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THE ROAD AHEAD

A bigger world.
The same purpose.

Better tools for the server on your own PC.
Built around the people who make it theirs.

The living roadmap

SHIPPED

Good ideas.
Real tools.

These capabilities are already part of SpawnLoft. Open a chapter for the details.

Read the release journal
01

Reliability

A little less looking over your shoulder.

Optional crash auto-restart with a crash-loop stop. Scheduled restarts warn players first, and Discord webhooks report the events nobody is watching for. Snapshot verification reads archives back and checks their coverage.

02

Plugin manager

Find the right addition. Keep it up to date.

Search Modrinth and Hangar together, with compatibility filtering or version checks, hash-based update checks, and one-click updates that take a snapshot first. Enable and disable plugins in place. SpawnLoft manages what it installed; hand-dropped custom and premium plugins are left alone.

03

Server updates

Move forward with a way back.

Move to the newest Paper build in one click, keeping the old jar. Crossing Minecraft versions follows a separate, confirmed, snapshot-first path because worlds can migrate one way.

04

Modded servers

For worlds with their own rules.

Fabric and NeoForge are first-class loaders with a Mods tab. Install whole modpacks from Modrinth. Pack updates may only touch files the old pack owned, preserving your other additions.

05

Worlds

Bring a map. Make it home.

See every world with the active one named. Import a downloaded map from a zip or folder, export one, switch which world runs, and delete with its scope made clear. Snapshots include the active world set. A backup mirror copies every snapshot to a second location as it is taken.

06

Log intelligence

Less searching. A clearer next step.

Recognize common failure shapes and show a suggested fix where the failure surfaces: ports already taken, EULA acceptance, wrong Java, insufficient memory or disk, missing dependencies, duplicate plugins, corrupt worlds, ticking crashes, watchdog stalls, and missing jars.

07

Linux

The same control room on one more kind of machine.

The same panel and command line on Linux, as a .deb and an .rpm for x64 and arm64. Schedules and automatic backups through systemd, live performance from /proc, managed MySQL on x64 and Redis on both, and automatic updates. For a server with no screen, spawnloft-cli is the command line alone on its own runtime.

08

AI assistants

Ask in plain words. Approve each change.

Let Claude Desktop, Claude Code or another MCP app you choose check status, read the console, explain a crash, take backups, and update plugins and Paper. No account, no open port, nothing sent unless that app asks. Passwords never leave, player IPs are hidden, and anything that cannot be undone is off unless you allow it.

09

Console export

Get the right details to the right person.

Export the console to a file, or upload it to mclo.gs after confirmation. Your account name is removed from file paths first. This was the first feature contributed from outside the project.

10

A redesigned panel

The console stays where you can see it.

Servers are tabs, and a server’s tools open from a dock beside its console instead of replacing it. An overview shows every server’s state, players, TPS, memory and last backup, with a Needs attention row for crashes, plugin updates, missing backups and an outdated Java. Settings is one form, and MySQL databases have backups of their own. AI assistants can now read and change plugin configuration files, snapshotting each one first, and update checks cover Purpur, Folia and Advanced Slime Paper.

02 / AFTER 1.0

ON THE ROADMAP

A SHARE SCREEN

Your people.
A considered way in.

A clearer answer to “How do my friends join?” Sharing should be an informed choice, with the level of access made plain.

The planned screen would prompt you to use a whitelist and online mode when going public. It is not available yet; no release date is set.

03 / FURTHER OUT

More ways
to make it yours.

Directions we want to explore,
without promising a delivery date.

01

Easier to find. Easier to install.

A winget manifest to bring installation to the Windows package manager. The roadmap’s proposed command is winget install mcctl; it is not an available installation method yet.

02

Linux, in more shapes.

Linux shipped in 1.1 and grew in 1.2: a .deb and an .rpm for x64 and arm64, and a command-line package for servers with no screen. An AppImage is still to come; it needs its own answers to libfuse2, Ubuntu's AppArmor sandbox, and a path that changes every launch. See platform support →

03

More languages.

Localisation is a future direction. Language support and timing have not been announced.

04 / WHAT KEEPS US FOCUSED

Built for your PC.
And your kind of server.

SpawnLoft is for one person’s machine: servers for friends, family, or plugin testing. The current app needs no account, cloud service, or Docker. Network access stays a deliberate decision.

What isn’t on this roadmap

The desktop roadmap does not include multi-node hosting or a remotely accessible control panel. Exposing a server control panel to another machine also exposes its console. To manage SpawnLoft from elsewhere, remote into the machine that runs it.

Read about local control

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