How to Set Up a Velocity Server Network

A network lets players move between several servers without leaving: for example a lobby, a survival server and a minigames server. One server runs a proxy that players connect to, and it passes them on to the others.

On Beacon, the proxy is Velocity. (BungeeCord and Waterfall aren't available in Package Manager; Velocity replaces them and is faster.)

What you need

• One Beacon server for the proxy. It needs little memory.
• One Beacon server for each backend (lobby, survival, …), running Paper.

1. Set up the proxy

1. On the proxy server, open Package Manager, search for Velocity, and install it. Restart, then stop it once it has started.
2. In Files, open velocity.toml:
   • set player-info-forwarding-mode = "modern";
   • under [servers], list your backends by name with their addresses, for example lobby = "<lobby address>";
   • set try = ["lobby"] so players start in the lobby.
3. Open forwarding.secret and copy the secret.

2. Set up each backend

1. Stop the backend. In Files, open config/paper-global.yml.
2. Under proxies: → velocity:, set enabled: true, online-mode: true and secret: to the secret you copied.
3. In server.properties, set online-mode to false. The proxy now checks logins.
4. Start the backend.

3. Connect

Start the proxy. Players join the proxy's address (from its Network page). They move between servers with /server <name>.