DORE
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Now in alpha · Windows

Your Minecraft server.
Without the server admin degree.

DORE handles the fiddly parts of hosting your own server — Java versions, server files, mods, backups and letting friends in — from one desktop app. Java and Bedrock, as many servers as your PC can carry. You pick a version. DORE does the rest.

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0.2.2-alpha Windows 10 or 11 · 64-bit 8.1 MB

Built with server owners,
not just for them.

DORE is in alpha and it is being shaped by a handful of people running it on their own machines. Every change in the last release came from watching someone use the one before it — including the person who followed DORE's own instructions and lost everything they had typed.

Become an alpha tester

  • Alpha testers

    Run new builds first and say what broke.

  • First-time hosts

    People who had never run a server before. The hardest and most useful feedback.

  • The Discord

    Where bugs, questions and half-formed feature ideas go.

The way it works today

You wanted a Minecraft server.
You got a systems administration course.

  • Java 8 or 17 or 21?
  • server.jar
  • -Xmx4G -Xms4G
  • eula=true
  • port forwarding
  • UnsupportedClassVersionError
  • server.properties
  • start.bat
  • Paper? Purpur? Fabric?
  • level-seed=
  • G1GC flags
  • %APPDATA%
  • Failed to bind to port
  • chunk generation
  • world backup?
  • JAVA_HOME
  • view-distance=10
  • crash-reports/

DORE handles the ugly parts.

  • It picks the Java

    DORE reads what the server itself says it needs, then finds it or installs it.

  • It writes the files

    Folders, jars, properties. Verified downloads, nothing overwritten.

  • It keeps a copy

    Backups that are checked before they count as backups.

How it works

Three steps. Then you're playing.

No downloads to find, no scripts to write, no folder to build by hand. DORE does the parts that need to be right, and asks you about the parts that are yours to decide.

  1. 1

    Choose your server

    Pick the Minecraft version and the server software. If you have no idea what those mean, DORE marks the one most servers run.

  2. 2

    DORE sets it up

    It works out which Java the server needs and gets it, downloads the server itself and checks the file is the file, then builds the folder.

  3. 3

    Press start

    Give your friends the address and play. Everything after this — the console, the settings, the backups — is in the same window.

New in 0.2.2

Mods, Bedrock, and more than one server.

Everything below is in the application today, described the way it behaves.

  • Simple and Advanced

    Two versions of every screen

    One switch at the top of the window. Simple shows the settings people actually came to change — difficulty, game mode, who is allowed in. Advanced shows all thirty-one, plus DORE's own reasoning and the raw values behind every conclusion it drew.

    • Simple is where everyone starts
    • Every screen opens with a sentence saying what it is for
    • Advanced adds detail. Every action stays available in both

  • Joining

    The address that actually works

    DORE checks what is true right now — whether the server is listening, what this machine's address is on your network, whether the port answers — and shows the address that works, with a line saying who it works for.

    • Anyone on your home network, or anyone anywhere, said in those words
    • Turn on Relay from that same box, in one click
    • Other ways to connect are one click away when you want them

  • DORE Relay

    Friends join from anywhere. Your router stays alone.

    Relay gives a server its own address on the internet and carries the traffic through it. Port forwarding stays untouched, and your home IP address stays private.

    • Choose your own name — survival.play.doremc.com — checked as you type
    • Bedrock works too, with an address and a port
    • Every server's Relay in one place, all running at once

    Relay needs an access code while the test is small. Ask for one on Discord — it is free and takes a minute.

  • Mods & plugins

    Install mods without touching a .jar file

    Search from inside DORE, click install, and it handles the rest — the right build for your Minecraft version, the dependencies it needs, and the folder they belong in.

    • Create a Fabric server in DORE, ready for mods
    • Shows only what works with your server software and version
    • Installs the dependencies for you, and names them first
    • Takes a backup before updating several things at once
    • Files you installed by hand stay exactly as they are

    Forge and NeoForge servers can be imported and managed. Creating one is still to come — they install by running their own installer.

