tab as a LAN server in your PS4 Minecraft.
This is the phantom proxy download page: https://github.com/jhead/phantom/releases/ (click Assets to expand the download list)
Feel free to reach-me through PS4 network to ask for help.
You can also join the server from Windows 10 Bedrock, xbox or mobile apps, but later in Survival Windows 10 will not be allowed out of AFKing.
Server runs in NY, US.
Backups are enabled to happen daily, automatically.
And if the server crashes it auto starts again.
If you are interested in hanging out with us in the server, make sure you can run the Phantom program in your LAN and connect with me in the PSN: foobar-85 to get the server ip address and port.
Best regards
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Do you have a link with the source of the information that reveals Realms is being released in the 1.16 for PS4?