Set up your Minecraft server with AI

1. Open your server in the control panel.
2. On the Overview, find the Copilot card and click Build my server. You can also open the Copilot tab under Tools in the menu.
3. On the Copilot screen, pick the mode under the message box: Ask first, Accept edits or Auto. The mode decides which changes go through without your click.
4. Press Build my server under the message box. A window with six questions opens.
5. Answer the questions, read the instruction at the bottom and press Make this server.

Coming from the Overview, the message box already holds a starting line. You can send that line and describe the server in your own words, or use the button for the six questions.

Only the first question is required. Skip any other question and the panel leaves that part of the server as it is.

At the bottom of the window, This is what the Copilot gets shows your answers as one instruction. Make this server opens a new Copilot chat and starts the plan straight away, without a second Send click.

For every part of a server the panel keeps a short list of plugins from the Copilot's checked catalog, best first. When a plugin from the list is already on the server, it stays and nothing is added for that part. Otherwise the panel takes the first plugin that has a build for your Minecraft version and does not clash with a plugin on the server.

When the first plugin on a list does not fit your server, the next one takes its place: WorldEdit for FastAsyncWorldEdit, OneBlock or Skyllia for Iridium Skyblock, zEssentials for EssentialsX and EliteMobs for MythicMobs.

A plugin that two answers ask for is installed once. Custom world generation only shapes land that has not been generated yet, so you see it in new areas or after you reset your Minecraft world.

Most of these plugins need their own setup after the build: ranks and groups in LuckPerms, a claim tool for your players, or a Discord bot for DiscordSRV. Permissions with LuckPerms, stop griefing and link chat to Discord cover those next steps.

The panel reads server.properties first and only puts lines on the card that differ from the current value. When every answer matches what is set now, there is no settings card.

The card shows the old and new value of each line, such as Difficulty: Normal → Hard, before anything is written.

With Only in an arena, PvP stays on and WorldGuard is added, together with FastAsyncWorldEdit or WorldEdit to mark out the area. Once the arena is built, ask the Copilot to set up the region so PvP is off everywhere else.

PvP is also a game rule on Minecraft 1.21.11 and newer. After the build, check the PvP switch under Game rules in the World tab. Keep inventory and game rules explains that card.

A higher Max players value gives the server no extra memory. For 50 or 100 players, read how much RAM a Minecraft server needs.

The plan comes as up to three cards: Make a backup first, a card that edits server.properties, and one card that installs every plugin and restarts the server once at the end. When the plan has settings and no plugins, a Restart server card takes the place of the plugin card.

Ask first is the standard mode. The panel remembers the mode you pick in this browser.

Before it changes anything, the panel makes a backup named Before Build my server with the date and time. It appears in the Backups tab like any other backup.

• In Accept edits and Auto, the panel waits up to a minute for that backup before it goes on, because the plugin card restarts the server.
• When the backup fails, nothing else is applied by itself. The other cards stay in the chat for you to decide.
• When the backup is still running after a minute, the changes go ahead and the backup finishes on its own.
• Undo never deletes this backup.

Restore it when you want the whole server back to the state before the build, for example after you also changed files yourself. Back up and restore your server shows the steps.

The reply in the chat lists the plan in plain words: the plugins, the plugins that were already installed, the settings and anything left out. Every change can be taken back in three places:

• Undo on a card takes back that one change. On the plugin card it removes the plugins it installed and restarts the server.
• Undo everything from this message sits under Done on your server when the panel applied the cards by itself. It undoes them in reverse order.
• The Activity tab lists each change with the AI label and its own Undo button.

Undo on the settings card puts the old server.properties back without a restart. Restart the server afterwards so it reads the old values. See what changed on your server explains the Activity list in full.

The reply names every skipped part under Left out, with the reason. The common reasons:

For plugins on a Vanilla or modded server, switch it to Paper or Purpur first; Paper, Purpur or Spigot helps you choose. Mods go in through the panel, see install mods on a Minecraft server.

The six questions cover the common server types. For anything else, type the request in the Copilot message box, for example:

Set up a survival server for 15 friends with land claims, homes and a shop, difficulty hard and PvP off.

The Copilot reads your server, picks plugins from the same catalog and prepares cards in the mode you chose. The last field of the six questions works the same way: the panel makes the plan from the fixed answers, then the AI reads your note and can add cards for it.

Rules that should hold in every chat go under Server memory at the bottom of the conversation list, in the box House rules you write, one rule per line. An example is: always take a backup before you change a config file. These rules can only make the Copilot more careful, and only the server owner can change them.