Start new Minecraft server: $ sudo systemctl start minecraft@survival
Check for a status: sudo systemctl status minecraft@survival
● minecraft@survival.service
- Minecraft Server: survival
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/minecraft@.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Mon 2018-01-22 12:46:37 AEDT; 16s ago
Main PID: 7751 (screen)
Tasks: 21 (limit: 4915)
CGroup: /system.slice/system-minecraft.slice/minecraft@survival.service
├─7751 /usr/bin/SCREEN -DmS mc-survival /usr/bin/java -Xmx2G -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui
└─7757 /usr/bin/java -Xmx2G -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui
Jan 22 12:46:37 ubuntu systemd[1]: Started Minecraft Server: survival.
Ultimately test if the default minecraft port is open:
$ nmap -p 25565 localhost
Starting Nmap 7.60 ( https://nmap.org )
Nmap scan report for localhost (127.0.0.1)
Host is up (0.00054s latency).
Other addresses for localhost (not scanned): ::1
PORT STATE SERVICE
25565/tcp open minecraft
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.06 seconds