  • Bedrock

    Servers for phones, consoles and tablets

    DORE sets up Minecraft's official Bedrock Dedicated Server alongside Java Edition — downloaded from Microsoft, configured, and managed in the same window.

    • Settings in plain language rather than a properties file
    • Updates keep your world, your settings and your allow list
    • Runs alongside your Java servers

    Java and Bedrock are separate games. Players on one join servers of the same edition, and Bedrock servers use their own add-ons rather than mods or plugins.

  • Multiple servers

    Run more than one at once

    Survival, creative, a modded world and a Bedrock server for the family — all running together, each with its own console, backups and settings.

    • DORE picks a free port for each one and says when it had to
    • One server crashing leaves the others running
    • Warns you when your servers together want more memory than the machine has

    How many run at once depends on your PC, mostly on how much memory it has.

What DORE does

One window, from empty folder to running server.

Everything below is in the application today. The panels are drawn to match what the program shows.

Creating

A server in about a minute

Name it, pick a version, choose how much memory it gets. DORE downloads the right server software, checks the file against its published checksum, and builds the folder correctly the first time.

  • Live version lists — new Minecraft releases appear on their own
  • Memory presets that know how much RAM this machine has
  • Refuses to write into a folder that already has something in it

Java

The Java problem, taken off your desk

Minecraft versions need particular versions of Java, and getting it wrong produces an error message that explains nothing. DORE reads what the server itself declares it needs, finds every Java already on the machine, and installs the right one if none of them fit.

  • Finds runtimes other launchers installed, in about 380ms
  • Refuses to run 1.8 on Java 21 rather than letting it fail at boot
  • If you leave to install Java, your setup is exactly where you left it when you come back — even if you close DORE

Java 21 is needed before this server can run

DORE created …\DORE Servers\Survival and put the server files in it. Nothing has been lost. Install the Java it needs and DORE will finish the setup.

Install Java 21 Start over

Java 21 installed by DORE

Temurin 21.0.12+8 · verified

Continue setting up Survival →

Your name, version, memory and world settings are as you left them.

Running it

Start, stop, watch, type

The console is right there, and so is everything you would otherwise be reading a file to find out: what it is doing to the processor, how much memory it is actually using, who is online, how big the world has become.

  • Real boot progress, driven by what the server prints — not a spinner
  • Five common startup failures explained in words, with the fix
  • Force stop kept separate from stop, because one saves your world and one ends it

Backups

Experiment. The world is safe.

A backup asks Minecraft to save and pause writing first, so what gets copied is a world and not a half-written one. Then DORE opens the archive and checks it before it counts as a backup at all.

  • A restore takes a verified snapshot of what is there before it replaces it
  • A backup that fails half way stays nameless, so you only ever see whole ones
  • Automatic backups on a schedule, with a limit on how many to keep

The server is running

That is fine. DORE will ask Minecraft to save the world and pause writing before it copies anything, then let it carry on.

Name this backup

Before installing plugins
Back up now

  • Before installing plugins

    Copying the world… Verified · 441 MB · just now

    Restore

  • Nightly

    Verified · 438 MB · yesterday 04:00

    Restore

  • Before 1.21.11

    Verified · 402 MB · 6 days ago

    Restore

  • It finds servers you already have

    Point DORE at a folder and it works out what is in there — which software, which Minecraft version, whether there is a world — and tells you how it knows. Nothing is moved or rewritten until you say so.

  • Every server looks like itself

    A landscape behind the whole window, chosen per server, so you can tell at a glance which one you are looking at. Daylight while it runs, night when it stops. Use a picture of your own world instead if you prefer.

    Six landscapes

  • Custom server icons

    Pick any picture. DORE takes the largest centred square, scales it to what Minecraft wants and keeps the transparency.

    64 × 64 · PNG

  • Scheduled restarts and backups

    Nightly restart at 4am, a backup every six hours, a command on a timer. Set once.

    Every 6 hours

  • Advanced mode, for when you want the detail

    How DORE identified a server, the full error chain behind a failure, the evidence for every conclusion it drew. DORE collects all of it all the time, and one switch at the top of the window decides how much of it reaches the screen.

