Crafty Controller
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Crafty Controller, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Crafty Controller's own pricing page, checked 28 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Crafty Controller | Free | 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 |
The facts
Each one read from Crafty Controller's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- 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.checked 28 Sep 2026
- API
- Crafty publishes an API v2 reference and links an OpenAPI specification for the endpoints.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Authentication
- The documentation includes setup guides for TOTP authentication and passkeys.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Backups
- The interface includes server backup management and backup downloads.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Data location
- The maker says Crafty is fully self-hosted and stores data locally on the user's machine.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Docker deployment
- Official Docker images are available from GitLab Registry and Docker Hub, with amd64 and arm64 support.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Docker security model
- The official container runs as a non-root user and uses root-group permissions for mounted files.checked 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.checked 20 Oct 2026
- File manager
- Crafty includes browser-based viewing and editing of server files.checked 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.checked 28 Sep 2026
- Licence
- The software is released under GNU General Public License version 3 according to the maker's site.checked 20 Oct 2026
- License
- Crafty Controller is released under the GNU General Public License v3, with source available for inspection and modification.checked 28 Sep 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.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Limit: first-login confusion
- Reddit users report confusion and failures around locating or using the generated first-login credentials.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Limit: no SFTP
- Reddit users identify the lack of straightforward SFTP access as a recurring limitation for editing server files externally.checked 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.checked 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.checked 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.checked 28 Sep 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.checked 20 Oct 2026
The company
- Company legal name
- LinkedIn lists the maker as Arcadia Technology, LLC, a privately held software-development company.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn reports Arcadia Technology, LLC has 11-50 employees.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Founded
- LinkedIn lists Arcadia Technology, LLC as founded in 2022.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Maker identity
- The official site identifies Arcadia Technology as the organization developing Crafty Controller.checked 20 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Limit: Windows Docker
- The maker warns against Docker Desktop or WSL on Windows because volume-permission problems may irreparably damage Minecraft world chunks.checked 20 Oct 2026
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