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Crafty Controller
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Crafty Controller | Free as in cost and free as in speech | Free |
| Free | free as in cost · free as in speech · no stated server or player limits | Free |
As craftycontrol.com lists them, read 28 Sept 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Facts from Crafty Controller's own pages
- Access controls
- Users can be assigned roles that limit access to selected servers and options such as commands, terminal, logs, backups, files, configuration, and player controls. · docs.craftycontrol.com, 28 Sept 2026
- API
- Crafty publishes an API v2 reference and links an OpenAPI specification for the endpoints. · docs.craftycontrol.com, 20 Oct 2026
- Authentication
- The documentation includes setup guides for TOTP authentication and passkeys. · docs.craftycontrol.com, 20 Oct 2026
- Backups
- The interface includes server backup management and backup downloads. · craftycontrol.com, 20 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- LinkedIn lists the maker as Arcadia Technology, LLC, a privately held software-development company. · linkedin.com, 20 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn reports Arcadia Technology, LLC has 11-50 employees. · linkedin.com, 20 Oct 2026
- Data location
- The maker says Crafty is fully self-hosted and stores data locally on the user's machine. · craftycontrol.com, 20 Oct 2026
- Docker deployment
- Official Docker images are available from GitLab Registry and Docker Hub, with amd64 and arm64 support. · docs.craftycontrol.com, 20 Oct 2026
- Docker security model
- The official container runs as a non-root user and uses root-group permissions for mounted files. · docs.craftycontrol.com, 20 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- The documentation covers installation, reverse proxies, public status pages, user roles, authentication, server management, metrics, webhooks, API usage, troubleshooting and contributing. · docs.craftycontrol.com, 20 Oct 2026
- File manager
- Crafty includes browser-based viewing and editing of server files. · craftycontrol.com, 20 Oct 2026
- Founded
- LinkedIn lists Arcadia Technology, LLC as founded in 2022. · linkedin.com, 20 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Server webhooks can send notifications to Slack, Mattermost, Discord, and Teams; the documentation notes provider rate limits can delay or lose notifications. · docs.craftycontrol.com, 28 Sept 2026
- Licence
- The software is released under GNU General Public License version 3 according to the maker's site. · craftycontrol.com, 20 Oct 2026
- License
- Crafty Controller is released under the GNU General Public License v3, with source available for inspection and modification. · craftycontrol.com, 28 Sept 2026
- Limit: backup capability
- The Docker documentation says Crafty has no built-in backup/restore workflow for the installation itself, so users must back up mounted volumes manually or automate it. · docs.craftycontrol.com, 20 Oct 2026
- Limit: first-login confusion
- Reddit users report confusion and failures around locating or using the generated first-login credentials. · reddit.com, 20 Oct 2026
- Limit: no SFTP
- Reddit users identify the lack of straightforward SFTP access as a recurring limitation for editing server files externally. · reddit.com, 20 Oct 2026
- Limit: startup failures
- A Reddit support thread reports Crafty becoming unreachable after a power event because of a corrupted session lock file; another user reports log flooding and disk exhaustion. · reddit.com, 20 Oct 2026
- Limit: Windows Docker
- The maker warns against Docker Desktop or WSL on Windows because volume-permission problems may irreparably damage Minecraft world chunks. · docs.craftycontrol.com, 20 Oct 2026
- Maker identity
- The official site identifies Arcadia Technology as the organization developing Crafty Controller. · craftycontrol.com, 20 Oct 2026
- Minecraft compatibility
- The documentation says Crafty is tested with Minecraft Java versions 1.8 through the latest release and can run Bedrock executables. · docs.craftycontrol.com, 20 Oct 2026
- Mobile access
- Crafty's mobile app is a progressive web app, and most features require a CA-verifiable certificate; remote access may require port forwarding and a reverse proxy. · docs.craftycontrol.com, 28 Sept 2026
- Mobile delivery
- The mobile experience is a beta Progressive Web App installed from Safari or Chrome rather than a separately documented native store app. · docs.craftycontrol.com, 20 Oct 2026
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