mcherald - Announce minecraft servers to the local network

mcherald is a command-line program to announce minecraft servers to the local network.

Headless servers do not broadcast their presence on a local network, since the intention is that they should be added to a client's server list. There are occasionally times when one wants to host a server inside a home network, and mcherald can save a lot of configuration.

Usage

Invocation is simple: mcherald "My Minecraft Server:25565" More than one server can be specified on the command line.

This can be incorporated in a shell script to automatically run when the server runs, and to be terminated when the server exits.

 #!/bin/bash
 mcherald "My Minecraft Server:25565" &
 HERALD_PID=$!
 java -jar ./server.jar --nogui
 kill $HERALD_PID

Help and Support

If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to reach out here on Github. You can also contact me as dlowe on the libera.chat IRC network.