Unlike the PC server world where there is an official and variety of unofficial solutions, the PE server world is a tad more limited. With very little effort you can enjoy a persistent server with support for plugins that breaks the Minecraft PE experience free from the portable devices that typically constrain it. As a result there are dozens and dozens of cool buildings scattered across all the devices that come and go from our home network, but these structures never get left behind for the next players.īy sticking a small Minecraft PE server somewhere on your network - a desktop commonly left on, a media server, or a Raspberry Pi - you can enjoy a persistent world that players can easily hop in and out of, and remains available for everyone at all times.
We were first inspired to investigate running a small private PE server after watching all the neighborhood kids get together for the umpteenth time to play Minecraft PE only to discover that the world they had spent the most time on was missing because the kid with the world wasn’t there that day. If you’ve spent any time playing Minecraft PE or have a gaggle of Minecraft PE players in your household, you know the primary frustration is similar to the PC experience: if player X isn’t active then all the work the other players have done on player X’s shared world is unavailable.