    Simple / Advanced

Who it's for

Built for the person who has
never hosted a server before.

Playing Minecraft with your friends should not require you to learn what a heap is. It currently does. That is the thing DORE is trying to delete.

You don't need to know

  • JVM arguments
  • Java compatibility charts
  • which server jar is which
  • start.bat
  • the command line
  • server.properties syntax
  • how much heap is too much heap

You still get

  • The real console

    Every line the server prints, and a box to type commands into.

  • The actual files

    Browse, edit, upload and download anything in the server folder.

  • Thirty-one server settings

    As real controls with explanations, rather than a text file with a comment at the top. Simple shows the twelve people actually change; Advanced shows all of them.

  • Your own Java

    Point DORE at a runtime you chose. It will use it, and warn you when that version and your server disagree.

Simple by default. Powerful when you need it.

Trust

Your server
stays yours.

Nothing on this page is a security certification. It is a description of how the thing is built, and it is checkable.

  • It runs on your computer

    There is no DORE account, no server of ours in the middle, and nothing to sign up for. DORE talks to Mojang, PaperMC and Adoptium to fetch files, and to updates.doremc.com to see whether there is a new version.

  • Your worlds stay where they are

    DORE manages a folder on your machine. It does not upload it, and it never takes ownership of it — remove DORE from the list and nothing on disk is deleted.

  • Updating cannot eat your world

    Server data lives outside the folder DORE installs into, structurally, so an update or an uninstall has no way to reach it. A 462 MB server with three worlds has been through a real update with all 190 files byte-for-byte identical afterwards.

One thing worth knowing up front: the alpha installer is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen will show a warning when you run it. That is what an unsigned installer from a small project looks like, and telling you now seems better than letting you meet it alone.

What's next

DORE is just getting started.

Everything below is still to come, and this page says so plainly. It is here so you can see where DORE is going before you decide whether to come along.

  • Creating Forge and NeoForge servers

    DORE can import and manage them today. Creating one means running their own installer, and doing that properly takes care.

    Planned

  • Modpacks in one click

    Install a whole pack the way you install a single mod today, with the right Minecraft version and loader chosen for you.

    Planned

  • Checking on a server from your phone

    See whether it is up, who is on, and restart it, without going to the machine it runs on.

    Planned

  • A map of your world

    Because a server you can look at is a server people come back to.

    Exploring

The alpha

Help build the easiest way
to host Minecraft.

DORE is in alpha and we are looking for Minecraft players of every level — especially people who have never hosted their own server and have no intention of learning how. If DORE does not work for you, it does not work.

  • Get new builds before anyone else
  • Say what broke, and watch it get fixed
  • Ask for the feature you actually want
  • Talk to the people building it
Join the alpha Download DORE

DORE for Windows

Free while it is in alpha. One installer, about 8.1 MB.

Version
0.2.2-alpha
Released
21 August 2026
Download
8.1 MB
Requires
Windows 10 or 11 · 64-bit
Already have DORE?

Download and install this over the top, once. The automatic updater cannot make this particular jump, because 0.2.2 is signed with a new key. Your servers, worlds, backups and settings are untouched, and updates go back to being automatic afterwards.

Download DORE See what's new

Updates arrive in the application itself — DORE checks updates.doremc.com over TLS and verifies the signature on anything it downloads before it installs it.

Support

Stuck? Talk to a human.

You download it, and you still have somewhere to go with it. There are few enough of us that you get an actual answer from someone who built the thing.

  • Ask in Discord

    The fastest answer, usually from someone who hit the same thing last week.

    Open Discord

  • Report a bug

    DORE builds a diagnostic report for you — logs, versions and settings, with passwords and keys stripped out. You can read it before you send it.

    Report it

  • Ask for something

    The last release was almost entirely feature requests and complaints from three people.

    Request a feature

Your world.
Your server.
Your machine.

DORE handles the rest.

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0.2.2-alpha Windows 10 or 11 · 64-bit