Minecraft | Installing Fabric Server and fabric API

Installing Fabric can be a bit confusing, as it involves two main components: the Fabric server and the Fabric API mod. Follow the guide below to easily install Fabric and Fabric API.

1. Stop your server.
2. Visit https://fabricmc.net/use/server/ or https://mcjarfiles.com/ and download the latest executable server .jar file.
3. Upload the downloaded file to your server's root directory.

4. Delete any other jar files in the root directory, such as minecraft_server.jar.

5. Go to the command line manager, click on Custom Command Line, and then click the + New button.

6. Give the command line a description. This can be whatever you want it to be, so we will just call ours Fabric.

7. In the Jar File drop-down, you should see your fabric-server-mc.1.18.2-loader.0.13.3-launcher.0.10.2.jar. Choose that and click Save.

8. Once it's saved, you will need to enable it. This will bind the command line to the server. You can simply click on the Select button, and this will enable the command line.

9. Go back to the main page of your Minecraft server and start the server.
10. Go to the web console and verify that Fabric is downloading and preparing.
11. When you see Query running in your server's web console, you can stop the server.
12. Download Fabric API from https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/fabric-api.
13. Move the downloaded jar file into the mods folder.

14. Start the server.
15. Verify that the installation is complete.

Once the server starts with Fabric API you will see the below:

Common issues

If the server fails to start, it is likely due to the server's Java version being set to automatic, and some jars cannot be detected automatically.

To resolve this, you need to set the Java version according to the version of Minecraft you are running. You can follow this guide on how to change your Java version..