My friend and I spent the last 3 months building PocketMC , a Windows application that tries to make self-hosting Minecraft servers as close to “click and play” as possible, kinda. We realized that running a Minecraft server locally is surprisingly complicated, more than we first thought. You need the right Java version, plus port forwarding or tunneling, then backups, updates, plugins/mods, logs, crashes, remote access... and honestly every server type has its own little quirks. So we dec...