Starting Crafty can change depending on your operating system and setup. However, these are the normal ways:

Windows

• After downloading and extracting crafty, double click run_crafty.bat in the folder.
• Crafty is required to run from the same folder as it’s libraries and other resources.
• This batch file will automatically CD into the correct directory (crafty) and run crafty.exe. If you wish, you can do this yourself via a command line interface.

Linux

We recommend you use some sort of terminal windowing service to allow Crafty to continue running even after closing your terminal session (for instance, when connected to your server over ssh). We’ve written instructions for two popular applications, screen and tmux.

Via Screen

1. From a terminal type screen -S crafty and press enter.
   • This will create a new screen session called crafty.
2. cd into the directory where crafty has been installed to, for example /var/opt/minecraft/crafty/crafty-web.
3. Now enter run_crafty.sh and press enter.
4. Crafty will now launch.
5. You can detach from this screen session by pressing CTRL+A+D
   • You can reattach to this screen (for instance to quit Crafty) by typing screen -R crafty.

Read more about screen here.

Via tmux

1. From a terminal window type tmux and press enter.
   • You will now see a terminal interface, but you are inside the tmux server.
2. cd into the directory where the crafty repository has been cloned to (example: /var/opt/minecraft/crafty/crafty-web).
3. Now run ./run_crafty.sh from Tmux.
4. Crafty will launch. Once Crafty is finished launching, you can then “detach” it by pressing CTRL+B and then CTRL+D to detach the window.
   • To re-attach the window type tmux attach 0.

You can read more about tmux here.

Auto-start Crafty on re/boot

Currently, Crafty must be started manually every time you turn on your machine. While we are working on making Crafty run as a service, you can follow the instructions listed here to make Crafty start automatically on boot.

macOS

cd /var/opt/minecraft/crafty/crafty-web
cd ..
source venv/bin/activate
cd /var/opt/minecraft/crafty-web
python crafty.py

Post 3.0

You can specify the -d option when running crafty.py, daemonizing it.

python crafty.py -d

There is also a service configuration file located under configs/, which can be utilized by passing the -c option when running crafty.py. This will disable the console in Crafty

python crafty.py -c configs/service_config.yml