Imagine your VPS provider has a catastrophic failure. Without a portable setup, rebuilding your 400+ custom items could take weeks. With a portable setup, you are back online in 20 minutes.
FROM openjdk:17-jdk-slim WORKDIR /server COPY . /server/ EXPOSE 25565 8080 CMD ["java", "-jar", "paper.jar", "--nogui"] itemsadder portable
To create a truly portable environment, you must abandon the idea of placing folders arbitrarily on your desktop. You need a structured directory. Imagine your VPS provider has a catastrophic failure