Grounds documentation

Build Minecraft workloads, deploy the Grounds platform stack, and reference the APIs, plugins, and engineering conventions.

Grounds helps teams ship Minecraft plugins, game modes, services, and supporting platform components into managed Kubernetes environments.

Start here

Build for Grounds

Push plugins, game modes, and services from Gradle to preview or dev environments.

Deploy

Run the platform stack with maintained containers, Helm charts, and identity integrations.

Reference

Browse APIs, plugin SDKs, convention plugins, and engineering standards.

Quickstart

Install the CLI, sign in with your Grounds Account, and make your first push.

Common paths

Pick the page that matches the work in front of you:

CLI installation

Install or update the grounds command.

Gradle plugin setup

Wire gg.grounds.push into the module that produces your deployable JAR.

Containers

Use the maintained runtime images for Paper, Velocity, and development containers.

Plugins SDK

Integrate with Config System and Agones runtime helpers.

MCP access

You can also access this documentation through the MCP server at https://docs.grounds.gg/mcp.