{"id":1033,"date":"2021-09-28T09:33:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T09:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2021\/09\/28\/5605857-how-to-update-your-minecraft-server-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T04:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:07:18","slug":"5605857-how-to-update-your-minecraft-server-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5605857-how-to-update-your-minecraft-server-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to update your Minecraft Server at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Update your Minecraft server via Game Panel if you&rsquo;re getting an error while connecting, such as Outdated server! I&rsquo;m still on 1.16.2.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">If you haven&rsquo;t set up your server yet, see <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-how-to-create-and-start-a-minecraft-server-at-hostinger\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5605828-how-to-create-and-start-a-minecraft-server-at-hostinger\/\">how to create and start a Minecraft server at Hostinger<\/a>, or check <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-the-hostinger-quick-start-guide-for-minecraft-on-game-panel\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4541961-hostinger-quick-start-guide-for-minecraft-on-game-panel\/\">the Hostinger quick start guide for Minecraft on Game Panel.<\/a><\/div><h2 id=\"h-update-your-server\">Update your server<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">You can easily update it by double-clicking <b>the instance to Manage it:<\/b><\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/09\/0a78791e-642a-43ca-95eb-d79c06369a96.jpg\" alt=\"Minecraft server card showing status Running and a highlighted stop button with other action icons\" data-media-id=\"4173\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Stop the server and click on the <b>Update<\/b> button:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/09\/48d4c937-2013-433a-8cc5-1fc05ff5b868.jpg\" alt=\"Minecraft server Actions menu with the Update button highlighted\" data-media-id=\"4174\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Once the update is done, you can safely start the server again.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">That&rsquo;s it! Now you know how to keep your Minecraft server up to date &#128640;<\/p><p><strong>Related Minecraft server settings<\/strong><\/p><ul>\n<li><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-change-your-minecraft-server-configuration\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5605839-how-to-change-your-minecraft-server-configuration-at-hostinger\/\">Change your Minecraft server configuration<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-change-the-java-version-on-your-minecraft-server\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5605868-how-to-change-the-java-version-on-your-minecraft-server-at-hostinger\/\">Change the Java version on your Minecraft server<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updating your Minecraft server via Game Panel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-panel"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5605857-how-to-update-your-minecraft-server-at-hostinger","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/5605857-como-actualizar-tu-servidor-de-minecraft-en-hostinger","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/5605857-comment-mettre-a-jour-votre-serveur-minecraft-chez-hostinger","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/5605857-bagaimana-cara-update-server-minecraft-di-hostinger","default":0},{"locale":"pt-BR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/5605857-como-atualizar-o-seu-servidor-minecraft-na-hostinger","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14607,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/14607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}