This script was made to make updating minecraft servers easier and a lot more efficient (in my opinion)

The only thing you need to do once the script is downloaded and running in a cron schedule is just update a file in the minecraft server and it will automatically do the rest for you.

All of these are required.

• NCFTP
• LFTP
• Minecraft Remote Tool Kit
• A Minecraft server running Multicraft panel
• ftp access to Minecraft server
• A Minecraft server - (Referal to fadehost)

Not required

• mcrcon -- Highly reconmended, telneting into the Remote Tool Kit in a script is ineficient.

Rebooting works because Multicraft thinks the game has crashed when you run /stop from rcon while you have the Tool Kit wrapper I'm not sure why, but without that then this script does not work.

What we do is upload alternating names of the server.jar, and replace that name inside of the Remote Tool Kit's config to point to that one then reboot the server and it will switch right over.

To automate updates, run the Latest or Released jar script of your choice (Read Bonus) a couple minutes before running McUpdate.sh For example, I have LatestMC_JAR.sh running 2 minutes before McUpdate.sh, and have McUpdate.sh run once every 10 minutes or so via crontab.

LatestMC_JAR.sh will grab the download link for the latest server.jar, you can choose to download the jar file or have it save the url to the txt file that McUpdate.sh looks for when it checks for updates.

ReleasedMC_JAR.sh will grab the download link for the latest Full-Release version of server.jar, you can choose to download the jar file or save the url to the txt file that McUpdate.sh looks for when it checks for updates.

• if running on a Raspberry Pi you have to compile mcrcon!
• LatestMC_JAR.sh will download ANY latest server.jar, INCLUDING Snapshtos and Pre-releases!
• Automation depends on your setup, You'll need to use one of the LatestMC/ReleasedMC scripts along side this script for now.

• Add pre-update RCON command, along with a kick all command (/kick @a), and with a user-defined delay before updating
• Add feature to enable/disable HTTP Request once server is updated (Bonus of this; Can link to discord!)
• Ability to grab the latest full-release of server.jar -- Done, see Bonus in README
• Incorperate both update grabbing scripts into McUpdate.sh (Bonus; having the option to check for updates using a file in ftp OR from mojang's json manifest file directly)
• Eventually just use lftp for uploading/downloading
• Add a timeout for the while loop so that the server doesn't keep getting pinged.
• Hopefully add a workaround to restart the server via Telnet as a sepearate executeed script for minecraft versions 18w48a+ -- No Longer Needed. Mojang corrected the bug.
• Create a version of this updater for servers that do not use Minecraft Remote toolkit, as the concept should be the same only I hadn't put any thought to it.

• 18w47a until 19w04b the server will hang at saving the worlds and does not fully shutdown, this causes Remote toolkit to never know if the server really stopped or not. If you plan on using these versions with this script, it will be partially broken and will need to .forcestopwrapper See here

• For the entirety of stopwrapper.sh: I do not take ownership or claim credit to the creation of the telnet automation. Usually I make it clear what portions of scripts or commands I used from other people, but in this case I begun using the script before I made the habbit to note down the sources. So the source of where I got that script from is lost.