Recommend a server for 30+ middle schoolers

I've recently decided to give ComputerCraft a try for my classroom, and I'm in need of a server. I'm not a Minecraft/computerCraft expert, so If I'm going about this incorrectly then please aim me in the correct direction. We are using java/windows 10 edition of the game.

Needs/Goals:
- Learn programming and circuitry related skills
- PvE - A zoned PvP area would be nice, but not needed.
- Quests/NPCs
- Marketplace
- Low number of people on the server
- Students are able to claim land so they can't be looted/etc
- Chat filters out profanity. If that's possible?

I'll continue looking, but feel free to post any links or guides that would help out a teacher in using this in their classroom.

Your best bet would probably be to work with your school's IT to start up a small server on-premises using MinecraftEdu/ComputerCraftEdu. Other users may have useful suggestions for ways to accomplish the other requirements/desired attributes of the server, but the only way to be certain that it will be available and clean enough to prevent getting yourself/students into trouble due to factors beyond your control is to host it yourself.

Some of your questions can be answered with other mods if that is an alternative.

- For ciruits: the logic can be built with normal redstone, for more advanced ciruits there are mods like projectRed that ads one block versions of and/or/not gates etc
https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/project-red-integration

- Popular mods for quests is hqm and bqm. Quests are created in-game and the players can work on them alone or together in parties.
https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/hardcore-questing-mode
https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/better-questing

- For claiming I like the solution of FTB Utilities, it also has features for teaming up and allowing other players to build in your area. Admins have full access in all claims.
https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/ftb-utilities

Profanity filters are usually pretty bad, people just get around them with various misspellings until you end up filtering way too much. It would be better to simply have punishments awarded as if they were swearing in the classroom.

Seems like a very interesting project and I, and probably some other people in the community, am interested at updates.

You are very likely going to need the Forge MC Server Software (The installer comes with an option to unpack the server, to do it via the command line:

java -jar forge-installer.jar --install-server

).

If you want to solve some of your requirements using plugins(Claims and marketplace seem like stuff plugins would be good for), you should add Sponge (Setup Guide).

If you give this information to your school's IT they should be able to assist you in getting the server up and running.

Edit: Should you decide to use a MC Version newer than 1.8 you need to check out these unofficial builds of CC

For the mods I agree that you should add ProjectRed for circuitry.
For claims and a marketplace I would recommend you to check out a few Sponge plugins.

Good luck with your project, hope it gets a few students interested in programming.

IT isn't going to do anything.

My backup PC at school has an i-5 3470 - 16GB ram - SSD. My main one has the same setup, but with an i5-6500. If possible, i'll try to setup a local one tomorrow and see how it goes.

I have an i5 7400 (only 1 gen ahead) and I could easily run a Minecraft server alongside siege without lag on either so I'm pretty sure you'll be fine, my real question is what are the students going to be playing on? I don't know about your district but mine doesn't allow us to install anything on the computers and even then the only computers that I think would be able to run minecraft are our engineering laptops all the other ones lag horribly on everything (Running autodesk on them is torture)

roger109z, on 23 February 2018 - 03:23 AM said:

I have an i5 7400 (only 1 gen ahead) and I could easily run a Minecraft server alongside siege without lag on either so I'm pretty sure you'll be fine, my real question is what are the students going to be playing on? I don't know about your district but mine doesn't allow us to install anything on the computers and even then the only computers that I think would be able to run minecraft are our engineering laptops all the other ones lag horribly on everything (Running autodesk on them is torture)

All of my student computers are i3-3220 or newer, 4GB or more, and some have SSDs. I already have privileges to install, change settings, and etc. We've already tried public servers as a class just to make sure our computers would handle it, and they all worked without lag.

Luca_S, on 19 February 2018 - 08:19 PM said:

Seems like a very interesting project and I, and probably some other people in the community, am interested at updates.

You are very likely going to need the Forge MC Server Software (The installer comes with an option to unpack the server, to do it via the command line:

java -jar forge-installer.jar --install-server

).

If you want to solve some of your requirements using plugins(Claims and marketplace seem like stuff plugins would be good for), you should add Sponge (Setup Guide).

If you give this information to your school's IT they should be able to assist you in getting the server up and running.

Edit: Should you decide to use a MC Version newer than 1.8 you need to check out these unofficial builds of CC

For the mods I agree that you should add ProjectRed for circuitry.
For claims and a marketplace I would recommend you to check out a few Sponge plugins.

Good luck with your project, hope it gets a few students interested in programming.

Thank you. I set up a forge server for a couple of days, but it would crash 2-3 times in a 50 minute period.

Jemartin390, on 02 March 2018 - 10:57 PM said:

Thank you. I set up a forge server for a couple of days, but it would crash 2-3 times in a 50 minute period.

Do you still have the crash logs lying around? I've been doing some work on getting ComputerCraft as stable as possible lately, so might be able to have a look.

addition to above, I would personally recommend using CC:tweaked rather than the latest CC you can find on here it's developed by SquidDev and since Dan doesn't actively develop computercraft anymore I would say it's more stable, it also has a few random additions that I personally can't live without(Full block modems)
https://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/cc-tweaked