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Accept the Minecraft EULA on your server

A new Minecraft server stops until eula.txt says eula=true. Press Accept EULA in the Console, or change the line yourself in Files. Both steps here.

Updated , checked on Minecraft Java 26.3

A Java server will not run until the Minecraft End User License Agreement (EULA) is accepted, which means eula.txt contains eula=true. On first start the server writes that file with eula=false and shuts down. In the ArthOS panel, the Console then asks you to accept; press Accept EULA and the server starts by itself.

What eula.txt is

The file sits in the server’s main folder. A fresh one looks like this:

#By changing the setting below to TRUE you are indicating your agreement to our EULA (https://aka.ms/MinecraftEULA).
#Generation time
eula=false

By changing it to true you say you have read and accept the Minecraft EULA. The server will not start without it, and files such as the world are not created until it is accepted. You only do this once per server.

In the ArthOS panel

  1. Open the server and go to Console. Press Start.
  2. The server will not run until you agree, and a dialog titled Minecraft EULA Agreement opens: “The Minecraft server requires you to accept the Minecraft End User License Agreement before it can start.”
  3. Read the Minecraft EULA.
  4. Press Accept EULA (1). The panel sets eula=true in eula.txt and shows “EULA accepted successfully.” The server then starts by itself. Cancel closes the dialog and leaves the file as it was.
The Minecraft EULA Agreement dialog in the Console, with Accept EULA and Cancel
  1. Press Accept EULA

The button only shows if your role may create files.

By hand

  1. Stop the server.
  2. Open Files and open eula.txt.
  3. Change eula=false to eula=true and save.
  4. Start the server.

If you host it yourself, run java -jar server.jar --nogui once so the file is created, edit it in any text editor, then run the same command again.

If it does not work

  • No dialog appeared. It only opens while the server is not running, right after the Console prints the EULA message. Start the server again and watch the Console, or use the By hand steps.
  • The server still stops. Open eula.txt again. The line must be exactly eula=true, in lower case, with no # in front.
  • There is no eula.txt. The server creates it on its first start. Start it once, then edit it.
  • The Accept EULA button is missing. Your role cannot create files. Ask the server owner to accept it.

More on the game: Minecraft servers.

Sources: minecraft.wiki: Server.jar, minecraft.wiki: Setting up a Java Edition server, minecraft.net: Eula

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