usage-windows.md

Usage on Windows

Make sure you meet all requirements.

Download the lazymc-*-windows.exe Windows executable for your system from the latest release page.

Place the binary in your Minecraft server directory, and rename it to lazymc.exe.

Open a terminal, go to the server directory, and make sure you can execute it:

.\lazymc --help

When lazymc is ready, set up the configuration and start it up:

# In your Minecraft server directory:

# Generate lazymc configuration
.\lazymc config generate

# Edit configuration
# Set the correct server address, directory and start command
notepad lazymc.toml

# Start lazymc
.\lazymc start

Please see extras for recommendations and additional things to set up (e.g. how to fix incorrect client IPs and IP banning on your server).

After you've read through the extras, everything should now be ready to go! Connect with your Minecraft client to wake your server up!

Note: if you put lazymc in PATH, or if you install it through Cargo, you can invoke lazymc everywhere directly without the .\ prefix.