Minecraft Server hosted on a cell phone.

I got bored one day and decided to see if it was possible. And it is. The phone I currently have is a Palm Pre Plus on VZW. It runs HP WebOS 2.1.0. It has an OMAP 3430 CPU (overclocked to 1ghz with Govnah), 512mb of RAM, 16gb of NAND storage, Wifi, swap expanded to 400mb, etc etc.

Originally I tried to get a Ubuntu/Debian chroot going and install java via GUI but I was having a lot of issues with screen space & xserver. After a great shower it dawned on me that java is on virtually everything, including devices with arm based processors. The OMAP 3430 is an ARMV7 CPU and java just so happens to make a binary for it...so, a bit of fiddling later, you can see what the outcome was.

It's pretty playable for 2 or 3 players, I have monsters/animals disabled for this run. Custom javaopts on launch to make better use of the memory and such. Once the map is generated out far enough it's much easier to play...the day/night transition is pretty rough with more than 1 player. I left the server on over night with 2 players connected and it was still there the next morning.

Not bad for a cell phone huh lol.

Music is by Chemical Brothers - http://www.youtube.com/user/ChemicalBrothersTV

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• mobile
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• iphone
• phones
• linux

[erxterroristz]

ok well i think my previous comment was harsh but if it were really possible to do this i would never see a point as you will never be able to have fun with mods etc because the phone cant cope with the stress of the softwaare :)

[ziggo0730]

@erxterroristz Yeah you speak the truth 110%. I was bored enough to see if this would work and it turns out it does. Since this video I haven't even messed with it lol. That's what I got actual server hardware for. Does the ipod touch have a terminal app?

[erxterroristz]

i did that today on my ipod touch using an ssh client to connect to my ubuntu server i call bullshit on this

[ziggo0730]

@erxterroristz I can also use SSH from my computer to my phone and do this. As you saw I did it in terminal right on the phone :)

[HamburgerExplosion]

local network seems out of the spirit of it. I'd love to see how shitily it performed over 3g

[ziggo0730]

@HamburgerExplosion I could arrange that via VPN. I'll attempt it tomorrow.

[ascii211]

U sir are win so 1000000000 diamonds to u!!!!

[RandomUploads1997]

So cool! please upload a tutorial!

[SuperDangergamer]

I don't get it

[MysticTeamMC]

I have a samsung gs2 is it posibel to do this

[GreiferCreepify]

leave that phone on all day and u got a 24/7 server...

[BraxCraft]

what app



[erxterroristz]

@ziggo0730 ye it does and its actually quite good its just called ssh terminal on the app store and it gives you realtime access to your ssh server and allows you to control it as if you were using putty :)