Server Installation

MSI doesn’t come in the typical copyright-violating “server pack”; you need to install it yourself. You’ll need a bit of command line knowledge to set things up, but it’s not that hard, I promise.

  1. Download the appropriate mrpack-installer beta version for your platform. Every desktop PC is amd64; make sure not to download the arm64 version accidentally.

    Extract the mrpack-installer binary inside to the directory you will run your server from.

  2. Download the server-only pack from the Modrinth page. It can be found under the files on a specific version’s page. Copy the mrpack file to your server directory.

  3. In a command-line window, run the following:

# For windows, this might be something like "C:\Users\MyUser\Documents\Medium-Sized-Industrialisation".
# Obviously, change it to your actual server directory.
$ cd <path to your server directory>

# For windows. Replace the server-only file with the file name of the actual file you
# downloaded.
$ .\\mrpack-install <the server-only file>
# For linux.
$ chmod +x ./mrpack-install
$ ./mrpack-install <the server-only file>

  1. This will output the downloaded mods, configs, and tweaker scripts into a subdirectory mc.

    Open that directory (in your command line or graphical file explorer) and run the NeoForge installer to create a server jar. Select the MC directory in the installer, and ignore the warning about files already existing.

  2. Run the start.sh or start.bat files to boot your server.