Pterodactyl Guides
Need some assistance managing your game panel? Follow these pages for assistance on a variety of topics.
Pterodactyl Terminology - What Do The Terms Mean?
Sometimes the panel can be really confusing when understanding the terminology, so I have include...
Typical Pterodactyl Errors In Console & Solving Them
"Unable to access jarfile xxx.jar" Use. Common. Sense. This is the most irritating one we get as...
Getting A Containers UUID
When asking for support and your panel contains more than one server, it speeds up our assistance...
Adding Additional Ports To Your Pterodactyl Nodes
Head over to your Pterodactyl panel and go to the admin side which is the button in the top right...
Creating A New Server Container On The Panel
To make a new server, you first need to make the allocation for it if you haven't already. Read t...
Adding A Server To Your Proxy
When using BungeeCord or Velocity, you will need to connect your internal servers to your Proxy s...
Configuring A Standalone Plugin To Access A MySQL/MariaDB Database
Plugins such as CoreProtect, GadgetsMenu and more ideally should have their information stored in...
Configuring Centralised Plugins For Linked Database Access
Plugins such as LiteBans and LuckPerms need to use the same database to communicate their informa...
IP Aliasing On Your Panel For Staff Members
If you run a Minecraft network where you have additional staff such as moderators, administrators...
Updating CPU, Disk, RAM & Startup Parameters For A Container
Updating values for your containers so they have more CPU for starting up or running, more RAM fo...
Using Schedules On The Panel For Restarts & Events
Head to your panel and click on the server that you need to make the schedule for then click on t...
Being An Owner Of A Server & How To Change
In Pterodactyl, you may notice that servers are owned by you or another individual, such as one o...
Problems With Plugins Accessing Databases
If you get an error like the below with your plugins connecting to databases: Remember, all plug...
Inviting Additional Staff Members To Your Control Panel
For additional staff such as Developers and Administrators, you can invite them to each server wi...
Changing Docker Containers Images For Your Servers
Pterodactyl runs all servers in containers using software called Docker. Docker uses a system cal...
Adding New Games & Services To Pterodactyl With Nests
Go to your panel and head to the admin side. Click "Nests" bottom left. You will see the fo...
Advanced Procedures & Issue Diagnostics
Contains advanced documentation and solutions to issues for your panel not commonly needed.
Updating Panel To Latest Version (v1.11.7)
This guide will inform you how to update your panel to the latest version of Pterodactyl. The cur...
Wings Daemon Causing Containers To Null Route Or Can't Reach Internet
Sometimes the wings daemon doesn't pass along route configuration properly to the docker containe...
Containers Stopping/Crashing Due To Memory/Process Limit Reached
You might be running into this error when running a large MC network or have a server which has m...
Changing The Panel Domain For Pterodactyl
This guide will be using CloudFlare with nginx installed on the server, with the record proxied u...
Understanding The Node Values - The Disk & RAM Information
Pterodactyl panel was written with hosting companies in mind and not for just the average consume...
Getting Rid Of The “Invalid Java Version” Popup In Pterodactyl
Simple config line. nano /var/www/pterodactyl/resources/scripts/components/server/features/JavaV...
Disabling The Too Large Directory "First 250 Files" Limiter
By default, the panel limits any directory on a server container to 250 files and folders at any ...