Better MC 4

Better MC 4 for Forge on Minecraft 1.20.1: a Vanilla+ pack of over 300 mods for new biomes, structures, mobs and quality of life.

Created and started on Playkeeper 0.4.4 on 28 Sep 2026: ready in 39 seconds, with nothing failing to load.

What it installs

The modpack version the template pins, as it installed when we started it.

The same server by hand

With Docker and the itzg image Playkeeper runs servers in, sized the way Playkeeper sizes it and with the pinned versions. Open TCP 25565 in your provider's firewall.

# Better MC 4: Better MC [FORGE] - BMC4 v59 on Java 17, 8 GB in all
docker run -d --name better-mc-4 -p 25565:25565 \
  --memory 8G --memory-swap 8G \
  -e EULA=TRUE -e MEMORY=5386M -e USE_AIKAR_FLAGS=TRUE \
  -e TYPE=MODRINTH -e MODRINTH_MODPACK=better-mc-forge-bmc4 -e MODRINTH_VERSION=bdRIjRgs \
  -e MAX_PLAYERS=10 \
  -v better-mc-4-data:/data itzg/minecraft-server:java17

Your server is one command away.

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